Hungary's Viktor Kassai has been designated by the European Football Federation UEFA to referee the Champions League final between Manchester United of England and FC Barcelona of Spain this Saturday in London's Wembley Stadium.

Olympic champions, politicians, television personalities will be active participants in this Sunday’s marathon and half marathon relay race in Budapest – an official Hungarian EU presidency event.

Hungary hosts the Netherlands, the runners-up of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, in Budapest’s Puskas Ferenc Stadium at 8.30 p.m. in a clash of the leading pair in Group E of the qualification stage of the football European Championship Euro 2012.

Ferenc Szõnyi is the fifth man in the world to have completed the double deca ironman competition: 76 kms of swimming, 3,600 kms cycling and 844 kms running. it took him 481 hours, 54 minutes and 10 seconds to finish this race.

Hungary's Ferenc Szõnyi won the world's longest triathlon race, the Double Deka World Challenge 2010 in Monterrey, Mexico, swimming, bicycling and running a distance of over 4,500 kilometers. Last year, he was the world's best in the 10-time triathlon

The aim of the Hungarian Basketball Federation to restore the popularity of the sport in Hungary is on its way to be accomplished. President Ferenc Szalay tells the reason why basketball should be promoted among young people, serious businessmen and diplomats.

Romania and Hungary want to jointly host the 2020 or 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. Talks at government level will start soon in both countries.

13.800 people from 50 countries gathered on the rainy Sunday morning for the Budapest International Marathon and Running Festival where the best known participant was Slovak foreign minister Mikulás Dzurinda.

A Hungarian native speaker from Romania will play American football in the sports’ top league from this season after being drafted by the one of the top teams, the New England Patriots. Zoltán Meskó is one of the few European professionals in the NFL.

Hungarian teenagers continued the country’s great Olympic traditions by excelling at the First Youth Olympics held in Singapore. Hungarian athletes collected 6 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze medals, finishing 8th on the medal table featuring 84 nations.

Hungary won six gold, four silver and four bronze medals at the 30th European Championships in Swimming, Diving, Synchronized and Open Water Swimming in Budapest. This achievement put the host nation into sixth place on the continental medal table. In swimming, Hungary proved to be the fourth most successful country.

No. 7 seed Ágnes Szávay of Hungary defeated Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6-2, 6-4 to defend her 2009 title in the final of the USD 220,000 GDF Suez Grand Prix women's tennis tournament in Budapest Sunday.