Klára Fried-Bánfalvi

Klára Fried-Bánfalvi (9 May 1931 – 15 July 2009) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

The native form of this personal name is Bánfalvi Klára. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Klára Fried-Bánfalvi

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	K-2 500 m
World Championships
	1954 Mâcon	K-2 500 m

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 m event at Rome in 1960. Fried-Bánfalvi also won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

She was Jewish.[1]

See also

• List of select Jewish canoeists

References

1. Taylor, P. (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. p. 229. ISBN 9781903900888.

External links

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Klára Bánfalvi-Fried at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Klára Bánfalvi at the International Olympic Committee
• Klára Fried-Bánfalvi's profile at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (in Hungarian)

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