Márta Balogh (; 2 March 1943 – 3 October 2019) was a Hungarian international

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player, multiple Hungarian champion and Hungarian cup winner, and gold medalist of the 1965 World Championship.

Achievements

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

: **''Winner'': 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

: **''Winner'': 1963, 1968 *

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Winner'': 1965

Personal life

Balogh was born in

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. She was married to two-times Olympic champion water polo player Kálmán Markovits. They had one child,

László László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav Vladislav ( (', '); , ; Russian language, Russian, Ukrainian language, ...

, who became the youngest Hungarian champion in tennis in 1986 at the age of 16, and later had a successful career as a sports executive, being the chairman of

Vasas SC Vasas SC () is a Hungarian sports club based in Budapest. Members of the ''Hungarian Union of Iron Workers'' founded the club as ''Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja'', the "Sport Club of Iron and Metal Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club ...

and a member of

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References

* Kozák, Péter (1995). ''Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?, vol. I. (A–H)''. Szekszárd: Babits Kiadó. . 1943 births 2019 deaths Handball players from Budapest Hungarian female handball players 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen 21st-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-handball-bio-stub