Hungarians in Athens

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Hungarians in Athens
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Igaly Diána

• Skeet
• Tiny disks are being shot off into the sky.
  She/he who shots down the most disks out of 100
  shootings will win the competition. After the
  second series ( i.e. 25X2 shootings)with only
  three targets missed she came up to the second
  place. All the shootings from the third series
  were faultless (hit the disks). Thus she entered
  the sixth final.
• At the end where there were only four shootings
  left, merely one would have been suffice to win
  the competition. But she didnt miss any. Well
  done! At the age of 39 she became an Olimpic
  Champion.

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Nagy Tímea

• The first epée-fencing championship was held in
  1989.
• In Sydney, 2000 AD, she managed to win the Gold
  Medal.After that she wanted to be a mother for
  the second time. Therefore she gave birth to her
  second child, but she had never given up the idea
  of a glorious comeback. Her dream to become a
  champion came true, when at 34 she managed to
  fight herself into the Olimpic Team. What more,
  on the second day she managed to become a
  CHAMPION winning the 150th gold medal for
  Hungary.(since 1896)

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Vörös Zsuzsanna

• Pentathlon
• Three-times champion before she set out having
  the best chances to win. Out of 81 matches in
  fencing she won 19.
• In swimming after 200 m her advantage was huge.
  The most uncertain part of pentathlon is the
  horse-riding. She made only two mistakes at
  jumping over the hurdles.
• 3000m running can be very tiring. She was ahead
  of the others with 41 seconds and ran the last
  500 m with Hungarys national flag in her hand,
  to the joy of her fans and became an Olimpic
  Champion.

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Janics Natasa

• Kayak / Canoe - 500 m Women
• She was born in Jugoslavia 22 years before the
  Olimpics in Athens (2004.) In Sydney 2000, she
  managed to occupy the fourth place.
• At the age of 17 she was trained in Hungary by a
  Hungarian coach. She had got her Hungarian
  citizenship some months before the Olimpics
  started and thus the International Olimpic
  Committee allowed her to represent Hungary in
  Athens.
• Before the Olimpic Games 2004, she won the
  European Championship as well.
• She won the finals in Athens with an enormous
  lead. The fans favourite by now, she came back
  home as most popular Hungarian sportswoman.
• Shorlty after her race she said Im the
  happiest person in the world.

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Janics Natasa Kovács Katalin

• Kayak-canoe - 500 m Double /Women
• We Hungarians cannot do well without the names
  Kovács.
• Let me explain
• Olimpic Champions
• 1992 Antal Kovács
  (judo)
• 1996 István Kovács (boxing)
• 2000. Ágnes Kovács (swimming)
• 2004. Katalin Kovács (canoe)
• First defeating the Hungarian World Champion and
  then the Hungarian Champion pair they got free
  way to the Olimpic Games in Athens.
• One hour after Natasa won the Gold Medal in
  individual race, she had to paddle again together
  with her former adversary Katalin Kovács. And it
  was they who passed the finish-line first.

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Majoros István

• Graeco- Roman Wrestling 55 kg Majoros István
• Firstly, he had to lose some weight (12 kg in a
  month)
• The fourth week was a real nightmare three
  workouts per day, no food, only a few drops of
  water during the day. He had to get rid of 2l of
  water on a single workout without having to drink
  more than 2,5 dl to compensate the losses.
• Secondly,he had to recover from a serious injury.
  Before the competition, however, he realised he
  had a slipped disk. Thirdly, he had to focus on
  wrestling only. It was not quite as easy as that
  for him, because his father had died just a few
  months before. In spite of all these drawbacks
  and hardships, the 30 year old wrestler worked
  miracles. After legging behind a bit in points,
  he got the upperhand on his four successive
  opponents and thus he won all four fights.

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Férfi Kajak Négyes

• Kayak/Canoe Quartet Men 1000m
• Kammerer Zoltán, Storcz Botond,Vereckei Ákos,
  Horváth Gábor)
• Kayak canoe has been proved lately to be the most
  succesful Hungarian sport-branch.
• Before preparing to Athens, they were given the
  best chances for winning one of the gold-medals.
• They took tha lead from the very beginning and
  won with a huge advantage. On the last metres
  before entering the finish line, Kammerer even
  stopped rowing, then Vereckei did the same and
  throw his oars away. Then they immedialtely
  turned into water in order to express their
  exitement. Thousands of spectators applanuded
  them fervently. They have never witnessed
  something like that before. This magnificent
  Hungarian quartet defended their Olimpic Champion
  title for the second time.

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Magyar Férfi Vízilabda Válogatott

• Benedek Tibor,Biros Péter,Fodor Rajmund,Gergely
  István,Kásás Tamás,Kiss Gergely, Madaras
  Norbert,Molnár tamás,Steinmetz Ádám,Steinmetz
  Barnabás,Varga Tamás, váry attila.
• The Hungarian Water-Polo Team /Men
• Dénes Kemény became their coach in 1997. Since
  then, during the last 7 years they were 10 times
  finalists on 14 different competitions worldwide.
  They got the Gold-Medal 8 times. Out of these 8,
  seven received on the Olimpics.
• A match lasts for 28 minutes (4X7) In the final
  we played against the serbs. First they took the
  lead (30) then 75, but in the last 13 minutes
  our guys plucked up courage and fought like lions
  scoring 3 more goals to the serb goalkeeper. So
  the final score was 87 to us, giving back our
  hopes, cheerfulners and the greatfeeling of
  honest joy.
• More than 8000 spectators followed the match on
  the spot and several millions on TV.

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• Hungary occupied the 13th place in the rank of
  nations in Athens 2004.
• In the history of Olimpics from 1896 to 2004
• Hungary obtained the 7th place in the general
  classification.
• Out of 130 nations this classification is a very
  nice one.
• We all are proud of Them!