László Muskát competed for MTK from 1919 and, despite being an all-round athlete, enjoyed his most success in the 100 metres and 110 hurdles. In 1924 he was the national sprint hurdles champion and was a member of the Hungarian 4x100 relay squad that finished fourth at the Paris Olympics that same year. At the end of his athletics career he ran a suitcase shop before switching to the catering business in 1940, running the “Emke Café” in Budapest, where he soon became a well-known figure amongst the city’s night-life. Because of his Jewishethnicity, he had to leave the café in 1944 and worked as an ambulance driver. After World War II he returned, but after the nationalisation of the café he took over the “Pipacs Bar”, where he worked for ten years until his arrest in 1958. He was imprisoned for a year, but it was never established why. He left prison an old man and returned to his business until his death.
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