Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky

The native form of this personal name is Dömölky Lídia Sákovicsné. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky (born 9 March 1936) is a retired Hungarian fencer. She competed at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one gold and two silver medals.^[1]

Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky

Dömölky at a hairdresser at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1936-03-09) 9 March 1936 (age 88) Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Club	Budapesti Haladás Vörös Meteor, Budapest
Medal record Representing  Hungary Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Foil, team 1960 Rome Foil, team 1968 Mexico Foil, team World Fencing Championships 1955 Rome Foil, individual 1955 Rome Foil, team 1959 Budapest Foil, team 1967 Montreal Foil, team 1961 Turin Foil, team 1963 Gdansk Foil, individual 1963 Gdansk Foil, team 1966 Moscow Foil, team 1956 London Foil, team

Sports career

In 1955, aged 19, Dömölky won her first and only individual world title, though she continued winning other medals at world championships until 1967. After the 1956 Olympics, while touring the United States, she and her husband, József Sákovics, a fellow fencer, defected and stayed there for a year. Dömölky worked as a draftswoman and her husband as an auto mechanic. Dissatisfied, they returned to Budapest, where they lived ever since.

Post-sports career

After retiring from competitions around 1968 Sákovicsné Dömölky received a degree in physical education and a coaching certificate, yet instead of coaching she mostly worked as a sportswriter and co-authored several books on gymnastics and the culture of artistic movement. In 1996 she and her husband spent another year in the United States, as visiting coaches to the Harvard fencing team.^[1]

Personal life

Her brother, Georges Dömölky, also competed in fencing and defected to the United States permanently.^[1]