János Murányi
Hungarian discus thrower
János Murányi (born January 13, 1944, in Mezőkövesd, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) is a retired male discus thrower from Hungary. He represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where he ended up in 12th place in the overall-rankings. Murányi is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's discus event at the 1970 Summer Universiade in Torino, Italy.
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "János Murányi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
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World University Games champions in men's discus throw
- 1959:
Antonios Kounadis (GRE)
- 1961:
Edmund Piątkowski (POL)
- 1963:
Gaetano Dalla Pria (ITA)
- 1965:
Lars Haglund (SWE)
- 1967:
Gary Carlsen (USA)
- 1970:
János Murányi (HUN)
- 1973:
Viktor Zhurba (URS)
- 1975:
Markku Tuokko (FIN)
- 1977:
Nikolay Vikhor (URS)
- 1979:
Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR)
- 1981:
Armin Lemme (GDR)
- 1983:
Luis Delís (CUB)
- 1985:
Luis Delís (CUB)
- 1987:
Randy Heisler (USA)
- 1989:
Kamy Keshmiri (USA)
- 1991:
Adewale Olukoju (NGR)
- 1993:
Alexis Elizalde (CUB)
- 1995:
Vitaliy Sidorov (UKR)
- 1997:
Vladimir Dubrovshchik (BLR)
- 1999:
Frantz Kruger (RSA)
- 2001:
Aleksander Tammert (EST)
- 2003:
Wu Tao (CHN)
- 2005:
Gerd Kanter (EST)
- 2007:
Gerhard Mayer (AUT)
- 2009:
Mohammad Samimi (IRI)
- 2011:
Märt Israel (EST)
- 2013:
Ronald Julião (BRA)
- 2015:
Philip Milanov (BEL)
- 2017:
Reginald Jagers III (USA)
- 2019:
Matthew Denny (AUS)
- 2021:
Oskar Stachnik (POL)
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