He started his television career in 1970 on Hungarian television. He led the sport section between 1990 and 1991.
He was a member of the IAAF Council from 1984 until 2001, and from 1991 until his death he was the General Secretary of the IAAF. During his years in the council, he still worked for the Hungarian Television as well.
On 7 October 2006 the athletics stadium in Debrecen, Hungary was rededicated the István Gyulai Athletics Stadium in his honour. Five years after his death, the Gyulai István Memorial – Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix was launched in his honour, with his younger son Márton acting as meeting director.[3]
His first wife, middle-distance runner
Winter Olympics. His younger son, Márton Gyulai is a former pilot of the Hungarian bobsleigh team having driven both the 2-man and the 4-man sled in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. The idea of the boys trying themselves out in bobsleigh came from their father and a close family friend, Andrew Frankl (father of Nicholas Frankl
).
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, his biography "A Királynő Helytartója: Gyulai István életrajzi regénye" was published in Hungarian with 2500 copies available online.
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