János Garay (23 February 1889 – 21 April 1945) was a Jewish Hungarian fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s.

Personal

Garay had two children: Jànos, a water polo player and Mària, a swimmer. He was also father-in-law to Valéria Gyenge.

Fencing career

Hungarian Championship

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European and World Championships

In 1925 and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European

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Championship gold medal. He won the team sabre gold medal at the 1930 European Championships.

Olympics

He won

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for team

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at the 1924 Paris

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. He also won a gold medal in team saber at the 1928

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Games.

Concentration Camp and Death

He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary to a concentration camp after Germany occupied the country in 1944. Garay was killed shortly thereafter, in 1945, in the

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in Austria, shortly before the end of

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Hall of Fame

Garay, who was

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, was inducted in 1990 into The

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, Wingate Institute,

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References

External links

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Holocaust Museum bio

Jews in Sports bio

Jewish Sports Legends bio

"Jewish Olympic Champions; Victims of the Holocaust

"The Nazi Olympics"

"The Nazi Olympic Victims"
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