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Ilona appeared headed for a third consecutive gold medal, but after winning her first five matches in the final pool, she seemed to run out of energy, losing to Maxine Mitchell and then two consecutive 4-3 matches to Irene Camber of Italy; the second of which was for the gold medal.
Elek is considered one of the greatest female fencers in the sport's history.
Besides her Olympic triumphs, she was very successful at the World Championships, capturing the gold medal in the women's foil in 1934, 1935, and 1951 (at the age of 44).
IlonaElek was already 29 years old when she competed in fencing (foil) in her first Olympics, the 1936 Berlin Games.
In the final pool, she faced and defeated the winners of the last two Olympic championships, bettering Helene Mayer of Germany 5-4 and Ellen Preis of Austria 5-3 to gain the gold medal.
The next two Olympics were cancelled because of war, but when the Games resumed in London in 1948, Elek became one of only two champions from 1936 to successfully defend her title.
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Two-time European champion Ilona Schacherer-Elek, a part-Jew from Hungary (center) won the gold medal and the bronze went to Ellen Preis, an Austrian, who was also of Jewish descent.
After the Olympics, Mayer returned to the United States, and in 1937, she won the world championship in Paris, defeating Schacherer-Elek.
In the 1948 Olympics in London, Elek and Preis again won the gold and bronze medals respectively.
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Among the other stars was 17-year-old American Bob Mathias, who won the decathlon to become the youngest winner of a men's Olympic athletics event.
Two Olympic champions in 1936 - Ilona Elek of Hungary, in women's foilfencing, and Jan Brzak of Czechoslovakia, in the canoeing Canadian pairs 1,000m - managed to successfully defend their titles 12 years on.
Concert pianist Micheline Ostermeyer of France won both the shot put and the discus throw.
IlonaElek avait déjà 29 ans quand elle participa à ses premiers Jeux Olympiques, ceux de Berlin en 1936, dans l'épreuve d'escrime (fleuret).
Les deux éditions suivantes des Jeux Olympiques furent annulées en raison de la guerre, mais lors de la reprise des Jeux à Londres en 1948, Elek devint l'une des deux seules championnes de 1936 à y défendre victorieusement son titre.
Ilona revint encore une fois aux Jeux Olympiques en 1952.
Rostás says that the municipal government informed neither the Roma self-government nor the children's parents about their plan until they after spoke to the mayor of Vác.
The head of the Educational and Cultural Department of the Vác municipal government, IlonaElek Bódisné, said the mayor has not given any her instructions to prepare for an additional 90 children.
Bódisné asserted that the addition of 90 school children into the Vác school system would only be technically possible if both a professional committee and the community general assembly decide to accept them.
Karen Hoff, from Denmark, won the decathlon only four months after taking up the sport, becoming the youngest athlete in Olympic history to win a men’s athletics event.
IlonaElek of Hungary in women’s foilfencing and Jan Brzak of Czechoslovakia in the canoeing Canadian pairs 1,000m.
Fanny Blankers-Koen, from The Netherlands, won four gold medals: the 100m dash, the 80m hurdles, the 200m and the 4x100m relay.
Dutch runner Fanny Blankers-Koen was the star of the Games, winning four gold medals on the track.
FencerIlonaElek (Hungary) and canoeist Jan Brzak (Czechoslovakia) successfully defended their Olympic titles they had won 12 years earlier.
In field hockey, India and Pakistan first participated as independent nations, and the homeland of the sport, Great Britain, played the triple Olympic champions from India for the first time and lost.
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She won gold medals over 100 meters, 200 meters, in the 4x100-meter relay, and in the 80-meter hurdles.The Finnish gymnast Veikko Huhtanen won three gold medals (combined, team, and pommel horse events), one silver (parallel bars), and a bronze (horizontal bar).
The Hungarian fencerIlonaElek won a much-celebrated gold medal and retained her 1936 Olympic title.
USA was the most successful team of the Games, ahead of Sweden and France.
However, she did not enter and Hungarian Olga Gyarmati took the crown.
Her's was one of ten victories by a very successful Hungarian team that included IlonaElek, the fencer who proved that the war was no impediment to her sporting success when she retained her 1936 crown in London.
Her male teammate Aladar Gerevich added two more gold medals to a tally that remains one of the most impressive in Olympic history; between 1932 and 1960, he won seven gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
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The first Games for 12 years due to World War II was also the first to be seen on televisions in homes, while Germany and Japan were banned for the exploits against the Allies.
Audrey Patterson became the first fl woman to win a medal when she took bronze in the 200m, while two people, IlonaElek and Jan Brzak successfully defended titles from 1936.
Fanny Blankers-Koen won four events, the 100m, 80m hurdles, 200m and sprint relay, having entered the Games as a world record holder in six events.
