Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky

Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky

Dömölky at a hairdresser at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1936-03-09) 9 March 1936 Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Club	Budapesti Haladás Vörös Meteor, Budapest
Medal record Representing  Hungary Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Foil, team 1960 Rome Foil, team 1968 Mexico Foil, team World Fencing Championships 1955 Rome Foil, individual 1955 Rome Foil, team 1959 Budapest Foil, team 1967 Montreal Foil, team 1961 Turin Foil, team 1963 Gdansk Foil, individual 1963 Gdansk Foil, team 1966 Moscow Foil, team 1956 London Foil, team

Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky (born 9 March 1936) is a retired Hungarian fencer. She competed at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one gold and two silver medals.^[1]

In 1955, aged 19, Dömölky won her first and only individual world title, though she continued winning other medals at world championships until 1967. She soon married József Sákovics, a fellow fencer and changed her last name. After the 1956 Olympics, while touring the United States, they defected and stayed there for a year, with Dömölky working as a draftswoman and her husband as an auto mechanic. Dissatisfied, they returned to Budapest, where they lived ever since. After retiring from competitions around 1968 Sákovicsné Dömölky received a degree in physical education and a coaching certificate, yet instead of coaching she mostly worked as a sportswriter and co-authored several books on gymnastics and the culture of artistic movement. In 1996 she and her husband spent another year in the United States, as visiting coaches to the Harvard fencing team.^[1]

Her brother, Georges Dömölky, also competed in fencing and defected to the United States, though contrary to his sister he did not return to Hungary.^[1]

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