Raul Uhl started sailing at the age of ten. With the family’s 14-foot yole, named Lucky Strike, along with his siblings.
Uhl achieved his first great success in 1928, when he won the Hungarian Olympic selection race at the age of 21 and competed in the single-person dinghy class and finished in 13th place at the Amsterdam Olympics
In 1932, Uhl Raul, who worked at the Budapest City Hall, and his colleagues at work were the initiators and implementers of the creation of the BSE sailing department.
Two years later. at the first Balaton dinghy championship, Raoul became the champion with his boat Akarattya.
At the end of World War II and for three years thereafter, until July 1947, he suffered in Soviet captivity. Physically degraded, he lived in poor financial conditions and cared for his beloved wife. He was pressurised at City Hall to join the communist party, but he refused to do so. Instead of serving as a senior official, he worked as an auxiliary worker.
Uhl Raoul resumed sailing. In the summer of 1956 he reached the third position in the Hungarian Championship in Dragon. Between 1961 and 1964, he won the Dragon Championship four times.
Hungary