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Károly Takács
Károly Takács (Hungarian name order Takács Károly) (January 21, 1910 – January 5, 1976) was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the Rapid Fire Pistol event. He was born in Budapest and after a grenade accident in 1938 he had to change to shooting with his left hand, soon mastering it and surprising the world with winning the London 1948 Summer Olympics.
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