- Member of ILSA's Golden Team
- National champion in both swimming and water polo
- Member of Romania's water polo national team
- Member of Romania's national swim team
- Participated in the Helsinki Olympic Games (1952)
- Played in the Water Polo European Championship (Italy 1954)
- Scored 10 goals for Romania (13 international games)
- Honorary title: Maestru al Sportului
Octavian Iosim
- One of the original ILSA athletes
- Member of ILSA's Golden Team
- Multiple national champion with ILSA's Golden Team
- Member of Romania's water polo national team
- Participated in the Helsinki Olympic Games (1952)
- Had an athletic career of over twenty years
- Rated as ILSA's best goalie ever
- Coached ILSA's youth team
- Honorary title: Maestru al Sportului
Norman Zoltan
- Member of Romania's swimming & water polo national teams
- National champion in both swimming and water polo
- Romania's first-ever Olympic swimmer (Helsinki 1952)
- Holder of multiple national records in swimming (1947-1955)
- Member of ILSA's Golden Team
- Played 30 international games with Romania's national team
- Maestru al Sportului in both swimming and water polo
Novak Jozsef
- Member of ILSA's first-ever water polo team
- Multiple national champion in both swimming and water polo
- Member of ILSA's Golden Team
- Member of Romania's national water polo team
- Water polo referee at the end of his playing career
- Coached CCA Bucharest, the polo team that dethroned ILSA
- Appointed in 1951 to coach Romania's water polo national team
- National team coach at the 1960 Olympiad in Rome (5th place)
Balint Adalbert
- Emerged in 1964 as Romania's top breaststroker
- Coached by Lovas Peter
- Renamed Vasile Costa by the sports media
- Multiple Romanian national champion (1964-1972)
- Holder of multiple national records (100 & 200 m breaststroke)
- Participated in the 1968 Mexico City Olympiad
- Olympic semifinalist, 100 meter breaststroke
- 11th place in, 200 meter breaststroke
- Semifinalist at the European Swimming Championships
- His 100 m breaststroke national record lasted for 18 years
- Three gold medals at the Balkan Games (1969-1970)
- Finalist at the World University Games (1965 and 1970)
- Honorary title: Maestru al Sportului
Koszta Ladislau
- Romanian national champion in swimming, early 1950s
- Selected to Romania's national swim team (early 1950s)
- Graduate of Bucharest's Institutul de Cultura Fizica (ICF)
- Coached Koszta Ladislau at the Mexico City Olympiad (1968)
- One of Timisoara's most successful swim coaches
- Has produced multiple national champions
- Known for his ability to develop thinking athletes
- Settled in Germany in the early 1970s
Lovas Peter
- Started swimming at ILSA at the age of five
- One of the four Toth siblings, all having started out at ILSA
- Multiple national champion titles in butterfly events
- Holder of multiple national records in butterfly events
- Emigrated to Israel in 1989, at the age of twenty
- Represented Israel at the Barcelona Olympic Games, 1992
- Participated at the Swimming World Championships in 1991
Toth Timea
- Started to swim and play water polo in Arad
- Transferred to ILSA for the 1949 season
- Water polo national champion with ILSA and CCA Bucharest
- Eight national champion titles in swimming
- Excelled in freestyle events, all distances
- Played in the Water Polo European Championship (Italy 1954)
- Two-time water polo Olympian (Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956)
- Defected to the USA after the Melbourne Olympics (1956)
Hoszpodar Zoltan
- Started to swim and play water polo in his native Hungary
- Selected to Hungary's national water polo team at nineteen
- Joined ILSA in 1946, giving a major boost to the club
- Dual role as player and coach of ILSA's Golden Team
- Member of Romania's water polo national team
- Scored 19 goals for Romania (12 international games)
- National champion in both swimming and water polo
- Helsinki Olympiad, 1952: player, coach and team captain
- Coach of Romania's national swim team
- One of Romania's best water polo referees
- Honorary title: Maestru al Sportului
Török Gabor
This page is dedicated to the athletes and coaches who made it to the Olympic Games while active at ILSA (Török Gabor, Norman Zoltan, Koszta Ladislau and Lovas Peter) as well as those who became Olympians after their ILSA careers (Novak Jozsef, Octavian Iosim, Hoszpodar Zoltan, Balint Adalbert
and Toth Timea).
and Toth Timea).