Bela Imre

Bela Imre was born and raised in Brașov, where he was raised and attended primary schooling. He began skiing as a youngster in the 1930s under coach Förszter Balázs and participated in local youth competitions by his teen years and notably won a National Youth Championship in 1938. He competed briefly for the Hungarian national ski team in the early 1940s which was at the time led by a pair of German-Austrian coaches, and won the Transylvania Székely Kupa in 1943 and 1944.

Imre re-joined the Romanian team in 1945 and was selected three years later for the Olympic ski team to compete at Sankt Moritz where he placed 57th in the slalom. He then competed at the World Championships at Buşteni in 1949 and retired from competition shortly thereafter. Imre briefly took to coaching handball in Brașov from 1951 to 1954 before moving to Germany and settling in Traunreut. He died there in 2001, aged 81.