Barnabás Steinmetz

Barnabás Steinmetz

Personal information
Born	October 6, 1975 (age 41) Budapest, Hungary
Medal record Men's water polo Representing  Hungary Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team competition 2004 Athens Team competition World Championships 2003 Barcelona Team competition FINA World Cup 1999 Sydney Team competition 2002 Belgrade Team competition

Barnabás Steinmetz (born October 6, 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungarian water polo player who played on the gold medal squads at the 2000 Summer Olympics^[1] and 2004 Summer Olympics.^[2] He is nicknamed Barney and Sema, and made his debut for the national team in 1993, at an international tournament in Moscow, Russia. He is currently the player of Vasas SC.^[3]

Club career

Clubs

• KSI SE (1987–1993)
• FTC-Vitasport (1993–1995)
• Szegedi VE (1995–1996)
• FTC-Thomas Jeans (1996–2000) 2x
• Posillipo (2000–2003)
• TEVA-VasasPlaket (2003–2009)
• Ferencvárosi TC (2009–2010) 3x
• TEVA-Vasas-UNIQA (2010–2012) 2x
• RacioNet Honvéd (2012–2016)

Honours

National

• Olympic Games: Gold medal - 2000, 2004
• World Championships: Gold medal - 2003; Silver medal - 1998
• European Championship: Gold medal - 1997, 1999; Silver medal - 1993; Bronze medal - 2001, 2003
• Universiade: (Silver medal - 1995)
• Junior World Championships: (Gold medal - 1995; Bronze medal - 1993)
• Junior European Championship: (Gold medal - 1992, 1994)

Club

• Hungarian Championship (OB I): 5x (2000 - with FTC; 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 - with Vasas)
• Hungarian Cup (Magyar Kupa): 3x (1996 (2) - with FTC; 2004, 2005 - with Vasas)
• Italian Championship (Serie A1): 1x (2001 - with Posillipo)
• Cup Winners' Cup Winners (2): (1998 - with FTC; 2003 - with Posillipo)

Awards

• Member of the Hungarian team of year: 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004
• Masterly youth athlete: 1995, 1996
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2000)
• Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2004)
• Papp László Budapest Sportíj (2014)

References

1. "Hungary at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
2. "Hungary at the 2004 Athina Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
3. "Steinmetz Barnabás" (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2010-01-29.

External links

• "Barnabás Steinmetz". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
• Barnabás Steinmetz on vizipolo.hu (in Hungarian)