- János Garay (fencer)
János Garay (
February 23 ,1889 -March 5 ,1945 ) [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:wrrOYSY7OEYJ:www.mob.hu/cgi-bin/index.php%3Ffile%3Dbelso/memorian.html+Janos+Garay+mauthausen+-1812+-poem+-poet&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us] was a Hungarian fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s. [http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=19]Fencing career
Hungarian Championship
Garay was the Hungarian national sabre champion in 1923.
European and World Championships
In 1925 and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European
Sabre Championshipgold medal .He also he won a team sabre gold medal at the 1930 European Championships. The European Championships were predecessor to the World Championships, first held in 1937.
Olympics
He won
silver medal for teamsaber at the 1924Paris Olympics . He also won thebronze medal in the individual saber, winning 5 of 7 matches in the finals, including a victory over fellow Hungarian (and teammate)Zoltan Ozoray Schenker .He also won a
gold medal in team saber at the 1928Amsterdam Games.The Hungarian team, which included fellow
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame rs,Attila Petschauer andSándor Gombos , went undefeated in the competition. They defeated the United States (14-2) and Great Britain (13-3) in the elimination round, beat Germany (12-4) and France (12-4) in the semifinals, and in the finals beat Poland (14-2) and Italy (9-7). Garay won 10 of his 12 bouts.Concentration Camp and Death
He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary after
Germany occupied the country in 1944.Garay was killed shortly thereafter, in 1945, in the
Mauthausen concentration camp inAustria , shortly before the end ofWorld War II .Hall of Fame
Garay, who was
Jewish , was inducted in 1990 into TheInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame , Wingate Institute,Netanya, Israel . [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:gSvcdKpLtDAJ:www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zcd078.htm+%22jewish+fencer%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1] [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:j0anKn7BP20J:www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JanosGaray.htm+%22janos+garay%22+gold&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1]Links
* [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zcd078.htm Holocaust Museum bio]
* [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JanosGaray.htm Jewish Sports bio]
* [http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=19 Jews in Sports bio]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=RA1-PA72&lpg=RA1-PA72&dq=%22jewish+sports+legends%22+fencing+axelrod&source=web&ots=37b0EtiD5Z&sig=F8kRY7nCTjoLbYJxHU5eZpy3tDU#PRA1-PA73,M1 Jewish Sports Legends bio]
* [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:fa550NVTYvAJ:www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv6n1/JOHv6n1h.pdf+Janos+Garay+mauthausen+-1812+-poem+-poet&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us "Jewish Olympic Champions; Victims of the Holocaust]
* [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:MUzX5NbegywJ:www.ujc.org/content_display.html%3FArticleID%3D122636+Janos+Garay+-1812+-poem+-poet&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=44&gl=us "The Olympics and the Holocaust," 2004]
* [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:pK1YjeDoD9sJ:www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501h.pdf+Janos+Garay+1944+-1812+-poem+-poet&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us "The Nazi Olympics"]
* [http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:ZiCr8-C6lUoJ:memoria.comune.rimini.it/binary/rimini_memoria/lezioni/The%2520Nazi%2520Olympic%2520Victims.1169543463.pdf+Janos+Garay+1944+-1812+-poem+-poet&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=15&gl=us "The Nazi Olympic Victims"]
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