Klára Fried-Bánfalvi

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Klára Fried-Bánfalvi
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1960 Rome K-2 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1954 Mâcon K-2 500 m

Klára Fried-Bánfalvi (9 May 1931 – 15 July 2009) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 m event at Rome in 1960. Fried-Bánfalvi also won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

She was Jewish.[1]

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  1. ^ Taylor, P. (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. p. 229. ISBN 9781903900888.

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