VARGA Denes

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN
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
2	Men	2007	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
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

Dumi (Athlete, 26 Mar 2007)

Athlete

Business, Marketing - International Business School [IBS], Budapest, HUN

Sons Bendeguz [2013] and Vince [2016]

English, Hungarian

Ferencvarosi TC [Budapest, HUN] since 2017/18

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

Driver (total-waterpolo.com, 25 Dec 2019)

Right (pbelgrade2016.microplustiming.com, 11 Jan 2016)

His older brother Daniel has represented Hungary in water polo and was part of the team that claimed gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He also played at the Games in both 2012 and 2016. (SportsDeskOnline, 26 Feb 2020; vasarnap.ujszo.com, 11 Jun 2015)

2006 for Hungary, World League (Athlete, 26 Mar 2007)

In June 2020 he suffered a knee injury while training with the national team and underwent surgery. He returned to action in November 2020. (total-waterpolo.com, 08 Jun 2020, 06 Nov 2020)

A knee injury, which later required surgery, forced him to withdraw during the tournament at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. (nemzetisport.hu, 08 Jun 2020; total-waterpolo.com, 17 Jul 2019)

He broke his neck in a car crash in 2005. He was driving and crashed into a street light. (total-waterpolo.com, 25 Dec 2019)

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

He took up the sport in 1993, and more seriously at age 11. (olimpia.hu, 11 Jun 2016; Athlete, 26 Mar 2007)

He first tried swimming at age three. "It was a family thing. Four of us played water polo. First, I went to a swimming class. But very quickly it became very dull, so I switched to water polo because it's a game after all. Soon I realised that I like to score goals and, more importantly, that I'm able to score them. It was very joyful and I wanted to stay in this atmosphere." (olimpia.hu, 11 Jun 2016; total-waterpolo.com, 25 Dec 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (france-waterpolo.fr, 02 Jan 2019)

Hungarian water polo players Tamas Kasas and Peter Biros, Montenegrin water polo player Veljko Uskokovic, Serbian water polo player Aleksandar Sapic. (total-waterpolo.com, 25 Dec 2019)

He was selected as the Most Valuable Player [MVP] at the European championships in both 2014 and 2020. (total-waterpolo.com, 26 Jan 2020; nemzetisport.hu, 27 Jul 2014)

He was named MVP of the 2019 World League Europa Cup in Zagreb, Croatia. (fina.org, 07 Apr 2019)

He was selected as MVP of the 2014/15 OB 1 league in Hungary. (waterpolo.hu, 18 May 2015)

He received the 2014 Hungarian Male Player of the Year Award. (waterpolo.hu, 10 Dec 2014)

In 2013 he received the Male Water Polo Player of the Year Award from the International Swimming Federation [FINA], and the European Swimming Federation [LEN]. (hvg.hu, 06 Jan 2014; nepszava.hu, 03 Dec 2013)

He was named MVP of the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. (hatharom.com, 03 Aug 2013)

He was chosen as MVP of the 2007 World Junior Championships in Long Beach, CA, United States of America. (vlv.hu, 28 Aug 2007)