István Déván

István Déván, known in Slovak as Štefan Déván, was a Hungarian sprinter and cross-country skier who competed at two Olympic Games twelve years apart. He was born on 4 November 1890 in Pressburg, then called Pozsony in Austria-Hungary and now Bratislava in Slovakia, and he died in April 1977 in Kempten im Allgäu in West Germany. At the 1912 Summer Olympics he was eliminated in the semifinals of the 200 metres and in the first round of the 400 metres, and he ran for the Hungarian team in the 4x400 metre relay, which also went out in the first round. At the first Winter Olympics in 1924 he finished 31st in the 18 km cross-country skiing event.