Zoltán Verrasztó (born 15 March 1956 in

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) is a former

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and medley

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from

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. He won two medals at the

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. Verrasztó claimed silver in the men's 200 m backstroke, and bronze in the men's 400 m individual medley. Apart from that he twice became world champion in the 200 m backstroke during the 1970s. His children,

Evelyn Verrasztó Evelyn Verrasztó (born 17 July 1989) is a Hungarian Swimming (sport), swimmer, who competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics in Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004, Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008, Swimming at the ...

and

Dávid Verrasztó Dávid Verrasztó (born 22 August 1988) is a Hungarian competitive swimmer. He competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, in the 200 and 400 m individual medleys. His father and coach, Zoltán Verrasztó, and his sister, Evelyn Verraszt ...

are also Olympic swimmers. He coached them to become European championship gold medalists.

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