HARAI Balazs

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
5	Men	2012	London, GBR

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2013	Barcelona, ESP
2	Men	2017	Budapest, HUN
4	Men	2019	Gwangju, KOR
4	Men	2011	Shanghai, CHN
5	Men	2009	Rome, ITA
6	Men	2015	Kazan, RUS

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2020	Budapest, HUN

Pufi (vlv.hu, 21 Jun 2018)

Fishing, football, playing the piano. (vlv.hu, 01 Jul 2017)

Athlete

Partner Alexandra, daughter Elizabeth Rose [2019]

English, Hungarian

Orvosegyetem SC [Budapest, HUN] since 2018/19

Daniel Varga [club], HUN; Tamas Marcz [national], HUN

Centre forward (globalsportsarchive.com, 21 Feb 2020)

Right (wpbelgrade2016.microplustiming.com, 11 Jan 2016)

A shoulder injury affected his performances in the early part of the 2014/15 season. (index.hu, 03 Sep 2015)

In December 2012 he suffered from periostitis in his right wrist, an inflammatory condition affecting connective tissue. He required surgery, which ruled him out of action for six weeks. (nemzetisport.hu, 28 Dec 2012)

OB 1 [HUN] (flashscore.com, 02 May 2021)

He began playing water polo at age 10. (olimpia.hu, 11 Jun 2016)

He was originally involved in football at youth level [U10] with Ferencvaros TC before deciding to switch to water polo due to his body size. (olimpia.hu, 11 Jun 2016)

Hungarian water polo player Tibor Benedek. (olimpia.hu, 11 Jun 2016)

In 2015 and 2016 he was named Hungarian Male Player of the Year by the Hungarian Water Polo Association. (egrisztorik.hu, 23 Dec 2016; waterpolo.hu, 15 Dec 2015)

In 2012 he received the Silver Cross of Merit of Hungary [civil division]. (sport.hir24.hu, 17 Sep 2012)

In 2011 he received a Junior Prima Sports Award, which is given for outstanding performance by a person under the age of 30 in Hungary. (honved-vizilabda.hu, 2011)

He received the 2005 Ivan Szalay Award, which is presented to the best junior player of the year in Hungary. (vlv.hu, 13 May 2013)