László Hódi

László Hódi started his sports career as a swimmer with VAC and then MUE. However, due to his heart problem, the doctor banned him from swimming, but he continued as a diver. In his first diving competition, in 1928, he won the KISOK Championship, which he repeated in 1929. Between 1930 and 1936, he won the Hungarian championship six times on springboard in the colors of MTK. Between 1930 and 1936 he earned 14 caps.

At the 1933 World University Championships, Hódi finished third in the springboard and fourth in the platform. This was the first time that Hungarian divers took part in the Olympics. Hódi graduated from Pázmány Péter University in Budapest with a medical degree. He left Hungary for the United States in 1941, where he lived first in Chicago and then in San Diego.