Tibor Cservenyák (born 8 August 1948, in

Szolnok Szolnok (; also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, in the heart of the Great Hungarian Plain, wh ...

) is a Hungarian former

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

player who competed in the

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and in the

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Biography

From the age of ten he played water polo for Szolnoki Dózsa, from 1973 for Újpesti Dózsa, and then from 1983 for Volán Sports Club for two years. Between 1970 and 1984 he played 134 times in the Hungarian national team. He was a member of the 1976 Summer Olympics, and won the title of Olympic Champion for the Hungarian team in Montreal. In 1975, he graduated at the Budapest University of Technology as a

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- website of BME and then was since 1976 water polo coach at the

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. After this, he settled in Switzerland, where worked as a chemist. After his retirement, he was coach in Solothurn, Switzerland from 1984 to 1990 and then captain of the Switzerland men's national water polo team until 1992. His daughter Viktória, now Countess of Bardi, is the wife of

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* 1948 births Living people Hungarian male water polo players Water polo goalkeepers Olympic water polo players for Hungary Water polo players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in water polo Sportspeople from Szolnok Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian people 21st-century Hungarian people

Tibor Tibor is a masculine given name found throughout Europe. There are several explanations for the origin of the name: * from Latin name Tiberius, which means "from Tiber", Tiber being a river in Rome. * in old Slavic languages, Tibor means "sacred pl ...

World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo {{Hungary-waterpolo-bio-stub

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