The question arises how the organizers will handle with the increased pedestrian, car and bus traffic between the Swimming Palace will be built in the area of Dagaly Bath and the Margitsziget Sport Swimming Pool during the Water World Cup, sport.hir24.hu said.

At this stage, you can cross over the Arpad bridge, but according to the organizers, it would be reasonable to build a pedestrian bridge at Drava Street – 444.hu said. We need to think of not a permanent, but a temporary pontoon bridge, which is a cheaper solution. The shiptraffic would be deflected to the other side of the island during the World Cup.

Creating a sufficient number of parking lots in close proximity of the swimming complex is also a source of problems, so parking places are planned on the south and north shore of creek Rakos, and the two sides will be connected by a pedestrian bridge – the plan says, which was received by the 13^th district council.

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Budapest, May 15 (MTI) – Time constraints and other obstacles can be resolved by joining forces, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Dagaly swimming centre in Budapest to be built for the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

Less than 800 days are left for the construction of the facilities, but Hungary should prove that it can complete the project in two years instead of four, like others have, Orban told the event on Friday. He promised that Hungary would act not simply as an organiser of the event but as a true host.

The event was also attended by FINA chairman Julio C. Maglione and Budapest Mayor Istvan Tarlos. Hungary was originally planning to host the 2021 championships but after Guadalajara from Mexico withdrew from being the host of the 2017 event, Budapest accepted the task.

The new swimming complex with a capacity of 18,000 is planned to be completed by March 31, 2017.

Budapest, April 16 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Julio C Maglione, the president of the international swimming federation FINA, on Thursday signed an agreement in Lausanne, under which Budapest will host the World Aquatics Championships in 2017.

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Five billion likely to tune into 2017 World Aquatics Championships

The signing ceremony, broadcast live by public news channel M1, was attended by FINA Managing Director Cornel Marculescu and Hungarian swimming federation leader Tamas Gyarfas.

The event was originally planned to be held in Guadalajara in Mexico but the city pulled out in February for financial reasons.

FINA announced on March 11 that it granted the right to host the event to Budapest.

Budapest, April 8 (MTI) – Five billion TV viewers are expected to tune into the Budapest 2017 World Aquatics Championships, the head of Hungary’s swimming federation told business daily Napi Gazdasag on Wednesday.

Tamas Gyarfas, who is also the head of the event’s organising committee, said the figure was realistic considering that 4.53 billion watched the 2013 Barcelona event.

The budget for the Budapest event is 85 million dollars which is also to finance the construction of a new swimming complex with a capacity of 18,000 on the area of the Dagaly baths in northern Budapest.

Sports economist Gabor Szabados told the paper that 90-95 percent of the budget will go to infrastructure development, including road modernisation, public transport reorganisation and landscaping.

He said it is unlikely that a return on costs will exceed 50 percent but the 16-day event could prove invaluable in boosting Hungary’s image. Further, the new swimming complex would be suitable as a centre for water sports and leisure over the next 40-50 years.

Mihaly Muszbek, another sport economist, told the paper that foreigners generally make up 7-12 percent of the supporters attending such sport events. They usually spend 4-5 days in the city and spend around 1,000 euros per person. If the 2017 World Aquatics attracts only 200,000 visitors and 20,000 of them arrive from abroad, then 100,000 guest nights will be spent in Budapest thanks to the event, he added.

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The Maty-ér near to Szeged will be the place for the 3rd event of the canoe world ups series following Milan and Racice. More than 1000 contenders arrived from 54 countries, writes nso.hu.

EteleBaráth, president of the Hungarian Kayak-Canoe Association (MKKSZ) said that the best Hungarian rowers will all be there, about 60 altogether. Attila Ábrahám, president of the organizing committee, was happy to see the promising weather forecast for the weekend. He then announced that spectating the contest will be free and free buses will transports the visitors to Maty-ér.

Head coach BotondStorcz expects big fights in the races after the previous events.

