Janos Garay won three Olympic Medals for Hungary in the Sabre event. He won a Team gold medal at the 1928 Amerstdam Games, and an Individual bronze and Team silver four years earlier at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

In 1925, Garay captured the Individual European Sabre Championship gold medal, and a Team Sabre gold medal at the 1930 Europeans. The European Championships were predecessor to the World Championships, first held in 1937.

Garay perished in the Mauthausen (Austria) concentration camp in 1945, shortly before the end of World War II.