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Ernő Kolczonay

1953 - 2009

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Ernő Kolczonay (15 May 1953 – 3 October 2009) was a Hungarian épée fencer, who won two Olympic silver medals in the Épée competitions. He was a member of the Hungarian fencing team that won the world championship in Hamburg, 1978. He was runner-up in the 1979 world championship (Melbourne) and the 1982 European Championship (Mödling). He was the fencer of the Hungarian club Budapesti Honved where he reached his most outstanding results. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernő Kolczonay is the 2,519th most popular athlete (up from 2,765th in 2019), the 843rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 857th in 2019) and the 101st most popular Hungarian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ernő Kolczonay ranks 2,519 out of 6,025Before him are Oksen Mirzoyan, Ellen Fiedler, Monika Pflug, Marilyn White, Frank Spellman, and Ellen van Langen. After him are Anita Włodarczyk, Wang Yan, Frank Shakespeare, Ricco Groß, Kenny Harrison, and Hideaki Tomiyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Ernő Kolczonay ranks 606Before him are Phil Davis, Ignacio Flores, Bess Armstrong, Tatyana Providokhina, Gerhard Thiele, and Jeff Kober. After him are Nora Aunor, Jerzy Rybicki, John Bellamy Foster, Chen Danqing, Jimmy McCulloch, and Yang Jung-mo. Among people deceased in 2009, Ernő Kolczonay ranks 388Before him are Andrea Mead Lawrence, Billy Powell, José Carlos da Costa Araújo, Ellie Greenwich, Erich Kunzel, and Billy Mays. After him are Jane Randolph, Ed McMahon, Leo Rwabwogo, Philip Carey, Horton Foote, and Stanley Middleton.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ernő Kolczonay ranks 843 out of 1,077Before him are Ilona Massey (1910), Zsolt Baumgartner (1981), György Nébald (1956), Imre Bujdosó (1959), Péter Fülöp Kocsis (1963), and Péter Márki-Zay (1972). After him are László Cseh (1985), Andrea Gyarmati (1954), Csaba Hegedűs (1948), Gábor Kósa (1971), Tibor Komáromi (1964), and Judit Varga (1980).

Among ATHLETES In Hungary

Among athletes born in Hungary, Ernő Kolczonay ranks 101Before him are Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky (1936), Zoltán Sztanity (1954), István Szívós (1948), István Szívós (1920), Tamás Wichmann (1948), and István Timár (1940). After him are Attila Horváth (1967), Adrián Annus (1973), Balázs Kiss (1972), Attila Ábrahám (1967), Bertalan Hajtós (1965), and Ildikó Mincza-Nébald (1969).