Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Dénes (Deján)•Birkás (Bikár) |
Used name | Dénes•Birkás |
Born | 13 March 1907 in Budapest, Budapest (HUN) |
Died | 10 July 1996 in Budapest, Budapest (HUN) |
Affiliations | BBTE, Budapest (HUN) |
NOC | Hungary |
Deján Bikár was an excellent hockey and ice hockey player. As a hockey player of BBTE, Bp. Kinizsi and then Vasas, between 1935 and 1948 he won the Hungarian championship ten times and played 16 times in the national team. Under the name of Dénes Birkás he participated at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
Between 1925 and 1945, he played ice hockey in the colors of BBTE and also worked as the head of the hockey department of his affiliation. He played for the national team at the 1930 and 1931 World Hockey Championships.
As a sports leader, he was the federal captain of the Hungarian ice hockey team in 1946, and from 1963 to 1966 he was the president of the Hungarian Ice Sports Association. In 1990, he was elected president of the reconstituted BBTE.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Hockey | HUN | Dénes Birkás | |||
Hockey, Men (Olympic) | Hungary | =7 |