Hungary at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Hungary at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  HUN
NOC Hungarian Olympic Committee
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At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Competitors
Medals
Rank: 3		 Gold
16		 Silver
10		 Bronze
16		 Total
42
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Hungary competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

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[edit] Medals

Hungary finished in third position in the final medal rankings, behind only the United States and Soviet Union.

[edit] Gold

  • Gábor Benedek, Aladár Kovácsi, and István Szondy — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
  • Károly Takács — Shooting, Men's 25 metres Rapid Fire Pistol (60 Shot)
  • László Jeney, György Vizvári, Dezső Gyarmati, Kálmán Markovits, Antal Bolvári, Id. István Szívós, György Kárpáti, Károly Szittya, Róbert Antal, Dezső Fábián, István Hasznos, Dezső Lemhényi, and Miklós Martin — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
  • Hódos Imre — Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Bantamweight
  • Szilvásy Miklós — Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Welterweight

[edit] Silver

  • Margit Korondi, Ágnes Keleti, Edit Weckinger, Olga Tass, Erzsébet Köteles, Mária Kövi, Andrea Bodó, and Irén Karcsics — Gymnastics, Women's Team Competition
  • Gábor Novák — Canoe / Kayak, Men's Flatwater C1 10.000 metres
  • János Parti — Canoe / Kayak, Men's Flatwater C1 1000 metres (Canoe Single)
  • Gábor Benedek — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
  • Szilárd Kun — Shooting, Men's 25 metres Rapid Fire Pistol (60 Shot)
  • Éva Novák — Swimming, Women's 200 metres Breaststroke
  • Éva Novák — Swimming, Women's 400 metres Freestyle
  • Imre Polyák — Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Featherweight

[edit] Bronze

  • József Gurovits and Ferenc Varga — Canoe / Kayak Flatwater, Men's K2 10,000 metres
  • Tibor Berczelly, Aladár Gerevich, Lajos Maszlay, Endre Palócz, József Sákovits, and Endre Tilli — Fencing, Men's Foil Team Competition
  • Tibor Berczelly — Fencing, Men's Sabre Individual
  • Margit Korondi — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
  • Margit Korondi — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
  • Margit Korondi — Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round
  • Ágnes Keleti — Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
  • Andrea Bodó, Irén Karcsics, Erzsébet Köteles, Ágnes Keleti, Margit Korondi, Edit Weckinger, Olga Tass, and Mária Kövi — Gymnastics, Women's Team Competition Portable Apparatus
  • István Szondy — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
  • Ambrus Balogh — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol (60 Shots)
  • Judit Temes — Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle
  • György Gurics — Wrestling Freestyle, Men's Middleweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Qualification Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Greece (75-38)
  • Lost to Philippines (35-48)
  • Defeated Greece (47-44)
  • Main Round (Group A)
  • Lost to United States (48-66)
  • Lost to Uruguay (56-70)
  • Lost to Czechoslovakia (39-63) → did not advance, 15th place
  • Team Roster

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight:

  • Kornél Molnár
  1. First Round – Lost to William Michael Toweel of South Africa (0 - 3)

Men's Featherweight:

  • János Erdei
  1. First Round – Defeated Georges Malézanoff of Bulgaria (2 - 1)
  2. Second Round – Defeated Kurt Schirra of Saarland (3 - 0)
  3. Third Round – Lost to Jan Zachara of Czechoslovakia (1 - 2)

Men's Lightweight:

  1. First Round – Defeated Luis Albino Acuña of Uruguay (3 - 0)
  2. Second Round – Defeated Clayton Orten Kenny of Canada (2 - 1)
  3. Third Round – Lost to Aureliano Bolognesi of Italy (1 - 2)

Light-welterweight

  • Béla Farkas
  1. First Round – Lost to Pavle Šovljanski of Yugoslavia (0 - 3)

Men's Welterweight:

  • Pál Budai
  1. First Round – Lost to Günther Heidemann of Germany (1 - 2)

Men's Light-Middleweight:

  1. First Round – Defeated Ellsworth Webb of United States (KO 2R)
  2. Second Round – Defeated Charles Chase of Canada (KO 2R)
  3. Third Round – Defeated Petar Stankoff Spassoff of Bulgaria (3 - 0)
  4. Semifinal – Defeated Eladio Oscar Herrera of Argentina (3 - 0)
  5. Final – Defeated Theunis Jacobus van Schalkwyk of South Africa (3 - 0)

Men's Middleweight:

  • Mátyás Plachy
  1. First Round – Lost to Nelson de Paula Andrade of Brazil (1 - 2)

Men's Light-heavyweight

  1. First Round – Lost to Toon Pastor of Netherlands (0 - 3)

Men's Heavyweight:

  • László Bene
  1. Second Round – Lost to Ilkka Koski of Finland (KO 2R)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

  • István Lang — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • István Schillerwein — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Lajos Látó — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • István Lang
  • Final — 1:16.9 (→ 18th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

  • Béla Szekeres — 6th place



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