Australian Institute of Sport coaches - Istvan Gorgenyi

István Görgényi (born 2 November 1946) is a Hungarian former

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player who won a silver medal at the

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and coached the Australian women's national water polo team to the gold medal at the

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Playing career

Gorgenyi represented Hungary as a player 96 times and was a member of teams that won the silver medal at

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, won the gold medal at the 1973 World Championships, the silver medal at the 1975 World Championships and won the gold medal at the 1974

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. He retired at 36 and took up coaching 18 months later.

Coaching career

From 1984 to 1990, he was Head Coach of Ujpest TE Sporting Club in the Hungarian National League from 1984 to 1990. Results during this period were: first in 1986, second in 1989 and third in 1987 and semi-finalist in 1986 European Cup of Champions. From 1991 to 1994, he was Head Coach of CACEL Nice Water Polo Club in the French National League in 1991. Results during this period were: first in 1992, 1993, 1994 and second in 1991. Gorgenyi was appointed head coach of its Victorian Intensive Training Centre in 1994 and national development coach in 1996. He became national junior coach in 1997. On 1 June 1998, Gorgenyi, was appointed Australian women's national water polo team Head Coach and the inaugural Australian Institute of Sport women's water polo program Head Coach. Gorgenyi coached the Australian team to win the inaugural women's water polo gold medal at the

. Gorgenyi retired in December 2004 and was replaced by Greg McFadden as National Head Coach and AIS Head Coach in January 2005. In 2019, he was inducted into the

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. Major results of the Australian team during his period as Head Coach of the Australian team:

Olympic Games

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— ''1st place'' * 2004 — ''4th place''

FINA World Championship

* 2001 — ''5th place'' * 2003 — ''7th place''

FINA World Cup

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— ''2nd place'' * 2002 — ''6th place'' In 2005, Gorgenyi set up a consultancy to promote his 'Hunting Territory ' philosophy - "a form of behaviour by which a player or more commonly a small group of players form ownerships of parts of the team process, often subconsciously, and, disdaining the broad collective interest, ultimately cause it to break down."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gorgenyi, Istvan 1946 births Living people Hungarian male water polo players Olympic water polo players of Hungary Water polo players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in water polo Hungarian water polo coaches Australian water polo coaches Australian Institute of Sport coaches Australian Olympic coaches Australia women's national water polo team coaches Water polo coaches at the 2000 Summer Olympics Water polo coaches at the 2004 Summer Olympics