Teofil SAVNIKI

Teofil Savniky participated as a middle-distance runner at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the 1,500 metres, where he was eliminated in the heats. In the Hungarian trials, he had placed second behind Ödön Bodor in the half-mile-race. As a writer, he later took the name Marschalkó, and participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics with his work Agon: a dramatic poem in five Pictures in the Art Competitions, in the category Literature. He was a poet and sports journalist, and in many of his poems he praised the region of Leányfalu near Budapest.

Personal Best: 1500 – 4:15.4 (1914).