Sándor Iharos
Sándor Iharos ( born March 10, 1930 in Budapest, † January 24, 1996 ) was a Hungarian athlete who came into existence in the 1950s as a middle and long distance runners. He made primarily for his world records Furore, however, was a runner with no luck: The records were only short-lived, and an international medal he won at the Olympic Games not yet at European Championships.
In 1955 Iharos participated in the Universiade in Warsaw and took over 5000 meters in 13:56,6 min to second place behind Poland's Jerzy Chromik (winner in 13:55,2 min).
In 1956 he joined the " Kusocinski Memorial" turn over 5000 meters and took the victory.
His last national championship he won over 5000 meters in 1961 ( 13:51,8 min). The year before, he was still double masters become over 5000 meters ( 14:00,8 min) and 10,000 meters ( 29:14,5 min) ( his championship title before 1960 are not used).
Iharos launched for Honvéd Budapest. He was 1.70 m tall, and brought in his active life of 65 kilos.
Olympic games
Sándor Iharos participated in two Olympic Games: 1952 in Helsinki and 1960 in Rome.
Making its debut in Helsinki in 1952, he started over 1500 meters, but had to finish fifth in its forward travel in 3:56,0 min the competition. The Games in Melbourne in 1956, he stayed away because he due to the political events - just before the games of the Hungarian national uprising took place - was denied participation ( officially a violation was cited as the reason for waiving the start ). His coach Mihály Igloi used, however, the opportunity to settle over Melbourne in the United States. In the following years it went downhill fast with Iharos. At the games in Rome in 1960, he joined although again both over 5000 meters and 10,000 meters on, but played no role in the fight for the medals: About 5000 meters to the finish he ( came in 14:11,4 min as the Third to last it won the New Zealander Murray Halberg in 13:43,4 min), and over 10,000 meters he fared only slightly better than he among 29 runners who crossed the finish line (on qualifying races had you omitted ), in 29:15,8 min eleventh place behind the British Gordon Pirie broke in ( it won Pyotr Bolotnikov from the USSR in 28:32,2 min)
European Championships
Sándor Iharos participated in two European championships: 1954 in Bern about 1500 meters and 1958 in Stockholm over 5000 meters. Both times he came at a considerable distance to the sixth and last place.
His success was the year 1955, when it equal to seven
World Records
Arrive ( they were run with two exceptions, all in Budapest):