Dénes Birkás, also known as ''Deján Bikár'' (13 March 1907 – 10 July 1996), was a Hungarian

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

and

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

. He was born in

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. He played at the

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and

1931 ice hockey World Championships The 1931 Ice Hockey World Championships was the fifth World Championship, an annual international ice hockey tournament. It took place between 1 and 8 February 1931 in Krynica, Poland. The tournament was won by Canada who were represented by the ...

. He would later coach the Hungarian national ice hockey team in 1959–1960. In 1936 he was a member of the Hungarian team which was eliminated in the group stage of the Olympic tournament. He played all three matches as halfback.

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Dénes Birkás' profile at Sports Reference.comDénes Birkás' profile at the Hungarian Olympic Committee
1907 births 1996 deaths Hungarian male field hockey players Hungarian ice hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Hungary Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Ice hockey people from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-fieldhockey-bio-stub