She won a gold medal in the European Championships in Athletics in 1938 in unusual circumstances.

She was a Hungarian Jew; she was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Olympics in Berlin in 1936.

[2] Csák won the gold medal in the 1938 European championships after the original winner, Germany's Dora Ratjen, turned out to be a man.

The height Csák cleared in that event was the Hungarian record for the high jump for the next 24 years.

Between 1936 and 1970, she worked in the central office of the Hungarian Banknote Printing Co. She had two children, Ibolya (1940) and Attila (1942).