Kálmán Hazai

Kálmán Hazai was a swimmer and water polo player of MTK from 1926 and BSE from 1940. He was the Hungarian youth champion in the 100 m freestyle in 1930 and in the 300 m medley in 1931. As a swimmer he was capped three times. In 1934, he participated at the European Championships in Magdeburg, but finished unplaced in the 100 metres backstroke. In the same year he also won the Hungarian championship in the medley. In 1935, he finished first again in this discipline, but as he did not reach the time limit, he was not considered as champion.

He also achieved significant successes in water polo at an international level. He was the member of the team that finished first at the World College Games in 1935 and 1937. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics he was a member of the team that won the gold medal and he won the European Championship in 1937 and 1939. He won his only Hungarian championship in water polo in 1940. Between 1934 and 1942, he appeared forty times in the Hungarian national team.

Before the Second World War, he was an officer and chief financial advisor of the Central Audit Office of Budapest. He went abroad from 1946 and worked as a swimming coach and physical educator in Malmö, Sweden, and from 1960 he lived in Denmark. He settled in København, where he worked as a swimming and water polo coach until his retirement.