Mrs. Lajos Kisgyörgy Née: Magda Fedor (14 January 1914 – 8 December 2017) was a Hungarian sports shooter, 123-time national champion, multiple World Championships and European Championships medalist.

Early life

Born in Pinkaszentkirály (today part of Vasalja) in 1914 as the fifth child of the family, they soon moved to nearby

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, where Fedor grew up and studied in the local girls' gymnasium. During her school years she practiced figure skating and tennis; being a talented tennis player she was signed by local club ''Szombathelyi SE'', where she played alongside

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, who later won the

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Career

In 1938 she married

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Lajos Kisgyörgy, whom she met in the tennis club. The couple first moved to

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, subsequently they settled in

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. Kisgyörgy, an outstanding

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of his time and later a renowned shooting coach, introduced sport shooting to Fedor, who pursued a competitive career from 1939. Coached by her husband, Fedor competed till 1979, during which period she won 123 Hungarian national championship titles in different disciplines and positions, including 68 single victories and a triumph in the men's field. Additionally, she set a number of national records. Fedor also participated at several

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and

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; she collected two silver medals and six bronze medals at European Championships and one silver and two bronze medals at World events. She never had the chance to take part at the Olympic Games, since sport shooting for women was introduced to the Olympic program only in 1984. After retiring from competitive sport, Fedor became a shooting coach. Among the clubs she coached are ''KSI SE'', ''Zalka SE'' – the club of the National Military Technical College – and ''Óbuda Lövész Egyesület''; most recently, aged over 90, she has been coaching the shooters of ''Igazságügyi Minisztérium Duna Lövészklubja''.

Personal life

Fedor has two well-known nicknames. Being a late child, she was called at home simply ''Baba'' (Baby), that turned to ''Baba néni'' (Aunt Baby) for her adulthood and is known under this name among the shooters. In the absence of her husband she often held the shooting practice of the Hungarian pentathlon national team, where she got the nickname ''Gyuri néni'' (Aunt Georgie), a transformation of her husband's nickname ''Gyuri bácsi'' (Uncle Georgie). Fedor's daughter, Magda is an all-round sportsperson who won national titles in alpine skiing, shooting and tennis; her son, Lajos Jr. also continued the family tradition and became a sport shooter. Her grandchild,

Gergely Kisgyörgy Gergely Kisgyörgy (born 8 March 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. Kisgyörgy was twice the runner-up at the Hungarian Tennis Championships, in 1999 and 2001, but was more successful as a doubles player during his career ...

is a professional tennis player and multiple

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winner in doubles. He also played for the

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, winning 16 of his 24 singles rubbers and 7 out of his 13 doubles matches. Fedor died on 8 December 2017 at the age of 103.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fedor, Magda 1914 births 2017 deaths Hungarian centenarians Hungarian female sport shooters Sportspeople from Vas County Women centenarians 20th-century Hungarian women 21st-century Hungarian women

Early life

Career

Personal life

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