Olympic gold medalist hungarian water polo team (1932, Los Angeles)

Miklós Sárkány (15 August 1908 – 20 December 1998) was a Hungarian

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Olympic gold medalist This article lists the individuals who have won at least four gold medals at the Olympic Games or at least three gold medals in individual events. List of most Olympic gold medals over career This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalis ...

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He competed in the

1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held duri ...

and the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

. He was born in

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. In 1932 he was part of the Hungarian team that won the gold medal, though he played only one match. Four years later he again won the gold medal with the Hungarian team, playing three matches at the historic 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, sponsored by the Nazi government. Sárkány was

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and was one of around thirteen Jewish athletes who won medals.Many Hungarian Jews shared their fellow citizens' passion for sport and viewed participation as a means of assimilation. In the 1930s, however, the antisemitism of the fascist, pro-Nazi Hungarian government pervaded some fields of sport. In September of 1935, Nazi Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws, having boycotted Jewish businesses forcing many to close, the laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, barred them from many professions such as theatre, law, and medicine, removed their right to vote or hold office, greatly limited their ability to attend public schools, Universities or obtain doctorates, and prevented them from being treated at Municipal hospitals. He died on 20 December 1998 in

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. He was cremated at

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, where his ashes are buried. His 1932 Olympic team member Sándor Ivády died one day later.

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* 1908 births 1998 deaths Hungarian male water polo players Hungarian Jews Water polo players at the 1932 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary in water polo Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics Burials at Feuerhalle Simmering Water polo players from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-waterpolo-bio-stub

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