Attila Vári

Attila Vári (born 26 February 1976 in Budapest), nicknamed Doki, is a Hungarian water polo player, who played on the gold medal squads at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics.

The native form of this personal name is Vári Attila. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Attila Vári
Personal information
Born (1976-02-26) 26 February 1976
Budapest, Hungary[1]
Nickname Doki
Nationality Hungarian
Height 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Position Wing
Handedness Right
Youth career
1987–0000
 KSI
Senior clubs
Years Team
0000–1994
 KSI
1994–2002
 Vasas-Plaket
2002–2009
 Domino-Honvéd
2009–2011
 PVSK-Füszért
National team
Years Team
1995–2006
  Hungary
Medal record
Men's water polo
Representing  Hungary
2000 Sydney Team competition
2004 Athens Team competition
World Championships
2003 Barcelona Team competition
2005 Montréal Team competition
FINA World Cup
1999 Sydney Team competition
2002 Belgrade Team competition

Vári began his athletic career with modern pentathlon but later switched to water polo. He made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1997.[2]

Attila's back hand shot from ten meters in the 2000 Olympic finals against Russia was probably the most unexpected and spectacular goal anyone ever scored in an Olympic final game in water polo.

Vári was elected into the presidium of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) in May 2017. He was elected President of the Hungarian Water Polo Federation (MVLSZ) in September 2018, replacing Dénes Kemény. The ruling party Fidesz–KDNP nominated Vári as their candidate for the position of Mayor of Pécs in the 2019 Hungarian local elections, but was defeated by the opposition's joint candidate Attila Péterffy.

Honours

National

Club
  • Hungarian Championship (OB I): 4x (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 - with Bp. Honvéd)
  • Hungarian Cup (Magyar Kupa): 4x (1996 (1), 1997, 2001, 2002 - with Vasas)
  • Hungarian SuperCup (Szuperkupa): 1x (2001 - with Vasas)

Awards
  • Masterly youth athlete: 1995
  • Member of the Hungarian team of year: 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004
  • Hungarian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2000
  • Csanádi-díj: 2001
Orders
gollark: Read some of the textbook and someone's notes, and spent a few hours revising and learning it and stuff, and got 75% on the exam.
gollark: One of my friends did roughly that because they wanted to switch from DT to Economics late in the year.
gollark: There's not very much nuance in any of it, not really anything about how economists don't actually *agree* on everything, and not any maths more complicated than division.
gollark: I also do Economics as an option (we do 7-ish (depends how you count them) required subjects and 3 options here) which seemed interesting but is kind of pointless, since basically all of the stuff they teach for that is pretty simplistic.
gollark: Writing pages upon pages of random nonsense to express something like a paragraph of content is very unpleasant.

See also

References
  1. Attila Vári. sports-reference.com
  2. "Vári Attila a kataca.hu oldalán" (in Hungarian). kataca.hu. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
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