Ferenc Csik

Ferenc Csik was a Hungarian swimmer, born on 12 December 1913, who won the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a medical student from Budapest and was not counted among the favourites in the final, yet he finished ahead of three Japanese swimmers from the outside lane. At the same Games he also won the bronze medal with the Hungarian 4x200 metre freestyle relay team. He went on to become a medical doctor. During the Second World War he was killed in an air raid on 29 March 1945 while he was helping a wounded man. He was 31 years old when he died.