SOCCER PLAYER

Zoltán Halmay

1881 - 1956

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Zoltán Imre Ödön Halmay de Erdőtelek (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈzoltaːn ˈhɒlmɒi]; 18 June 1881 – 20 May 1956) was a Hungarian Olympic swimmer. He competed in four Olympics (1900 – 1908), winning the following medals: 1900: silver (200 m, 4000 m freestyle), bronze (1000 m freestyle) 1904: gold (50yd, 100yd freestyle) 1906: gold (4×250 m freestyle relay), silver (100 m freestyle) (these games are now not officially recognized by the IOC) 1908: silver (100 m freestyle; 4 × 200 m freestyle relay) Zoltán Halmay, who was a two-time Olympic champion, was the most successful sportsman in freestyle swimming. In 1904 he won the 50 and 100 yards at the St. Louis Games and in 1906 he was a member of the 4×250 m relay team that won the gold medal at the Intercalated Games. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zoltán Halmay is the 1,499th most popular soccer player (up from 1,904th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 138th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Slovak Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Zoltán Halmay ranks 1,499 out of 21,273. Before him are Takashi Umezawa, Sven Tumba, John Aston Sr., Kees Kist, Pietro Ferraris, and Juan Manuel Asensi. After him are Nils Axelsson, Luis Fernández, Shunichiro Okano, Václav Ježek, Albert Batteux, and Valdo Filho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Zoltán Halmay ranks 125. Before him are Madge Syers, Vlas Chubar, Harry Hillman, Jānis Balodis, Ludwig Kaas, and Matrona Nikonova. After him are Daniel Jones, Max Weber, Heinrich Burger, Edgar Leonard, Gunnar Nordström, and Vilhelm Buhl. Among people deceased in 1956, Zoltán Halmay ranks 116. Before him are Meghnad Saha, Vladimir Obruchev, Jacques Moeschal, Walther Kossel, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, and Mikhail Tereshchenko. After him are Leo Baeck, Tommy Johnson, Aino Kallas, Corrado Alvaro, Ágnes Esterházy, and John Geiger.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Zoltán Halmay ranks 116 out of 418. Before him are Juraj Herz (1934), János Pálffy (1664), Frederick Stafford (1928), Maroš Šefčovič (1966), Géza von Radványi (1907), and Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856). After him are Václav Ježek (1923), Pavel Peter Gojdič (1888), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Vladimír Weiss (1939), Viliam Široký (1902), and Jaroslav Pollák (1947).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among soccer players born in Slovakia, Zoltán Halmay ranks 14. Before him are Andrej Kvašňák (1936), Ján Pivarník (1947), Marek Hamšík (1987), Štefan Čambal (1908), Pavol Molnár (1936), and Dušan Uhrin (1943). After him are Václav Ježek (1923), Vladimír Weiss (1939), Jaroslav Pollák (1947), Marián Masný (1950), Vladimír Weiss (1964), and Ján Kozák (1954).

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