Attila Takács

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameAttila•Takács (-Takach)
Used nameAttila•Takács
Born19 January 1929 in Budapest, Budapest (HUN)
Died24 February 2011 in Los Gatos, California (USA)
AffiliationsBHSE, Budapest (HUN)
NOC Hungary

Biography

Attila Tákacs competed in gymnastics for Hungary at the 1956 Olympics. Like so many Hungarian Olympians, he then defected in response to the recent Soviet crushing of the Hungarian October Revolution. He sent his fiancée, Magda, a letter through a teammate, urging her to escape and join him in the United States, which she did. They settled near Los Angeles, where Tákacs (who changed the name spelling to Takach in the US) studied electrical engineering at Southern Cal. He then worked in the aerospace industry until the mid-1970s when he moved to the Silicon Valley region, where he worked on the development of recording materials such as laser discs. Takach climbed the Matterhorn in 1974.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1956 Summer Olympics Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) HUN Attila Takács
Individual All-Around, Men (Olympic) 24
Floor Exercise, Men (Olympic) =23
Horse Vault, Men (Olympic) =11
Parallel Bars, Men (Olympic) =21
Horizontal Bar, Men (Olympic) =44
Rings, Men (Olympic) =23
Pommelled Horse, Men (Olympic) =22

Special Notes