Klára Killermann
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Full name | Bartos-Killermann Klára | ||||||||
Nationality | Hungary | ||||||||
Born | Tatabánya | June 23, 1929||||||||
Died | July 16, 2012 | ||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||
Strokes | breaststroke | ||||||||
Club | Ferencvárosi TC | ||||||||
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Klára Killermann (also known as Killermann-Bartos) (born June 23, 1929 in Tatabánya, died July 16, 2012[1]) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Hungary. She first won a national championship in 1942, as a 13-year-old, to the big surprise of the Hungarian swimming sport, which at that time was world famous. In 1951 she won gold medal in 100 and 200m breast stroke at the University Games in Berlin. In Helsinki, in 1952, she had exactly the same time as the third placed Helen Gordon 2.57,6, but according to the judges, she was placed fourth, and did not win the bronze medal. At the European Championships in 1954 she won bronze in 200m breaststroke.[2]
Her husband was a national rowing champion, and she has two daughters, Dorottya Klára and Csilla. Her granddaughter Viktória married Prince Jaime, Count of Bardi, the son of Princess Irene of the Netherlands, herself a sister of the former Queen Beatrix. Jaime and Viktória's daughter, Princess Zita Clara, is named in her memory.
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- 1929 births
- Hungarian swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Hungary
- Female breaststroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- People from Tatabánya
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 2012 deaths
- Hungarian swimming biography stubs