László Bánhegyi

László Bánhegyi played basketball for Hungary at the 1952 and 1960 Olympics. He also competed at the European Championships in 1953, 1955, 1957, and 1959, helping Hungary win a silver medal in 1953. He played for Bp. Red Meteor and later for Bp. Honvéd. Bánhegyi left Hungary in 1961 and moved to Britain for a few years, where he won several club titles, but returned to Hungary in 1965. He was a practitioner of kung fu, and a big supporter of Far Eastern martial arts. Bánhegyi lived his last few years in Wien (Vienna), Austria.