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Imre Polyák

1932 - 2010

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Imre Polyák (16 April 1932 – 15 November 2010) was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Hungary. He competed in the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won three silver and one gold medal. He won the world title in 1955, 1958 and 1962, and placed second in 1961 and 1963. Nationally Polyák won 12 Hungarian titles and was named Sportsman of the Year in 1958 and 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Imre Polyák is the 520th most popular athlete (up from 648th in 2019), the 474th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 530th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Hungarian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Imre Polyák ranks 520 out of 6,025. Before him are Gustavo Marzi, Armas Toivonen, John Winter, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Alexander Ragulin, and Tamara Tyshkevich. After him are Anatoly Alyabyev, Kjell Bäckman, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Arvo Askola, William Gilmore, and František Pospíšil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Imre Polyák ranks 288. Before him are Edgar Reitz, Tormod Knutsen, Luis Ayala, Medea Abrahamyan, Antti Hyvärinen, and Michel Leblond. After him are Sven Lindqvist, Josef Musil, Edmund Wickham Lawrence, Lajos Csordás, Sígfrid Gràcia, and John Drew Barrymore. Among people deceased in 2010, Imre Polyák ranks 236. Before him are Jacqueline de Romilly, Gheorghe Apostol, Marie Osborne Yeats, Geoffrey Burbidge, Zoltán Varga, and Ronald Neame. After him are Robert Byrd, Dixie Carter, Nelly Landry, Jamie Gillis, Stephen J. Cannell, and Abbey Lincoln.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Imre Polyák ranks 474 out of 1,077. Before him are Zoltán Varga (1945), Jenő Jandó (1952), Alexandre Trauner (1906), Edith Bruck (1931), József Tóth (1929), and Yuriy Venelin (1802). After him are Ilona Novák (1925), Iván Menczel (1941), Ádám Fischer (1949), János Farkas (1942), Franciska Gaal (1903), and Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (1867).

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Among ATHLETES In Hungary

Among athletes born in Hungary, Imre Polyák ranks 21. Before him are Gergely Kulcsár (1934), László Berti (1875), Tamás Mendelényi (1936), Imre Harangi (1913), Ödön Földessy (1929), and Olivér Halassy (1909). After him are Gyula Török (1938), Richard Thompson (null), Ervin Mészáros (1877), Tibor Tatai (1944), György Bródy (1908), and István Szondy (1925).

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