László Zarándi

László Zarándi

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
	1952 Helsinki	4×100 metres relay
European Championships
	1954 Bern	4×100 metres relay

László Zarándi (10 June 1929 – 14 August 2023) was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres. He was born in Kiskunfélegyháza.^[1]

Zarándi began his career in sport in 1946/47 as a football player in the team of SZVSE. At the high school he continued to play football, but trained also in athletics: 100 metre and high jump. In 1950 he was elected in the national team of Hungary for 4 × 100 metres relay. He competed for Hungary at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay with his team mates Géza Varasdi, György Csányi and Béla Goldoványi. Together with the same team, he won the gold medal on 29 August 1954 in Bern, at the European Championship of Athletics in the men 4 × 100 metres relay.

From 1952 he taught at the High School for Physical Education and trained jumpers like László Szalma (fourth place at the Olympic Games in 1980) and Dragán Ivanov.

László Zarándi died on 14 August 2023, at the age of 94.^[1]

References

External links

• László Zarándi at Olympedia
• Walther Umminger (1992). A sport krónikája (in Hungarian). Budapest: Officina Nova. pp. 480, 496. ISBN 963-7836-92-6.
• "Helsinki 1952" (in Hungarian). magyar.sport.hu. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Jocha Károly. "Két hordó sört vesztett a sportminiszter! Ráadásként az amerikai váltót is legyőzték" (in Hungarian). sportforum.hu. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Zarándi László. "A lendületszerzésből végrehajtott távolugrás technikája (The technique of the long jump)" (in Hungarian). Gyula Juhász Teacher Training College, Szeged. Archived from the original on 2008-02-24. Retrieved 2010-01-25.