Jenő Brandi

Brandi Jenö started swimming as a high school student and competed in his school’s team. Later, as a player of MTK, he was a youth champion in water polo. He played with MTK until 1938, then due to the dissolution of the team, he transferred to BSE, where he won the championship in 1940. After the war, he became a player for Vasas SC, with which he won two more Hungarian championships (1947 and 1949). Between 1934 and 1948, he appeared sixty-one times in the Hungarian national team. He won the College World Games title three times (1933, 1935 and 1937). He became Olympic champion in 1936, and European champion in 1934 and 1938. In 1947, he won the 4th European championship, and in 1948, he won the Olympic silver medal.

He retired from active sports in 1949. After his retirement, he was a founding member of the Bp. Honvéd’s water polo department. He was also an international referee. From 1964 to 1972, he was a member of the board of the Hungarian Swimming Association (MÚSZ), a member of the technical committee of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), and an international competition judge. From 1977 to 1979, he was the coach of Híradástechnika SE. In 1978, they won Group B of the second division, and Group A in 1979. In 1980, he was the coach of the team named Bp. Volán in OB I. In 1968, his specialist book Water polo was published.