Ödön Bodor

Ödön Bodor, born Ödön Krausz on 24 October 1882 in Kapuvár, Hungary, and who died in Budapest on 22 January 1927, was a Hungarian middle-distance runner who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. At London he was a member of the Hungarian medley relay team that took the bronze medal in the 1600 metres race, running the final 800 metre leg after Pál Simon, Frigyes Wiesner and József Nagy; the team finished inches behind the Germans in 3:32.5 against 3:32.4. In the individual 800 metres he won his first round heat in 1:58.6, beating the defending champion James Lightbody, and ran 1:55.4 in the final, the slowest of the four men to beat Lightbody's Olympic record. He also ran the 1500 metres but did not get past the first round. Bodor also played football as a midfielder, beginning in 1900 with Újpesti FC, and he was Jewish.