Hungary has had great success in Olympic competition, winning 42 gold medals. Some notable Hungarian Olympic champions include Alfréd Hajós, who won gold in swimming in 1896, and water polo teams that have won 9 gold medals. Hungary also excelled in boxing, with three boxers winning three Olympic titles each. Famous Hungarian footballers include Ferenc Puskás and Flórián Albert. Many Hungarian athletes got their start in sports through programs at schools like Telepy School.

1. Sports and Games

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

7. Canoeing

8. Football History
Ferenc Puskás
Ferenc Bene
Flórián Albert
The only
Hungarian goldball
winner

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 Foo
.
• The most famous
Hungarian national
football team in the
20th century, was
the Golden Team,

11. Famous players
Zoltán Gera Balázs Dzsudzsák

12. Sports in Telepy School -
the beginnings

13. Our gymnasts
Levente Vágner, 4th. place on the firts Youth Olympic Games in
Singapore 2010

15. Our table tennis players
Tamás Lakatos, 4th place on the firts Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010

16. Our boxers
Zoltán Harcsa, bronze medal winner at the first Youth Olympic Games in
Singapore 2010

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