Table tennis player Péter Pálos won the second gold medal for Hungary at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, while the country’s third gold at this competition came in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke event that was won by Fanni Illés. Péter Pálos defeated Samuel Philip von Einem of Australia 3 sets to 2 in the final. The […]
Hungary's Amarilla Veres won the women's epée individual - Category A event in wheelchair fencing at the Tokyo Paralympics this Thursday. This is the first paralympic gold for Hungary in fencing since 1996. In the final bout, she faced Jing Rong of China who took a 4-1 lead but the competitor came back to level […]
The Hungarian athletes, medalists and medal winners of the Tokyo Olympics were welcomed by officials and fans at the BOK Hall in Budapest on Monday. At the ceremony, which was attended by hundreds of supporters, the President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Krisztián Kulcsár, underlined that "the Hungarian Olympians are now being welcomed with the […]
The Hungarian national team beat Spain 9-5 on the last day of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games to clinch the third place. All in all, Hungary finished 15th on the medal table with six gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals. After thirteen years, the Hungarian men's water polo team won another medal at the […]
In the women's kayak four 500-meter final, the Hungarian team defended their title to win the sixth gold for Hungary in Tokyo 2020, while the country's national team defeated the Russian Olympic Committee side in women's water polo to take the bronze medal. The Hungarian quartet won the women's kayak 500-meter event confidently in London […]
Sarolta Kovács in women's modern pentathlon and Gábor Hárspataki in karate finished third this Friday at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, producing the 16th and 17th medal for Hungary. Following the fencing and swimming legs of the modern pentathlon held on Thursday, 30-year-old Sarolta Kovács, the 2017 individual world champion of this sport, did well […]
In the men's kayak single 200-meter event, Hungary's Sándor Tótka needed a photo finish to be declared the winner, Tamara Csipes finished second in the women's kayak single 500-meter event while the second silver of the day for Hungary was produced by Kristóf Rasovszky in the men's 10-kilometer open water swim race. According to the […]
Hungary’s Viktor Lőrincz lost Wednesday's final of the Greco-Roman wrestling 87 kg category at the Tokyo Olympics and had to be content with the silver medal. The 31-year-old had a reason to take revenge on two-time world and three-time European champion and Rio Olympics silver medalist Zhan Belenyuk of Ukraine after losing to that ace […]
Hungary's Tamás Lőrincz won the Olympic championship title in the Greco-Roman wrestling 77 kg category at the Tokyo Games after defeating Kyrgyzstan's Akzsol Mahmudov 2-1 in Tuesday's final - the second gold medal for the Hungarian delegation on this day. The 34-year-old wrestler crowned his career with this success after winning a world and four […]
Hungarian paddlers Bálint Kopasz and Ádám Varga have won a double victory for their country in the men's single kayak 1,000-meter event held in the Sea Forest Waterway at the Tokyo Olympic Games this Tuesday. The Hungarian medal collection was also enriched with a another silver and a bronze meal - both in water sports. […]
Alpine's French driver Esteban Ocon won the 36th Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring on Sunday. It was the 24-year-old driver's first career victory. At the rainy start, defending champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) got away from pole position, but his team-mate, Valtteri Bottas misjudged the first braking distance, causing a pile-up: his car […]
Hungary’s Kristóf Milák won the silver medal in the men’s 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday with a European record. Milák, the winner of 200m butterfly event this Wednesday, swam in the final with the next to 100m freestyle winner Caeleb Dressel of the United States, the favorite in the 100m butterfly. The […]
World champion and world record holder Kristóf Milák won the gold medal in the 200m butterfly with an Olympic record on Wednesday at the Tokyo Games. The other Hungarian competitor in the event, Tamás Kenderesi, finished fourth. The 21-year-old world-class swimmer was already in the lead in the first 50 meters, despite the usual strong […]
Gergely Siklósi, competing in the first Olympics of his career, won the silver medal in the men's individual epée event at the Tokyo Games on Sunday. The 23-year-old world number one and defending world champion lost 15-10 to France's Romain Cannone in the final. Siklósi fought with freat spirit all day long in Hall B […]
Just like in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro five years ago, Áron Szilágyi won the men's individual event at the Tokyo Olympics, and with his triple victory he made sporting history. Szilágyi put up a stunning performance all day, and in the evening local time final he produced a superb fencing display to […]
