Károly Takács
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Shooting | |||
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| Gold | 1948 London | 25 m rapid fire pistol | |
| Gold | 1952 Helsinki | 25 m rapid fire pistol | |
Károly Takács (Hungarian name order Takács Károly) (January 21, 1910 – January 5, 1976) was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the Rapid Fire Pistol event. He was born in Budapest and after a grenade accident in 1938 he had to change to shooting with his left hand, soon mastering it and surprising the world by winning the London 1948 Summer Olympics.
The story has given him a place among the "Olympic heroes" of the IOC. After his second victory in Helsinki in 1952, he also attended the 1956 games in Melbourne, but did not get a third medal. Not until 2004 did a shooter succeed in getting three Olympic gold medals in the event.
| Olympic medalists in shooting | Olympic champions in men's 25 m rapid fire pistol |
| Ioannis Phrangoudis | Maurice Larrouy | Alfred Lane | Guilherme Paraense | Henry Marvin Bailey | Renzo Morigi | Cornelius van Oyen | Károly Takács (twice) | Stefan Petrescu | William McMillan | Pentti Linnosvuo | Jozef Zapedzki (twice) | Norbert Klaar | Corneliu Ion | Takeo Kamachi | Afanasijs Kuzmins | Ralf Schumann (three times) | Sergei Alifirenko |
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