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Hungary at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Medals

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Hungary	8	6	3	17

Gold:

• Athletics - Discus Throw, Róbert Fazekas (disputed)
• Athletics - Hammer Throw, Adrián Annus (disputed)
• Fencing - Individual Epee, Tímea Nagy.
• Shooting - Skeet, Diána Igaly
• Water polo - Men's: Tibor Benedek, Péter Biros, Rajmund Fodor, István Gergely, Tamás Kásás, Gergely Kiss, Norbert Madaras, Tamás Molnár, Ádám Steinmetz, Barnabás Steinmetz, Zoltán Szécsi, Tamás Varga, Attila Vári.
• Modern Pentathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's: Zsuzsa Vörös
• Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  • K1 500 metre women: Natasa Janics
  • K2 500 metre women: Katalin Kovács, Natasa Janics
  • K4 1000 metre men: Zoltán Kammerer, Botond Storcz, Ákos Vereckei, Gábor Horváth
• Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg: István Majoros

Silver:

• Fencing - Individual Sabre, Zsolt Nemcsik
• Fencing - Men's Team Epee
• Swimming - 200 m Breaststroke, Dániel Gyurta
• Weightlifling - 69 kg, Eszter Krutzler
• Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  • K4 500 metre women: Katalin Kovács, Szilvia Szabó, Erzsébet Viski, Kinga Bóta

Bronze:

• Athletics - Discus Throw, Zoltán Kövágó (disputed, maybe silver medal)
• Swimming - 400 m Individual Medley, László Cseh
• Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics:
  • C2 1000 metre men: György Kozmann, György Kolonits
  • C1 1000 metre men: Attila Vajda

Results by event

Athletics

Men's 100 metres:

• Roland Németh - Round 1: 10.28 s, Round 2: 10.38 s
• Gábor Dobos - Round 1: 10.68 s

Men's 110 metre hurdles:

• Levente Csillag - Round 1: 13.74 s

Men's 200 metres:

• Géza Pauer - Round 1: 21.02 s, Round 2: 20.90 s

Men's 400 metres:

• Zsolt Szeglet - Round 1: 46.15 s

Women's 1500 metres:

• Judit Varga - Round 1: 4:09.36

Women's 5000 metres:

• Krisztina Papp - Round 1: 15:58.44

Women's 10000 metres:

• Aniko Kalovics - 32:21.47 (20th place)

Men's decathlon:

• Attila Zsivóczky - 8287 points (6th place)

Women's marathon:

• Simona Staicu - 2:48:57 (45th place)
• Beata Rakonczai - 2:49:41 (48th place)
• Ida Kovacs - 3:03:21 (60th place)

Men's 20 km walk:

• Gyula Dudas – 1:28:18 (30th place)

Women's 20 km walk:

• Edina Fusti - 1:39:45 (44th place)

Men's 50 km walk:

• Zoltan Czukor – 4:03:51 (24th place)
• Janos Toth – 4:29:33 (41st place)

Men's long jump:

• Tamas Margl - Round 1, 7.38 metres (did not advance)

Women's long jump:

• Tunde Vaszi - Round 1: 6.55 metres, Final: 6.73 metres (8th place)
• Zita Ajkler - Round 1: 6.39 metres

Men's triple jump:

• Peter Tolgyesi - Round 1, 16.36 metres (did not advance)

Men's high jump:

• Laszlo Boros - Round 1, 2.15 metres (did not advance)

Women's pole vault:

• Krisztina Molnar - Round 1: 4.30 metres

Men's shot put:

• Zsolt Biber - Round 1, 19.31 metres (did not advance)

Women's shot put:

• Eva Kurti - Round 1: 14.60 metres

Men's discus:

• Zoltan Kovago - Final, 67.04 (silver medal)
• Gabor Mate - Final, 57.84 (11th place)
• Robert Fazekas - Final, DQ

Women's discus:

• Eva Kurti - Round 1: 52.52 metres

Men's javelin:

