András Balczó: Quick Facts

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Born	August 16, 1938 (age 88)
Awards And Honors	Olympic Games

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Hans Günter Winkler

German athlete

Olympic diver Klaus Dibiasi

Klaus Dibiasi

Italian athlete

Ludmilla Tourischeva

Ludmilla Tourischeva

Soviet gymnast

Champion Olympic fencer Aladár Gerevich

Aladár Gerevich

Hungarian fencer

Irina Press

Irina Press

Soviet athlete

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Lars-Göran Hall

Swedish athlete

Muhammad Ali, shirtless and sweating, trains with a speed bag in a wood-paneled gym at his Pennsylvania training camp, circa 1974.

Muhammad Ali

American boxer

George Foreman

American boxer

Olympic gymnast Věra Čáslavská

Věra Čáslavská

Czech gymnast

Vasily Alexeyev of the Soviet Union lifts a loaded barbell overhead during the super heavyweight weightlifting competition at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev

Soviet weightlifter

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Nino Benvenuti

Italian boxer

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Al Oerter

American athlete

Kip Keino

Kip Keino

Kenyan distance runner

Mark Spitz

Mark Spitz

American swimmer

Nikolai Andrianov

Nikolai Andrianov

Soviet gymnast

Soviet wrestler Aleksandr Medved

Aleksandr Medved

Russian wrestler

Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games

Arkady Vorobyev

Soviet weightlifter

Saneyev, Viktor

Viktor Saneyev

Soviet athlete

Roland Matthes

Roland Matthes

East German swimmer

Katō Sawao

Katō Sawao

Japanese gymnast

Silhouette of hand holding sport torch behind the rings of an Olympic flag, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; February 3, 2015.

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