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List Of Olympic Female Gymnasts For Hungary
Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. Hungarian female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932 and 1984. A total of 50 female gymnasts have represented Hungary. Hungarian women have won 23 medals at the Olympics – 5 in team all-around, 2 in team portable apparatus, 2 in individual all-around, 2 in balance beam, 5 in floor exercise, 5 in uneven bars, and 2 in vault. The medals include 7 golds."Hungary Gymnastics" sports-reference.com. Retrieved July 14, 2013. Five Hungarian female gymnasts have won at least four medals at the Olympic Games: (10), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics (AG), which consists of, for women (WAG), the events floor, vault, uneven bars, and beam; and for men (MAG), the events floor, vault, rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The governing body for gymnastics throughout the world is the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Eight sports are governed by the FIG, which include gymnastics for all, men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining (including double mini-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Törös
Olga Törös (4 August 1914 – 16 February 2015) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where she won a bronze medal in the women's team competition. Born in Debrecen, she was selected for the 1936 Games by a delegation attending a national tournament that was being held in her home town. Following the Olympics she received a degree in Physical Education from Semmelweis University and moved to Kecskemét in 1939, where she worked as a teacher for thirty five years. She received the Woman's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hungarian Olympic Committee in 2011 and turned 100 in August 2014. She died on 16 February 2015 at the age of 100. See also * List of centenarians (sportspeople) The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as sportspeople — known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians. References {{Longevity Centenarians A centena .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's Artistic Team All-around
The women's artistic team all-around competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 13 and 14 August. It was the third appearance of the event. Competition format The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format used in 1928 and 1936, the previous appearances of the event. The parallel bars, however, were replaced by the flying rings (the only time women competed using the flying rings in the OlympicsEach nation entered a team of eight gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise on the vault and beam, and a compulsory exercise on the flying rings, with the scores summed to give a final total. Each team also performed two group exercises. The top six individual scores on each team and the two group exercises were summed to give a team all-around score. No individual medals (for either all-around or apparatus) were awarded for women. Results See also * Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1948 Summer Olympics
At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, nine events in gymnastics were contested. Finland led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall. Shortly after the Czechoslovak team arrived in London, 22 year old team member Eliška Misáková was taken ill and confined to an iron lung. She died of infantile paralysis on the same day that her teammates competed. When the Czechoslovak flag was raised at the medal ceremony, it was bordered with a black ribbon. Medal table Men's events Women's events † Within the sport of artistic gymnastics, although men were recognized with individual medals at the time, the women weren’t. The list of the individual medalists within this table reflects the individuals who garnered a top-three placement in the team competition on the respective apparatus (or all 3 combined, in the case of the all-around) and who would have been awarded a medal with the rules that commenced with the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games and that would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margit Nagy-Sándor
Margit Nagy-Sándor (29 May 1921 – 15 January 2001) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ..., winning a team bronze and a team silver medal, respectively. References 1921 births 2001 deaths Hungarian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Hungary Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian women 21st-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Fehér
Anna Fehér (24 September 1921 – 30 December 1999) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References 1921 births 1999 deaths Hungarian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Hungary Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Tass
Olga Tass (married name Lemhényi; 29 March 1929 – 10 July 2020) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960 Summer Olympics. She was born in Pécs. Gymnastics career Tass began gymnastics in 1941 but wouldn't be able to make her international debut until after World War II. In 1948 she competed at the Olympic Games and won a silver medal in the team competition. At the 1952 Olympic Games Tass won a silver medal with the Hungarian team and a bronze medal in the team portable apparatus. At her third Olympic Games she won a gold medal in the team portable apparatus, a silver in the team final, and an individual bronze on vault. She competed at her fourth Olympic Games in 1960. With four Olympic appearances, Tass held the record of most appearances by a female gymnast at the Olympics until 2008, when Oksana Chusovitina competed in her fifth Olympic Games. Coaching career Tass studied at the University of Physical Education, becoming a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erzsébet Balázs
Erzsébet Balázs-Baranyai (October 15, 1920 − November 24, 2014) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where she won a silver medal in the women's team competition after replacing an injured Ágnes Keleti. Born in Budapest, she was introduced to gymnastics at the age of 18 and competed out of Postás SE while earning a degree in physical education from Semmelweis University. From 1952 through 1971 she worked as a coach with Budapest Honvéd, becoming the head gymnastics coach in 1960. From there she spent two years at the Debreceni Városi Sportiskola (Debrecen School of Sport) prior to becoming a coach for Hungary's delegation of women gymnasts to the 1976 Summer Olympics and retiring in 1977. She was married to László Baranyai László Baranyai (13 January 1920 – 14 December 1984) was a Hungarian gymnast, born in Budapest. He competed in gymnastics events at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irén Daruházi-Karcsics
Irén Daruházi-Karcsics (18 March 1927 – 13 October 2011) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin .... References 1927 births 2011 deaths Hungarian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Hungary Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian women 21st-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mária Zalai-Kövi
Mária Zalai-Kövi (20 October 1924 – 28 October 2013) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics. She was born in Târgu Mureș, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S .... At the London Olympics in 1948, she won silver in the team competition. At the 1952 Olympic Games, Zalai-Kövi won a silver medal with the Hungarian team and a bronze medal in the team portable apparatus. References 1924 births 2013 deaths Hungarian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Hungary Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edit Perényi-Weckinger
Edit Perényi-Weckinger (5 May 1923 – 1 February 2019)Edit Perényi-Weckinger's obituary was a Hungarian who competed in the and in the . She was born in |
Gymnastics At The 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's Artistic Team All-around
The women's artistic team all-around competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 12 August. It was the second appearance of the event.Official Olympic Report la84.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019. Competition format The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928, when women's gymnastics debuted at the Olympic Games. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise on each of the three apparatus, with the scores summed to give a final total. Each team also performed two group exercises. The top six individual scores on each team and the two group exercises were summed to give a team all-around score. No individual medals (for either all ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
