Ervin Zádor

Ervin Zádor ( born June 7, 1935 in Budapest, † 29 April 2012) was a Hungarian water polo player and swimming coach.

Ervin Zádor played 23 international matches for Hungary. He was with the Hungarian water polo team in 1956 Olympic champion. In the match against the Soviet Union, the blood clearance of Melbourne, he was such injured shortly before the end of Valentin Prokopow on the head that he had a gash on his head and the water turned red. The audience, including many exile Hungary, raged and a minute before the official end of the game the game at the registry of 4:0 for Hungary was canceled.

After 1956, the Hungarian national uprising was brutally suppressed, Zádor was one of those six players, who returned to the Olympics in 1956 immediately after Hungary. However Zádor was the only one who ever did not return to Hungary. Ervin Zádor was swimming coaches in the United States and for overseeing the young Mark Spitz.

In the spring of 2006, produced by Lucy Liu documentary Freedom's Fury premiered, depicting the history of the Hungarian uprising and the water polo thrillers in 1956 based on the person Zádor.

Ervin Zádor who lived in Ripon, California, was invited as all surviving Hungarian Olympians from 1956 in September 2006 to a 50 - year celebration to Budapest. Zádor did not go there because he did not want to be honored by a government of the people belong to, who were active in communist organizations before 1989.