Bódog Török, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bódog Török

Hungarian handball player and coach

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1923

Date of Death: 16-Oct-2012

Profession: journalist, handball coach

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Bódog Török

  • Bódog Török (2 November 1923 – 16 October 2012 in Budapest) was a Hungarian handball player, coach and sports official.
  • He was the longest serving and the most successful coach in the history of the Hungarian women's national team. Török was born and died in Budapest.
  • He began his playing career with Dunai Repülogépgyár in 1943.
  • In 1945 he switched to MÁV Északi Fomuhely and a year later to Rendorség.
  • From 1947 until his retirement in 1965 he played for Kistext. Beside playing he also took the head coaching position of the Hungarian women's national team.
  • He led Hungary on nine major tournaments between 1956 and 1978 and won a medal on seven occasions.
  • First, yet with the field handball team, he obtained the bronze medal on the 1956 World Championship held in West Germany.
  • In the next year, Hungary finished runners-up in the first official team handball World Championship. In 1962 they experienced a setback, finishing only fifth in the World Championship.
  • However, they bounced back at the next tournament in 1965, where Hungary went undefeated to win their first, and so far only, World title.
  • This was followed by a long bronze-era, as Hungary ended up in the third position in three World Championships (1971, 1975, 1978) and on the Olympics in 1976.
  • They only missed out the podium finish on the 1973 World Championship, where the Soviet Union proved to be too strong for Hungary in the bronze final.
  • Török led the national team in a total of 307 matches. From 1979 to 1987 he was a member of the Board of Hungarian Handball Federation, and between 1983 and 1987 he was the editor of Kézilabdázás, a specialist handball journal.

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