The Hungarian world title holder C-2 double, Róber Mike and Henrik Vasbányai are eager to get two medals on the weekend at C-2 1000 meters and 500 meters. Attila Vajda, the fanfavourite from Szeged, will have three races and hopes to win medals as well. Among the sprinters, only rowers from Győr will race for Hungary. Ádám Lantos and Péter Nagy already had a bronze medal in Milan in C-1 200 meters. ZsanettLakatos, who also has a bronze medal, will race alone.

There will be a paracanoe contest as well at the weekend. RóbertWeisz, leader of the pararowers said that although they wanted to organize the event last year, there were not any contenders. This year, however, 40 racer from 12 countries will be there. Hungary will have 10 pararowers.

based on the articles of nso.hu
by Oliver Tamasi

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Hungarians took first and third places on Sunday at the men’s competition at the 2014 Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Kecskemet, about 75 kilometers southeast of Budapest, Xinhua reports.

Xinhua said, Adam Marosi came in first with 1,482 points. He received 238 points in fencing for fourth place, 337 in swimming for third, 279 in riding for 27th and 628 points in the combined event (running and shooting) for seventh. Marosi won the 2009 World Championship and was the bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympics.

According to Xinhua, Russia’s Aleksander Lesun, 2010 World Cup winner and 2012 world champion, took second place, Hungarian Robert Kasza was third.

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The national team beat Japan in the last match of the tournament to 5-4. The result meant the 5th place in the group, reports nso.hu.

The match started quite suddenly for the Hungarian side as Japan has got the lead in the 3rd minute. The game did not change much afterwards, Márton Vas was sent off, the team was busy with defending. This task was difficult,as the Asian players moved and played fast and well. Hungary’s form improved for the last minutes of the first period, Sofron scored a nice goal. Afterwards a Japanese player was sent off, and soon the period ended.

Japan started the next part one man down, which advantage was used by the Hungarians in 49 seconds, 2-1 to Hungary. The opponent tried to dominate the game; however, they had many errors. Nevertheless, they equalized a few minutes later: Nisivaki Misahoto scored from a counter attack. Kuji Suhei long shot meant that Japan took the lead again, but in the 39th minute Sofron finished an action from close range. This was the last goal in the second period, the result was 3-3.

Hungary dominated the beginning of the third period and had an enormous number of shots; however, Fukufuji saved every one of those. He injured soon after and was substituted. Japan then attack ferociously and was awarded a penalty shot, who was saved. In 55th minute the Japan dominance finally resulted in a goal, Uneo Hiroki scored Japan’s last leasing goal. The Asian side continued the hard pressing, but was not able to finishe the actions. At thee d of the period, Márton Vas’s long shots slipped through everyone, Hungary equalized. As no. Ore goals was scored, the match was decided in overtime.

The Japansese players was tired at that point, the Hungarians could stop them easily. The overtime passed without anything special, there were barely any shots from either side, the penalty shoutout was decisive. Japan started with a goal, Hári missed the Hunagrian shot, while Hetényi saved the second Japanese penalty, Vas scored his: 1-1 after four shots. The next two shots were missed. Both team score the fourth pair. Vas finsihed the fifth penalty, unlike the Japanese player, Hungary won the match to 5-4.

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Hosszu was the most medalled woman with five golds and two silvers, only missing the podium in one race — the 50m butterfly — in her final event.

Hosszu’s opening swim of the night, the 400m IM, registered 4:27.60, and was nearly seven seconds off her Berlin world-record pace. She seemed to tire over the freestyle leg as Britain’s Hannah Miley (4:28.75) and Spain’s Mireia Belmonte (4:28.90) hunted her down. However, it was good enough for a sixth straight 400m IM victory.

“Medals from Singapore. I’m really happy with my times, I was able to break three Hungarian national records! Thank you for all the support! And tomorrow we are leaving for Tokyo.”, Hosszu published this post on Facebook.

She won the 100m backstroke over Australia’s Emily Seebohm, was out-touched for gold by German Franziska Hentke in the 200m butterfly after winning the previous five editions, and had a rapid start to the 50m butterfly, but fatigue set in and she finished last.

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