Sándor Tarics

Sándor Tarics was a Hungarian water polo player, born in Budapest on 23 September 1913, who won the gold medal with the Hungarian team at the 1936 Summer Olympics, where Germany finished second. He played two matches in that tournament and scored two goals. He also won gold with the Hungarian team at the International University Games in 1933, 1935 and 1937, as well as at the unofficial, German-led games of 1939. After the Second World War he left Soviet-occupied Hungary for the United States, where a doctoral degree in engineering earned him a teaching fellowship. He was a professor at Fort Wayne University from 1949 to 1951, then at the California Institute of Technology, and he built an architecture and engineering practice in San Francisco, with patents for a stadium roof and a composite seismic isolator. He attended the 2012 London Olympics as the oldest living Olympic champion and died in San Francisco in 2016 at the age of 102.