Béla Bakosi

Béla Bakosi ( born June 18, 1957 in Kemecse, Szabolcs County ) is a former Hungarian triple jumper. In 1982, he was third at the European Championships.

Career

Finished in 1979 with the European Indoor Championships in Vienna Bakosi 16.30 m for fifth place. In the outdoor season, he won his first of eight Hungarian league titles in the triple jump and his only Hungarian Champion title in the long jump. 1980 won Bakosi at the European Indoor Championships in Sindelfingen with 16.86 meters and 35 centimeters ahead of second-placed Jaak Uudmäe from the Soviet Union. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow three athletes jumped more than 17 meters, Jaak Uudmäe won with 17,35 m gold; Béla Bakosi also reached the Olympic final, finishing with 16.47 m in seventh place.

1982 won Bakosi at the European Indoor Championships in Milan with 17,13 m his second title. At the European Athletics Championships in Athens skipped as 1980 in Moscow three athletes the 17 -meter mark, behind the British Keith Connor and Vasily Grischtschenkow from the Soviet Union Bakosi received for 17.04 m the bronze medal. Also won bronze Bakosi at the European Indoor Championships 1983 in Budapest, with 16,90 m he was behind the Soviet jumpers Mykola Mussijenko and Gennadi Waljukewitsch. In the 1983 inaugural World Championships in Helsinki Bakosi finished with 16.83 m in seventh place.

At the 1984 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg Bakosi jumped 17.15m and again received the bronze medal. In the outdoor season, 1985, he won his sixth in Budapest Hungarian Champion title in the triple jump; its length of 17.23 m remained Hungarian record until 1998 Zsolt Czingler an inch further jumped. In 1986, he won at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid with 16,93 m his third bronze medal at European Indoor Championships. At the European Championships in Stuttgart in the summer Bakosi qualified with a wind -aided 16.83 m for the final, but there he scored only 16.09 m and the twelfth place. At the 1988 European Indoor Championships before a home crowd in Budapest Bakosi jumped 17.25 meters two inches farther than his Hungarian outdoor record, with this distance, he won silver behind Oleg Sakirkin from the Soviet Union; it was Bakosis sixth and final medal at European Indoor Championships.

Béla Bakosi 1,80 m tall and weighed 67 kg in his playing days.

Personal best

• Triple Jump: 17,23 m, July 29, 1985, Budapest Hall: 17,25 m, March 6, 1988, Budapest