Background
He was Jewish, and was born in Budapest, Hungary.
He was Jewish, and was born in Budapest, Hungary.
He died in 1933, while playing water polo, at the age of 41. In 1976, a new Olympic swimming pool on the Buda bank in Budapest was named the Bela Komjadi Pool, after him. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.