Réka Nagy (born 9 November 1986 in

Ajka, Hungary Ajka () is a city in Hungary with about 35,000 inhabitants. It is situated in the hills of Bakony. History Around 1000 BCE, the area was inhabited by Celts. By the second century CE, the territory was conquered by the Romans. The Hungarians occup ...

) is an Olympic swimmer from

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 ...

. She swam for Hungary at the

2008 Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ...

in the 800 m freestyle.Nagy's entry
from sports-reference.com; retrieved 2012-06-06. She has also swum for Hungary at the World Championships in 2005 and the European Junior Championships in

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

References

1986 births Living people People from Ajka Olympic swimmers of Hungary Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Hungarian female freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Veszprém County 20th-century Hungarian women 21st-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-swimming-bio-stub