Category | Technical official Date of Birth | 16.03.1925 Date of Death | 12.10.2012 Country | Hungary
Highlights
He is an economist and worked for Budapest's City Council as a Traffic Consultant
Refereed hundreds of international games from 1953 to 1975
Refereed in 4 Olympic Games: Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964, Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972
Called 2 Olympic Finals: Rome 1960 and Mexico 1968
Refereed in 2 World Championships: Rio de Janeiro 1963 and Ljubljana 1970
Called in 8 European Championships for Men
Refereed in 3 European Championships for Women
Called 3 times the USA-USSR game series from 1959 onwards
Refereed 5 Finals of the European Cup for Men's Champion Clubs (current Euroleague): Geneva 1962, Bologna 1966, Madrid 1967, Lyon 1968 and Antwerp 1971
Called 2 Finals of the European Cup for Women's Champions Clubs (current EuroLeague Women): 1959 in Moscow and 1970 in Cracow
Refereed the 4 games between a European Selection and the USA to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of FIBA in 1972
Called the 1972 Final of the European Cup Winner's Cup in Thessaloniki
FIBA Technical Commissioner: 1966-1995
Distinctions & Recognitions
FIBA named him Honorary Referee in 1976
FIBA Order of Merit in 1994