Lázár Lovász

Lázár Lovász started his sports career in 1957 as a handball player. He later tried wrestling and football before finding athletics, focusing on the hammer throw. From 1958 to 1970, he was a competitor of Pécsi Dózsa. Due to the strong domestic competition, he was unable to win the national championships and “only” finished second and third places. He also won the regional championship six times.

He was a member of the Hungarian national team between 1965 and 1969. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1966, he took sixth place. In 1968, he won the English championship title, and at the Mexico City Olympics he won the bronze medal, the best result of his life. At the 1969 European Championships in Athens, he again finished in sixth place. He stopped competing quite early, at the age of 29.

After graduating from a technical college in the mining industry, he became an employee of the Mecsek Uranium Mine, from which he retired in 1994 when the mine closed, as a production manager. To this day, he is the most successful athlete in Baranya County athletics, which was recognized in 2011 with the county’s Príma award.

Personal Best: HT – 69.78 (1968).