Miklós Sárkány

Olympic medal record
Men's Water Polo
Gold	1932 Los Angeles	Team competition
Gold	1936 Berlin	Team competition

Miklós Sárkány (August 15, 1908 – December 20, 1998) was a Hungarian water polo player.

Career

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

In 1932 he was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal. He played one match.

Four years later he won again the gold medal with the Hungarian team. At the Berlin Games he played three matches.

Sárkány was Jewish; he was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.^[1][2]

He died in Vienna, Austria.

See also

• List of select Jewish water polo players

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ "The Nazi Olympics (Berlin 1936)—Jewish Athletes; Olympic Medalists". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=jewish_athletes_medals&lang=en. Retrieved February 7, 2011. 

External links

• dataOlympics profile

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Name	Sarkany, Miklos
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Date of birth	August 15, 1908
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Date of death	December 20, 1998
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