Ernő Béres

Ernő Béres started his sports career in Dunakeszi, where he played football first, but he also swam and did gymnastics, and after an injury switched to athletics. He competed from 1946 to 1959, with Dunakeszi Magyarság (1946/49), TF METESZ (1949/50), TF DÍSZ (1950/51), TF Haladás (1951/53), Vasas (1953/56) and in the colors of BEAC (1957/59). He won six national championships in middle- and long-distance running, as well as cross-country running.

Between 1950 and 1958, he appeared 14 times in the national team. At the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, he finished seventh in the 5,000 meters with a national record, and won two silver and one bronze medals at the College World Championships. In 1953 as a member of the Hungarian 4x1500 meters relay team he set a world record in the Népstadion.

He obtained a physical education teacher’s certificate in 1952 and an athletic trainer’s certificate in 1963. From 1952 to 1967, he was the head physical education teacher at the Horticultural College (later University). Between 1967/72 he was the head physical education teacher at the Health College, and from 1972 he was an assistant professor at the Kossuth Lajos Military College, until his retirement in 1986. He acted as a competition judge for more than 66 years. In his retirement years, he became a member of the fishing association in Dunakeszi, and regularly ran and swam.

Personal Best: 5000 – 14:01.0 (1955).