András Székely
Appearance
![]() ASzékely at the 1931 European Championships | |
Personal information | |
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Born | 5 March 1910[1] Tatabánya, Hungary |
Died | 25 January 1943 (aged 32) Chernihiv, Ukraine |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Club | Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest |
Medal record |
András Székely (5 March 1910 – 25 January 1943) was a Hungarian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He won a European title in this event in 1931.
Székely was Jewish. He was killed by the Nazis in 1943 at a forced labor camp in Chernihiv, Ukraine.[2][3][4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Olimpiai éremszerzők tragédiája a Donnál: Petschauer Attila és Székely András, mint zsidó munkaszolgálatosok a magyar 2. hadseregnél / Tragedy of Olympic Medalists at the River Don: Attila Petschauer and Zoltán Székely as Jewish Labour Workers at the Hungarian 2nd Army(Seregszemle 2016/1.pp.108-114) (in Hungarian)
- ^ Kay Schaffer & Sidonie Smith (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. p. 61. ISBN 0-8135-2820-8.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "András Székely". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
External links
[edit]- András Székely Olympic medals and stats at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 5, 2016)(Positional parameters ignored)
- András Székely at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)
- András Székely at World Aquatics
- András Székely at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1910 births
- 1943 deaths
- Jewish swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Hungary
- Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
- Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust
- Swimmers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Hungarian male freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian civilians killed in World War II
- Hungarian World War II forced labourers
- Hungarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Hungarian swimming biography stubs