Education
After retiring from sports he earned a coaching degree and also studied the biomechanics of sports movements.
architect athletics competitor
After retiring from sports he earned a coaching degree and also studied the biomechanics of sports movements.
Beside his competitive sports career Balogh worked as engineer and architect, focusing on sports and training constructions. He was soon released. He was president of the Hungarian Athletics Association for a brief period in 1946 and later became a docent at the Faculty of Athletics of the College of Physical Education.
Athletics career
Born in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, Balogh competed for Műegyetemi AFC – the sports club of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics – between 1922 and 1936, subsequently he switched to Magyar Air Corps (1937–1944).
He also improved the Hungarian national record, first in 1929 to 7.43 metres, then in 1933 to 7.49 metres. During his university years he participated at the Universiade – also known then as Student World Championships and International University Games –, winning the bronze medal in the long jump in 1928 and the silver in 1930.
Balogh was also present at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Allocated to the Group C in the qualifying round of the long jump, he finished sixth of out then jumpers with 6.79 metres, thus failed to make it to the final round and eventually ranked 23rd.
After his retirement he worked as a coach and sports official and earned his coaching diploma in 1953.
In 1946 he acted as president of the Hungarian Athletics Association for a brief period. Outside sports
Balogh graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1931, subsequently he worked for Óbuda Bridge Engineering Company and Budapest Electronic Works. In 1946 he was promoted to Deputy Head of the Energy Policy Division of Ministry of Industry, however, a year later he was arrested by the Communists with the fabricated charge of conspiration against the state.
He was eventually released and worked as engineer first for Ganz Electric Works (1948–1949), then for the Metalworkers" Union of Budapest and later for the Gheorghiu Dej Shipbuilding Company (1951–1956).
After 1956 he became a docent at the Faculty of Athletics of the College of Physical Education, a position he held until 1963. As an architect he planned and constructed sports facilities.
Among his notable works are the stadium of Pécsi VSK, the training fields of the Népstadion and the facilities of Vasas South Carolina and Budapest Honvéd Southeast. He also contributed to the rebuilding and expansion of the sports center of MTK Budapest and Újpesti TE.
He was a member of the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party and was arrested together with a number of other party members with fabricated charges in 1947, when the Communist Party carried out a coup d’état against the ruling Smallholders Party.