Katalin Szőke

Katalin Szőke was a Hungarian freestyle swimmer, born in Budapest on 17 August 1935, who won two gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, in the 100 metre freestyle and the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay. She repeated both victories at the 1954 European Championships, set four world records during her career and swam the same two events at the 1956 Olympics without success. Her father was the water polo Olympic champion Márton Homonnai, who fled Hungary after the war, so she took her mother's name. After the 1956 Soviet intervention she emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, where she worked in a bank and did some modelling and later used the surname Domyan. She entered the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1985 and died on 27 October 2017.