CPresident · 2010 – 2012OTS observer
Pál Schmitt
Hungary's fourth president (b. 1942), a fencer who won two Olympic gold medals.
Pál Schmitt won team épée gold at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, later becoming an IOC member, ambassador and Vice-President of the European Parliament, and briefly Speaker of parliament in 2010.
He became president in August 2010 and resigned in April 2012 after a plagiarism scandal over his doctoral thesis.
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Updated: October 4, 2026