Sándor Tarics

Sándor Tarics (23 September 1913 – 21 May 2016) was a Hungarian water polo player who won a gold medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Biography Born in Budapest, Tarics was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal, pushing Germany into second.

Tarics was able to escape post-war Soviet-occupied Hungary when his doctoral degree in engineering earned him a teaching fellowship in the United States. From 1949 to 1951, he served as a professor at Fort Wayne University, after which he took up a professorship at the California Institute of Technology. Tarics also established and grew a successful architecture and engineering practice in San Francisco. Following the death of Attilio Pavesi, Tarics was the oldest living Olympic champion.

Tarics died in San Francisco, United States, on 21 May 2016 at the age of 102.