Olga Orban-Szabo

Olga Szabó-Orbán won bronze at the World Championships in Ankara in 1970, silver in 1965 in Paris and gold in 1962 in Buenos Aires. With the team she won the title in Havana in 1969 and two more silver and two bronze medals. She took part in five Olympic Games. At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, she reached the finals in singles, where she finished first with six victories together with Gillian Sheen. In the barrage she lost to Sheen and thus received the silver medal. In 1960 in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo, she placed in the top ten in both individual and team competitions, as well as in individual competitions in Mexico City in 1968. In the team competition, she moved into the semifinals, in which the Romanian team lost to Hungary. In the battle for bronze, she then prevailed against France. Also, at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, she finished the team competition with a bronze medal. She later married water polo player Alexandru Szabo.