Achieving his best results in the long jump, Balogh was a multiple Hungarian Athletics Championships winner, Universiade medalist and Olympic participant.

Competing in sprint events, decathlon and long jump, Balogh achieved his best results in the latter one, winning four Hungarian Athletics Championships titles (1928, 1930, 1931, 1933).

In 1946 he was promoted to Deputy Head of the Energy Policy Division of Ministry of Industry, however, a year later he was arrested by the Communists with the fabricated charge of conspiration against the state.

Among his notable works are the stadium of Pécsi VSK, the training fields of the Népstadion and the facilities of Vasas SC and Budapest Honvéd SE.

[2] Balogh married to Anna Kael, a fellow sportswoman and silver medalist of World Gymnastics Championships in 1934.