Pavol Steiner

Steiner was Jewish, and was a member of Jewish sport clubs in interwar Czechoslovakia.[2]

He competed at 19 years of age with the Czechoslovakia men's national water polo team in the 1927 European Water Polo Championship in Bologna, Italy, in which they came in 7th.[3]

Steiner competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, coming in 9th with the Czechoslovakia men's national water polo team in water polo at the Games.[4][5]

He also competed in swimming, and won a bronze medal at the 1931 European Aquatics Championships in Paris in the 100 m freestyle with the Czechoslovakia men's national swimming team.[1][6]

Steiner competed in swimming at the 1932 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, the first Maccabiah Games, and won three gold medals.[7][8] He won the 100m freestyle (breaking the record from Czechoslovakia), the 3x100m medley relay, and the 4x200m medley relay.[9][7][8]

He competed at the 1935 Maccabiah Games.[10] There, Steiner won two gold medals in swimming, in the 100m freestyle and in the 4x200m freestyle relay.[10] He also won a team gold medal in water polo, as Czechoslovakia came out ahead of Austria and Palestine.[11][12]

Steiner was a cardiology surgeon at Martin University Hospital in Martin, and performed there the first open cardiac surgery in Slovakia.[13]

• "Pavol Steiner," sports-reference.