• Gergely Horvath - Round 1, 73.95 metres (did not advance)

Women's javelin:

• Nikolett Szabo - Round 1: 60.20 metres

Men's hammer:

• Krisztian Pars - Final, 78.73 metres (5th place)
• Adrian Annus - Final, DQ

Women's hammer:

• Katalin Divos - Round 1: 67.64 metres
• Julianna Tudja - Round 1: 66.85 metres
• Eva Orban - Round 1: 65.76 metres

Boxing

Hungary sent five boxers to Athens. In the first round, two were defeated while two advanced by winning and a third received a bye. All three that advanced lost in the round of 16. Their combined record was 2-5.

Light Flyweight (48kg)

• Pal Bedak
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Jeyhun Abiyev of Azerbaijan, 23-8

Bantamweight (54kg)

• Zsolt Bedak
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Abner Mares Martinez of Mexico, 36-27
  2. Round of 16 - Lost to Maksym Tretyak of Ukraine, 27-24

Lightweight (60kg)

• Gyula Kate
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Jong Sub Baik of Korea, 30-23

Welterweight (69kg)

• Vilmos Balog
  1. Round of 32 - Bye
  2. Round of 16 - Lost to Juan Camilo Novoa Aguinaga of Colombia, 33-24

Middleweight (75kg)

• Karoly Balzsay
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Sahraoui Mohamed of Tunisia, 29-24
  2. Round of 16 - Lost to Yordani Despaigne Herrera of Cuba, 38-25

Diving

Women's 3 metre springboard:

• Nora Barta - Prelim: 279.24, Semifinal: 212.28 (14th place)
• Villo Kormos - Prelim: 193.68 (32nd place)

Fencing

Men's épée individual:

• Ivan Kovacs - defeated in round of 16
• Geza Imre - defeated in round of 32
• Gabor Boczko - defeated in round of 32

Women's épée individual:

• Timea Nagy - gold medal
• Ildiko Mincza-Nebald - 4th place
• Adrienn Hormay - defeated in round of 32

Women's foil individual:

• Aida Mohamed - 4th place
• Gabriella Varga - defeated in quarterfinals

Men's sabre individual:

• Zsolt Nemcsik - silver medal
• Domonkos Ferjancsik - defeated in round of 16
• Balazs Lengyel - defeated in round of 32

Women's sabre individual:

• Orsolya Nagy - defeated in round of 32

Men's épée team:

• Gabor Boczko, Krisztian Kulcsar , and Ivan Kovacs - silver medal

Women's épée team:

• Ildiko Mincza-Nebald, Adrienn Hormay and Hajnalka Toth - 5th place

Men's sabre team:

• Zsolt Nemcsik, Kende Fodor , and Domonkos Ferjancsik - 5th place

Handball

Men's: 4th place

• Preliminary round: 4-0-1
• Quarterfinal: defeated Korea, 30-25
• Semifinal: lost to Croatia, 33-31
• Bronze medal match: lost to Russia, 28-26

Women's: 5th place

• Preliminary round: 3-0-1
• Quarterfinal: lost to France, 25-23
• Classification (5-8): defeated Brazil, 36-31
• Classification (5/6): defeated Spain, 38-29

Triathlon

Hungary sent two triathletes to the second Olympic triathlon. Both were veterans of four years earlier, though neither did as well as they had before.

Women's:

• Erika Molnar - 2:17:53.38 (38th place)

Men's:

• Csaba Kuttor - DNS

Water polo

Men's: gold medal

• Preliminary round: 5-0-0
• Semifinal: Defeated Russia, 7-5
• Gold medal game: Defeated Serbia and Montenegro, 8-7

Women's: 6th place

• Preliminary round: 1-2-0
• Quarterfinal: Lost to Italy, 8-5
• Classification 5/6: Lost to Russia, 12-11

Officials

• President: Pál Schmitt
• Secretary General: Tamás Aján

External link

• Official Website