Ján Nagy

Ján Nagy (12 April 1945 – 24 October 2025) was a Slovak weightlifter. He competed in the men's super heavyweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He held a long-standing national record in the clean and jerk and won the bronze medal in that event at the 1976 World Weightlifting Championships.

Biography Nagy was born in Sereď, Czechoslovakia, on 12 April 1945. He spent his first three years there before his family moved to Ostrov nad Ohří, Bohemia. He enjoyed sports, particularly running, from a young age. At age 11, he was hospitalized for a year with rheumatic fever. In 1972, Nagy became part of the Czechoslovak national weightlifting team, for whom he competed through 1979. Considered the "strongest man in Czechoslovakia", he set dozens of national records and won the national championship in his weight class in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1978. This mark remained the best in the Czech Republic until 2017, while it has not been surpassed in Slovakia as of 2025. After his weightlifting career, Nagy moved to Germany, where he had a family and lived in Seukendorf, working at the Kraftwerk Union company. He later moved back to the Czech Republic in 2000, living in Karlovy Vary. He died on 24 October 2025, at the age of 80.