Margit Kalocsai

Margit Kalocsai
Margit Kalocsai
Country represented	Hungary
Born	27 December 1909
Died	23 November 1993 (aged 83)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Medal record
Representing Hungary
Olympic Games
World Championships

Margit Kalocsai (27 December 1909 – 23 November 1993)^[1] was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.^[2]

At the first-ever World Championships for women, she was the 2nd-place finisher,^[3]^[4] which stands in extreme contrast to her 41st-place individual result^[5]^[6] at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics where her marks in both the compulsory and voluntary segments on 2 of the 3 events contested were extremely low (61st place overall on the parallel bars^[5]^: 870 and 33rd place overall on the vaulting horse^[5]^: 871 out of a field of 64 competitors), considering her performance at the preceding 1934 World Championships.

Kalocsai's extreme misfortune at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics parallels, with immediately adjacent juxtapositioning, the misfortune of Poland's Janina Skirlińska, who finished just below Kalocsai, in 3rd place, in the individual standings at the 1934 Worlds,^[3] and again in 4th place at the 1938 Worlds^[7]^[8] (which Kalocsai and her Hungarian teammates did not attend), yet just above her at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in 40th place.^[5]^: 871^[6] At those Olympics, incidentally, just like Skirlinska, it was Kalocsai's marks, in both segments of the competition, on both parallel bars and vaulting horse, rather than her relatively good placement on beam (5th for Kalocsai^[5]^: 870 and 15th for Skirlinska^[5]^: 874), that contributed to her reversal in fortune.

References

^ "Kalocsai Margit". Hungarian Olympic Committee (in Hungarian). Retrieved 17 August 2021.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Margit Kalocsai". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b Macanovic, Hrvoje (June 8, 1934). "X medunarodne gimnastičke utakmice u Budimpešti" [X International Gymnastics Matches in Budapest.]. Sokolsky Glasnik (in Slovenian). Vol. 5, no. 24. p. 6. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
^ "1934 World Gymnastics Championships Results" (PDF). Usagym.org. USA Gymnastics. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Organizing Committee for the 11th Berlin Olympiad. "The XIth Olympic Games Berlin, 1936 Official Report (Volume II)". pp. 870–871. Retrieved 2 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ ^a ^b "1936 Olympic Games Women's Team Results". Gymn-Forum.net. 17 February 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
^ Macanovic, Hrvoje (July 30, 1938). "Setsko gimnasticko prvenstvo 1938 u Pragu" [World Gymnastics Championships 1938 in Prague.]. Sokolsky Glasnik (in Slovenian). Vol. 9, no. 26–29. p. 34. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
^ "Ceskoslovensko vyhralo mezinarodni telocvicne zavody" [Czechoslovakia won international gym races.]. Vecer (in Czech). Vol. 25, no. 154. July 2, 1938. p. 30. Retrieved May 2, 2023.