Top seed Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan won the singles title at the USD 235,000 WTA Hungarian Grand Prix women's clay court tennis tournament in Budapest, as she easily defeated Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina in Sunday's final. The doubles title of the tournament went to the Hungarian-Romanian duo of Fanny Stollár and Mihaela Buzarnescu. The Római Tennis […]
Gáspár Csere, the athlete of the Budapest club BEAC won the half marathon on Sunday at the 36th Telekom Vivicittá running festival. Csere won the 21.1-kilometer race, the longest distance run at the traditional Budapest event, for the third time after 2011 and 2016. Julianna Nagy of Margitszigeti AC won the women's race. Although the […]
Hungary's top-ranked tennis player, Márton Fucsovics has made it to the last eight in the men's singles event at The Championships Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon, England by beating No. 5 seed Russian Andrey Rublev in five sets: 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3. As the competition's website notes, this is the first time that the […]
Three-time Olympic champion swimmer Katinka Hosszú and 20-year-old footballer Dominik Szoboszlai, who plays for the RB Leipzig in the German Bundesliga, are tied for the most valuable Hungarian sportsperson of the year in Forbes magazine's list. Hosszú has long been a top sportsperson while Szoboszlai's good play and a winning goal against Iceland helped the […]
The Hungarian national football (soccer) team lost 0-3 to Portugal in the opening match of Group F at the European Championship at the Puskás Arena in Budapest this Tuesday. As expected Portugal - with superstar Cristiano Ronaldo in the starting line-up - dominated the first half with the Hungarian side mostly defending, rarely being able […]
Hungary's Katinka Hosszú finished third in the 200-meter individual medley at the European Swimming Championship in Budapest this Saturday, which makes her the most successful female swimmer in the history of European championships. Despite the fact that this has been the first time that the three times Olympic, nine times world and 15 times European […]
Hungarian Sándor Puhl, voted four times as the world's best referee, has died at the age of 65, the Hungarian Football Federation (MLSZ) has reported. Born in 1955 in the northeastern Hungarian city of Miskolc, obtained his license in 1970, at the age of 15, and since 1982, he has officiated hundreds of matches in […]
The European Judo Association (EJU) has named Hungary's Richárd Sipőcz as the best junior competitor last year. The Hungarian state news agency MTI reports that according to judoinfo.hu magazine, the judoka of Széchenyi University SE and his coach, Nikolett Gyimes have been invited to the EJU awards ceremony, which will take place next Friday during […]
The Hungarian women's handball team made it to the Tokyo Olympics postponed to this summer as Russia defeated Kazakhstan 33-26 in Saturday's second round of the qualifying tournament. This result at the qualification tournament in Győr, NW Hungary decided that the Hungarians would finish in one of the first two places that are worth Olympic […]
The Hungarian women's saber fencing team finished seventh at the World Cup event in Budapest and qualified for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games as the Ukrainians finished eighth. This is the first time ever for the Hungarian national saber fencing team to win Olympic qualification. The members of the team that achieved this success are […]
Shaoang Liu of Hungary was crowned overall champion at the 2021 ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Dordrecht, the Netherlands this Sunday – with a huge helping hand from his brother, Shaolin Sándor Liu. As the tournament's website puts it, "the Liu siblings put on a tactical masterclass to help 22-year-old Shaoang seize […]
Hungary's top-ranked tennis player, Márton Fucsovics has made it to the third round in the men's singles of the Australian Open in Melbourne by beating No. 17 seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in five sets: 7:5, 6:1, 4:6, 2:6, 7:6 (11-9). Fucsovics (No. 55 in the world rankings) won the closely contested first set against the […]
All obstacles to the continuation of the Hungarian Grand Prix WTA women's tennis tournament in Budapest had been removed, license owner Jenő Márky told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday. After a spell of seven years (2014-20) in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, the Hungarian Grand Prix will again take place on July 12-18, 2021 […]
Both Tímea Babos and Márton Fucsovics mad it to to the second reound at this year's Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. The third Hungarian in the main draw, Attila Balázs will taken on his first round opponent tomorrow. Celebrating his 29th birthday, Fucsovics (No. 55 in the world rankings) took on local player world […]
Olympic, three-time world and six-time European champion gymnast Krisztián Berki announced his retirement at an online press conference of the Hungarian Gymnastics Federation (MATSZ). At the age of 35, Krisztián Berki decided not to compete anymore. He is Olympic gold medalist (2012, London), three-time world champion (2010, 2011, 2014), two-time World Cup silver medalist (2007, […]
