Judit Temes (; 10 October 1930 – 11 August 2013)"Elhunyt az olimpiai bajnok Temes Judit"
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'' (Retrieved on August 12, 2013) was a Hungarian

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

and Olympic champion. Temes, who was

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

, was born in

Sopron Sopron (; german: Ödenburg, ; sl, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century When the area that is today Western Hungary was a province of the Roman Empire, a ...

. She competed at the 1952 Olympic Games in

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, where she received a bronze medal in 100 m freestyle, and a gold medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay."1952 Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Swimming"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on May 4, 2008) After retirement she pursued a medical career and earned her medical degree in 1955 from the Budapest University of Medicine. Later on she worked for the university pathology department and cancer research institute and then headed the St. Elizabeth Hospital Department of Pathology.

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