Judit Turóczy (also known as ''Korach''; born March 11, 1948, in Budapest) is a former

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from Hungary, who competed in three consecutive

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for her native country, starting in

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

.Judit Turóczy
www.sports-reference.com. retrieved 2011-07-07 Her best individual result was eighth, achieved at the 1968 Olympic Games in

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. With the Hungarian 4×100 metres freestyle relay team she was fourth at the 1964 and the 1972 Games and fifth in 1968. At the

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she won two silver medals.EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN)
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1948 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Hungary Hungarian female freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Budapest European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 20th-century Hungarian women 21st-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-swimming-bio-stub