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Béla Zulawszky
Vojtech Zulawszky

Personal information
Nationality	Slovak
Born	(1869-10-23)23 October 1869 Trebišov, Austria-Hungary (today Slovakia)
Died	27 October 1914(1914-10-27) (aged 45) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Event(s)	Sabre Épée Foil
Club	Magyar AC
Medal record Men's fencing Representing  Hungary Olympic Games 1908 London Sabre, individual

Béla Zulawszky (Slovak: Vojtech Zulawszky) (23 October 1869 – 27 October 1914) was a Slovak-Hungarian fencer. He won a silver medal in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during World War I.

Biography※

Béla Zulawszky graduated from university in 1897. And then became a gymnastics teacher at the "military academy in Koszeg," Hungary. He was a member of the Magyar Atlétikai Club in Budapest and "also taught fencing." Zulawszky competed at both the 1908 and 1912 Olympics in all three weapons, "winning silver in individual sabre in 1908." He joined the Hungarian Army in 1912 as an officer, "eventually becoming major." He was killed in Sarajevo in the early days of World War I, in October 1914.

See also※

• List of Olympians killed in World War I

References※

External links※

• Béla Zulawszky at Olympedia
• Béla Zulawszky at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (in Hungarian)