Hungary at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Hungary at the Olympic Games
Flag of Hungary
IOC code:	HUN
NOC:	Hungarian Olympic Committee external link (Hungarian)
2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Flag bearer	Antal Kovács
Medals Rank: 13	Gold 8	Silver 6	Bronze 3	Total 17
Summer Olympic Games appearances
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004
Winter Olympic Games appearances
1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006

Hungary competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

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 - Women's: Zsuzsanna 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

[edit] Silver

Athletics - Discus Throw, Zoltán Kővágó
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

[edit] Bronze

Swimming - 400 m Individual Medley, László Cseh
Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics:
- C2 1000 metre men: György Kozmann, György Kolonics
- C1 1000 metre men: Attila Vajda

[edit] Results by event

[edit] 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 Kálovics - 32:21.47 (20th place)

Men's decathlon:

Attila Zsivóczky - 8287 points (6th place)

Women's marathon:

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

Men's 20 km walk:

Gyula Dudás – 1:28:18 (30th place)

Women's 20 km walk:

Edina Füsti - 1:39:45 (44th place)

Men's 50 km walk:

Zoltán Czukor – 4:03:51 (24th place)
János Tóth – 4:29:33 (41st place)

Men's long jump:

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

Women's long jump:

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

Men's triple jump:

Péter Tölgyesi - Round 1, 16.36 metres (did not advance)

Men's high jump:

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

Women's pole vault:

Krisztina Molnár - Round 1: 4.30 metres

Men's shot put:

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

Women's shot put:

Éva Kürti - Round 1: 14.60 metres

Men's discus:

Zoltán Kővágó - Final, 67.04 (silver medal)
Gábor Máté - Final, 57.84 (11th place)
Róbert Fazekas - Final, DQ

Women's discus:

Éva Kürti - Round 1: 52.52 metres

Men's javelin:

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

Women's javelin:

Nikolett Szabó - Round 1: 60.20 metres

Men's hammer:

Krisztián Pars - Final, 78.73 metres (5th place)
Adrián Annus - Final, DQ

Women's hammer:

Katalin Divós - Round 1: 67.64 metres
Julianna Tudja - Round 1: 66.85 metres
Éva Orbán - Round 1: 65.76 metres

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)

Pál Bedák
1. Round of 32 - Lost to Jeyhun Abiyev of Azerbaijan, 23-8

Bantamweight (54kg)

Zsolt Bedák
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 Káté
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 of Colombia, 33-24

Middleweight (75kg)

Károly 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

[edit] Canoeing

Men's C1 500 metres:

Márton Joób - final, 7th place

Men's C1 1000 metres:

Attila Vajda - final, bronze medal

Men's C2 500 metres:

György Kozmann and György Kolonics - final, 7th place

Men's C2 1000 metres:

György Kozmann and György Kolonics - final, bronze medal

Men's K1 500 metres:

Ákos Vereckei - final, 5th place

Women's K1 500 metres:

Natasa Janics - final, gold medal

Men's K1 1000 metres:

Roland Kökény - final, 6th place

Men's K2 500 metres:

Zoltán Kammerer and Botond Storcz - final, 5th place

Women's K2 500 metres:

Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics - final, gold medal

Men's K2 1000 metres:

Zoltán Benkő and István Beé - final, 9th place

Women's K4 500 metres:

Katalin Kovács, Szilvia Szabó, Erzsébet Viski, and Kinga Bóta - final, silver medal

Men's K4 1000 metres:

Zoltán Kammerer, Botond Storcz, Ákos Vereckei, Gábor Horváth - final, gold medal

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road cycling

Men's road race:

László Bodrogi - 74th place, 5:56:45

Men's time trial:

László Bodrogi - 21st place, 1:00:38.05

[edit] Mountain biking

Men's cross country:

Zsolt Vinczeffy - 43rd place, -2 laps

[edit] Diving

Women's 3 metre springboard:

Nóra Barta - Prelim: 279.24, Semifinal: 212.28 (14th place)
Villő Kormos - Prelim: 193.68 (32nd place)

Men's 10 metre platform:

András Hajnal - preliminary, 33rd place

[edit] Fencing

Men's épée individual:

Iván Kovács - defeated in round of 16
Géza Imre - defeated in round of 32
Gábor Boczkó - defeated in round of 32

Women's épée individual:

Tímea Nagy - gold medal
Ildikó Mincza-Nebald - 4th place
Adrien 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
Balázs Lengyel - defeated in round of 32

Women's sabre individual:

Orsolya Nagy - defeated in round of 32

Men's épée team:

Gabor Boczkó, Krisztián Kulcsár, and Iván Kovács - silver medal

Women's épée team:

Ildikó Mincza-Nebald, Adrienn Hormay and Hajnalka Tóth - 5th place

Men's sabre team:

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

[edit] Gymnastics

Men's artistic:

Róbert Gál - advanced in one exercise
- Vault - 6th place

Women's artistic:

Krisztina Szarka - did not advance in any exercise

[edit] 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

[edit] Judo

Men's 66 kg:

Miklós Ungvári - defeated in round of 16

Men's 100 kg:

Antal Kovács - defeated in round of 32

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Men's

Gábor Balogh - 5296 pts, 8th place
Ákos Kállai - 5132 pts, 18th place

Women's:

Zsuzsanna Vörös - 5448 pts, gold medal
Csilla Füri - 5144 pts, 12th place

[edit] Sailing

Men's 470 class

Péter Czégai, Csaba Cserép - 27th place

Men's Finn class

Balázs Hajdú - 23rd place

Men's Sailboard

Áron Gádorfalvi - 22nd place

Women's 470 class

Márta Weöres, Anna Payr - 19th place

Women's Sailboard

Lívia Győrbíró - 24th place

[edit] 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: