Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
competed at the
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Hungarian athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except the
1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...
in Antwerp, and the
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...
in Los Angeles because of the
Soviet boycott. The
Hungarian Olympic Committee ( hu, Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, ''MOB'') sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
. A total of 159 athletes, 97 men and 62 women, competed in 18 sports.
Hungary originally left London with a total of 17 medals (8 gold, 4 silver, and 5 bronze), finishing tenth in the overall medal standings. Almost a third of the medals were awarded to the team in sprint canoeing, three in swimming, and two each in judo and wrestling. Three Hungarian athletes, all from sprint canoeing, won more than a single Olympic medal in London. For the first time since
1996
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, Hungary did not win an Olympic medal in men's water polo.
Among the nation's medalists were gymnast
Krisztián Berki, who became the fourth Hungarian to claim the title in
men's pommel horse after 24 years, and hammer thrower
Krisztián Pars
Krisztián Pars (; born 18 February 1982) is a Hungarian hammer thrower. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008, and 2012, winning the gold medal in 2012. He also won the 2012 and 2014 European championships.
Career
His personal be ...
, who narrowly missed out on the medal standings in Beijing.
Katalin Kovács, who won gold and silver in London, emerged as the greatest Hungarian sprint kayaker in history, with a total of eight Olympic medals. Multiple-time European champion
László Cseh, who won bronze in London, became one of the most successful Hungarian swimmers in history, with a total of five Olympic medals. Meanwhile, former Olympic silver medalist
Dániel Gyurta
Dániel Gyurta (; born 4 May 1989) is a Hungarian former competitive swimmer who mainly competed in the 200-metre breaststroke. In 2016, Gyurta became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), he is a member of the European Olympic ...
, set a world record to win the gold in men's breaststroke swimming.
Éva Risztov
Éva Risztov (; born 30 August 1985) is a Hungarian Olympic gold medalist female swimmer.
She won four silver medals at the 2002 European Aquatics Championships and three silver medals at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. She won a furt ...
, who retired from the pool after competing in two of her events, became an Olympic champion in women's open water marathon.
On 7 November 2012, the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
stripped Uzbek wrestler
Soslan Tigiev of his bronze medal after testing positive for the prohibited substance
methylhexaneamine
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.
Gábor Hatos, who lost to Tigiev in the final repechage bout, was subsequently awarded the bronze medal.
Medalists
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Delegation
Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (MOB) selected a team of 159 athletes, 97 men and 62 women, to compete in 18 sports; it was the nation's smallest delegation sent to the Olympics since 1956.
Water polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...
and
men's handball were the only team-based sports in which Hungary had its representation in these Olympic games. There was only a single competitor in road cycling, triathlon, and weightlifting. Swimming was the largest team by sport, with a total of 31 competitors.
The Hungarian team featured past Olympic champions, three of them defending (sprint kayakers
Katalin Kovács and
Nataša Dušev-Janić
Natasa Dusev-Janics ( sr-Latn, Nataša Dušev-Janić, sr-Cyrl, Наташа Душев-Јанић; born 24 June 1982) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed for Hungary since 2001 and has won six Olympic medals in the sprint canoe event ...
, and the men's national water polo team). Dusev-Janics, who won a total of three gold medals for Hungary, previously competed as part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2000. Six Hungarian athletes made their fifth Olympic appearance: sprint canoer and multiple-time Olympic champion
Zoltán Kammerer
Zoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2 ...
, water polo player
Tamás Kásás
Tamás Kásás (; born 20 July 1976) is a retired Hungarian water polo player.
Kásás is often described as the best defensive player of his era, if not the best overall. He is known for his ability to spring out of the water and block shots, ...
, table tennis player
Krisztina Tóth, fencers
Géza Imre and
Aida Mohamed
Aida Mohamed (born 12 March 1976) is a Hungarian foil fencer, silver medallist at the 1993 World Championships and team gold medallist at the 2007 European Championships. She is the only Hungarian athlete in history to have competed at seven ...
, and windsurfer
Áron Gádorfalvi. Double trap shooter
Richárd Bognár, at age 45, was the oldest athlete of the team, while butterfly swimmer
Liliána Szilágyi
Liliána Szilágyi (born 19 November 1996) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in the butterfly events.
Career
She collected two medals (gold and silver) in the 100 and 200 m butterfly at the 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships in ...
was the youngest at age 15.
Péter Biros
Péter Biros (born 5 April 1976) is a Hungarian former water polo player, who played on the gold medal squads at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics, which makes him one of six male athletes who won three Oly ...
, who led his water polo team by winning the gold medal in three consecutive Olympic Games, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Other notable Hungarian athletes featured swimmer and triple Olympic silver medalist
László Cseh, pommel horse gymnast and two-time defending world champion
Krisztián Berki, hammer thrower and multiple-time World Challenge champion
Krisztián Pars
Krisztián Pars (; born 18 February 1982) is a Hungarian hammer thrower. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008, and 2012, winning the gold medal in 2012. He also won the 2012 and 2014 European championships.
Career
His personal be ...
, and sabre fencer
Áron Szilágyi
Áron Szilágyi (; born 14 January 1990) is a Hungarian right-handed sabre fencer.
Szilágyi is a 2018 team European champion, 2015 individual European champion, 2007 team world champion, and 2022 individual world champion.
A four-time Oly ...
.
The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:
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Athletics
Hungarian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):
;Men
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events –
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in Athletics (sport), athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek language, Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ...
;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events –
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...
Boxing
Hungary has so far qualified boxers for the following events
;Men
Canoeing
Sprint
Hungary has qualified boats for the following events
;Men
;Women
Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal); OB = Olympic Best
Cycling
Road
Mountain biking
Diving
;Women
Fencing
Hungary has qualified 4 fencers.
;Men
;Women
Gymnastics
Artistic
Hungary has qualified three athletes.
;Men
;Women
Handball
Men's tournament
;Group play
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals
;Bronze medal game
Judo
;Men
;Women
Modern pentathlon
Hungary has qualified two men and two women.
* Did not finish
Rowing
Hungary has qualified the following boats.
;Men
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Sailing
Hungary has qualified 1 boat for each of the following events
;Men
;Women
Legend: M=Medal race; DNF=Did not finish; EL= Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race;
Shooting
;Men
;Women
Swimming
Swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):
;Men
;Women
Gábor Financsek was designated to compete in 4 × 100 m medley relay, Orsolya Tompa and Brigitta Gregus
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were designated to compete in 4 × 100 m medley relay, Sára Joó and Vivien Kádas were designated to compete in 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, but they did not participate. They are official members of the Hungarian Olympic Team, but they did not compete in any event.
Synchronized swimming
Hungary has qualified 2 quota places in synchronized swimming.
Table tennis
Two Hungarian table tennis players have qualified for the Games. Based on their world ranking on 16 May 2011
Krisztina Tóth and
Georgina Póta qualified for the women's singles.
Tennis
Triathlon
Hungary has qualified the following athletes.
Water polo
Hungary has qualified a men's and a women's team. The team will have 13 athletes.
Men's tournament
;Team roster
;Group play
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals 5–8
;Fifth place game
Women's tournament
;Team roster
;Group play
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals
;Bronze medal game
Weightlifting
Hungary has qualified the following quota places.
Wrestling
Hungary has qualified the following quota place.
;Men's freestyle
;Men's Greco-Roman
;Women's freestyle
References
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Nations at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012
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Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...