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Gyula Bóbis

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Name
  
Gyula Bobis


Role
  
Olympic athlete

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Died
  
January 24, 1972, Budapest, Hungary

Olympic medals
  
Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Men\'s Freestyle Heavyweight

Gyula Bóbis (7 October 1909 – 24 January 1972) was a Hungarian heavyweight wrestler. He competed at the 1936 Olympics in the Greco-Roman and at the 1948 Olympics in the freestyle division and won a gold medal in 1948. He also won a silver medal at the 1950 World Championships and bronze medals at the 1937 and 1939 European championships.

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Bóbis was born in a family of eight siblings and later had five children himself, including the Olympic fencer Ildikó Farkasinszky-Bóbis. He worked for Hungarian railways and was an avid singer. While being a large and brave man he had a fear of mice.

References

Gyula Bóbis Wikipedia