Béla Bartalos (born July 6, 1948, in

Polgárdi Polgárdi is a town in Fejér county, Hungary, reportedly the site where the Sevso Treasure was discovered. Geography Polgárdi is located at an elevation of about 144 metres, about 12 kilometres northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in weste ...

) is a Hungarian former

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

goalkeeper who competed on three

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and as many

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. His first major tournament was the 1972 Olympic Games, where he played five matches for the Hungarian team, which took the eighth place. Four years later on the

1976 Olympic Games 1976 Olympics refers to both: *The 1976 Winter Olympics, which were originally to be held in Denver, United States, but relocated to Innsbruck, Austria *The 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of t ...

he finished sixth, having played on all five games. In 1980 he was a member of the Hungarian team once again, and gained the fourth place. He played on all six matches of the Olympic tournament. He also participated on three World Championships between 1974 and 1982, achieving his best result in 1974 with a seventh place.

Awards

Hungarian Handballer of the Year The Hungarian Handballer of the Year award is an annual prize, which is given to the Hungarian handballer who is considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. Presented by the Hungarian Handball Federation since 1964, the ...

: 1979

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* * 1948 births Living people People from Polgárdi Hungarian male handball players Olympic handball players for Hungary Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Fejér County Tatabánya KC players 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-handball-bio-stub