Róbert Zimonyi

Róbert Zimonyi
Personal information
Born18 April 1918
Sárvár, Hungary[1]
Died2 February 2004 (aged 85)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
SportRowing
ClubDuna Budapesti-i Evezős Egylet
Budapesti Kinizsi
Vesper Boat Club[1]
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place1948 LondonCoxed pair
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1964 TokyoEight
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place1967 WinnipegCoxed four
European Rowing Championships
Bronze medal – third place1965 DuisburgEight

Róbert Zimonyi (18 April 1918 – 2 February 2004) was a Hungarian-born American rowing coxswain. He competed for Hungary in various events at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and won a bronze medal in coxed pairs. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he moved to the United States and became an American citizen in 1962.[2] With American teams, he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964[1] and a European bronze medal in 1965,[3] both in the eights, and a gold medal at the 1967 Pan American Games in coxed fours.[4]

Zimonyi left rowing in late 1960s, and did not coach. He was an accountant by training, but after immigrating to the United States, he worked at a brick company of a fellow rower John B. Kelly Sr.[5] In 1963, he became an accountant at Sandmeyer Steel, and worked there until retiring by age in 1983.[5]

Personal life

Zimonyi had a sister in Hungary.[6] After that he moved to Florida to improve his health, together with his partner, Isabel Gressner.[7]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Róbert Zimonyi. sports-reference.com
  2. ↑ Stowe, 25
  3. ↑ Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Achter). sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ Steven Olderr (14 September 2009). The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A Statistical History, 1951–1999, bilingual edition / Una Historia Estadística, 1951–1999, edición bilingüe. McFarland. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4766-0468-8.
  5. 1 2 Stowe, 24
  6. ↑ Carl Posey (18 November 2015). XVI Olympiad: Melbourne/Stockholm 1956, Squaw Valley 1960. Warwick Press Inc. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-987944-13-6.
  7. ↑ Stowe, 175

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