Miklós Sárkány

Miklós Sárkány
Personal information
Born(1908-08-15)15 August 1908
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died20 December 1998(1998-12-20) (aged 90)
Vienna, Austria
Sport
SportWater polo
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
1932 Los Angeles Team competition
1936 Berlin Team competition

Miklós Sárkány (15 August 1908 – 20 December 1998) was a Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.

Career

He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest.

In 1932 he was part of the Hungarian team that won the gold medal, though he played only one match.

Four years later he again won the gold medal with the Hungarian team, playing three matches at the historic 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, sponsored by the Nazi government. Sárkány was Jewish and was one of around thirteen Jewish athletes who won medals.[1][2] Many Hungarian Jews shared their fellow citizens' passion for sport and viewed participation as a means of assimilation. In the 1930s, however, the antisemitism of the fascist, pro-Nazi Hungarian government pervaded some fields of sport.

He died on 20 December 1998 in Vienna, Austria. He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where his ashes are buried. His 1932 Olympic team member Sándor Ivády died one day later.

See also

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871.
  2. ^ "The Nazi Olympics (Berlin 1936)—Jewish Athletes; Olympic Medalists". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved July 16, 2015.


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