Ceglédi Vasutas Sportegyesület, commonly referred to as Ceglédi VSE is a Hungarian
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
based in
Cegléd
Cegléd (; german: Zieglet) is a city in Pest County, Pest county, Hungary, approximately southeast of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Name
The name of the town is of disputed origin. The name may be derived from the word "szeglet" (meaning "co ...
, Pest County. It consists of multiple departments, namely
football
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,
athletics
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Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
and
wrestling
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. The team's colours are
yellow
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and
blue
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.
History
On 3 March 1935, Ceglédi Vasutas Sportegyesület ("Cegléd Railway Sports Association") was established on the initiative of railway station chief Dr. Gyula Stankaai, and officers Kornél Ginovszky and József Gámán. The adopted statutes set out the objectives of the new club, intended to further bring together the railway workers through sports. In the first year, 153 regular railwaymen and 98 family members became members of the club.
Members of the club would excel in various sports, with club
wrestler
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József Gál
József Gál (20 April 1918 – 2 February 2003) was a Hungarian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle lightweight at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 19 ...
1952 Summer Olympics
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. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, club
pentathlon
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athlete
István Szondy
István Szondy (29 December 1925 – 31 May 2017) was a Hungarian modern pentathlete, horse rider and Olympic champion who competed at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics."1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Modern Pentathlon" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 27 September 2008) In recent times, wrestler
Tamás Lőrincz
Tamás Lőrincz (born 20 December 1986) is a Hungarian wrestler. He won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Greco-Roman 66 kg event and a gold medal in the men's 77 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics
The , offic ...
from the club won the silver medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in the Greco-Roman 66 kg event and a gold medal in the men's 77 kg event at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
held in Tokyo, Japan.
In the footballing department, Ceglédi VSE has experienced modest success, achieving promotion in the 2006–07 season as champions of its third division season.