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Lajos Gönczy

1881 - 1915

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Lajos Gönczy (24 February 1882 – 3 December 1915) was a Hungarian high jumper. He participated in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis and the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens and won two medals. Gönczy was born in Szeged, he was educated in his local high school and this is where his talent started for athletics, after high school he attended the Pázmány Péter Catholic University to read law, and while there he joined the Budapest University Athletics Club, Between 1900 and 1904, Gönczy held four national high jump records, aged 19 years old Gönczy traveled to Paris for the 1900 Summer Olympics, in the high jump there was no qualification it was straight to the final, Gönczy jumped 1.75 metres to finish third behind Irving Baxter and Patrick Leahy to earn the bronze medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lajos Gönczy is the 1,163rd most popular athlete (down from 1,013th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 629th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Hungarian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lajos Gönczy ranks 1,163 out of 6,025. Before him are Valeri Vasiliev, Wilson Kipketer, Lars Jørgen Madsen, Jorge Llopart, Frank Rühle, and Paul Castanet. After him are Joseph Dempsey, Matti Sippala, Shunpei Uto, Danas Pozniakas, Vladimir Morozov, and Otto Fickeisen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Lajos Gönczy ranks 192. Before him are Ludwik Rajchman, George Finnegan, Ricardo Samper, Walter Krueger, Polydore Veirman, and Gösta Åsbrink. After him are Oscar De Cock, Abdulla Shaig, Gunnar Setterwall, Jetze Doorman, Alice Catherine Evans, and Aleksandr Gerasimov. Among people deceased in 1915, Lajos Gönczy ranks 112. Before him are Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, George Nares, Kálmán Széll, Édouard Vaillant, Désiré Charnay, and Nikolay Umov. After him are Pyotr Durnovo, Greene Vardiman Black, Bagha Jatin, Béla Las-Torres, Daniel Giraud Elliot, and Antonio Flores Jijón.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Lajos Gönczy ranks 635 out of 1,077. Before him are Sándor Mátrai (1932), Sándor Bíró (1911), Márton Homonnai (1906), László Raffinsky (1905), István Balogh (1912), and István Bilek (1932). After him are Mihály Csokonai (1773), Victor Varconi (1891), Béla Békessy (1875), László Kovács (1933), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), and Márta Sebestyén (1957).

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Among ATHLETES In Hungary

Among athletes born in Hungary, Lajos Gönczy ranks 46. Before him are István Rózsavölgyi (1929), György Kárpáti (1935), László Rajcsányi (1907), Sándor Rozsnyói (1930), István Barta (1895), and Márton Homonnai (1906). After him are Béla Békessy (1875), Ödön Bodor (1882), György Sarlós (1940), Imre Rajczy (1911), István Hevesi (1931), and Péter Marót (1945).

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