István Messzi was a Hungarian
weightlifter
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...
. He won a Silver medal in the
82.5 kg class at the
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...
in
Seoul
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.
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1961 births
1991 deaths
Olympic weightlifters for Hungary
Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Hungarian male weightlifters
20th-century Hungarian people
People from Kiskunfélegyháza
Sportspeople from Bács-Kiskun County
Friendship Games medalists
Road incident deaths in Hungary
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