2. Some of the Olympic Champions
of Hungary
Katalin Kovács, Natasa Janics István Kovács (Koko)
László Cseh
3. The Hungarian sportsmen have
had a successfull participation
in the first Olympic Games in
1896 in Athenes
Alfréd Hajós,
has
won the
100 and 1200
meters swimming
in freestyle.
4. The most successful
participation
of the Hungarian Olympic team was during the
Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, where
the Hungarian team reached the third place
on the medal table behind the USA and the
Soviet Union:
16 gold,
10 silver and
16 bronze medals.
5. Only three amateur boxers lived in the
world, who could be three times
Olympic Champion – one of them was
Hungarian
Teofilo Stevenson
(1972,1976,1980)
Felix Savon László Papp
(1992,1996,
2000) (1948, 1952, 1956)
6. Hungary is the most successful nation in waterpolo in
the history of the Olympic Games.
Hungary won 9 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals.
The Olympic team won in
1932, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1976, 2000, 2004, 2008
9. The Golden Team
• It has a remarkable
football history,
having won three
Olympic titles,
finishing runners-up
in the 1938 and
1954 FIFA World
Cups, and third in
the
1964 UEFA European
Football
Championship.
• The most famous
Hungarian national
football team in the
17. And the others
„….Would you get a nicer present, than the one which shows you how
lucrative your hard work is?”
Comenius
18. They reached
their aims.
Zoltán Magyar Olympic Champion in gymnastics in
1976 in Montreal and in 1980 in Moscow
Editor's Notes
… , hogy a magyar sport számára legsikeresebb olimpiai szereplést az 1952-es Helsinkiben rendezett olimpián való szereplés jelentette, ahol a pontversenyben harmadik helyet szereztünk meg az USA és a Szovjetunió mögött 16 arany-, 10 ezüst- és 16 bronzéremmel. Foci csapat kard csapat
… , hogy a világon mindössze három amatőr ökölvívó van, aki képes volt három olimpiai bajnoki címet is gyűjteni. Két kubai, Teofilo Stevenson (1972,1976,1980) illetve Felix Savon (1992,1996, 2000) valamint a magyar Papp László , aki 1948-ban, 1952-ben és 1956-ban is diadalmaskodott az olimpiai ökölvívó tornán.
