György Kárpáti

György Kárpáti was a Hungarian water polo player, born in Budapest on 23 June 1935, who competed at the Olympic Games of 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964. He was a member of the Hungarian teams that won gold in 1952 and 1956, took bronze in 1960 and won a third gold in Tokyo in 1964, so he is counted among the few male water polo players with four Olympic medals and three Olympic golds. He scored four goals in five matches in 1952, at least six in 1956, five in 1960 and four in 1964. He studied law but never practised it, and he gained a coaching degree in 1964, which he used as assistant coach to Dezső Gyarmati for the national team from 1970 to 1980, a period that included the gold medal at the 1976 Olympics. He was elected to the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1982 and died in 2020.