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Gabriella Verrasztó

Hungarian swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ20190742 ↗
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Gabriella Verrasztó (born 25 October 1961) is a Hungarian former swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Gabriella is a 13 time Hungarian champion swimmer and is part of the national swimmers hall of fame in Hungary.

She started swimming at a young age alongside her brother Zoltán Verrasztó who became an Olympic medalist.

Her competitive swimming career ended at the age of 18 after she contracted brain fever from a virus during a training camp in Spain. She later recovered from the disease.

Gabriella studied at the University of Physical Education of Hungary and graduated in Sports Science and started a career as a swimming coach.

In 1984 she married Hungarian actor and theatre manager Zoltán Zubornyák. Their daughter Barbara was born in 1987.

In 1996 Gabriella got involved in Triathlon and became a successful coach and leader of the National Youth Programme for the sport for many years.

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“Gabriella Verrasztó” enters the record as hungarian swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gabriella, Verrasztó and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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