“The Hungarians have a player nobody else has, so we have to prepare for that. I am talking about Bernadett Határ.” Chema Buceta, head coach of the British national team, said that to the Hungarian News Agency MTI). He also added that the Hungarians have a lot of very good players, and they are strong in every position.
The 208 cm Hungarian centre scored 21 points against the Slovenians, 10 against Italy, and 15 against Turkey. Furthermore,
60 pc of her attempts were successful.
According to Mr Buceta, the British team expects a very narrow match, and he said that history is on the side of Hungarians, although “in this case, that does not matter,” Index reported.
The 2018 cm Hungarian girl is a real threat for the British basket. Photo: MTI
The head coach of the Hungarian team, Norbert Székely, said that physically, there are a lot of very good players in the British national team. Some of them have been training in the Euroleague, and they are exceptionally strong. He added that the British team did not have 8-9 identical players, so rotating them is much more difficult. This means that
Hungarian players have to fight until the last seconds,
and according to him, the match will be decided only in the final moments.
In the European Basketball Championship (Eurobasket), in Serbia, Hungary won its group with two victories, and thus, the national team is going to play the quarterfinals. The British team has to play one more match after they beat Montenegro 92 to 71. Since they score a lot of points during a match, the key to their victory will be to establish an efficient defence.
Bernadett Határ. Photo: MTI
The winner will be able to play the semi-finals and will automatically get the qualification to take part in the 2022 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The last time Hungary could play semi-finals was back in 1997 when the Eurobasket was organised in Budapest.
According to Mathematics, the team that loses this match does not necessarily have to say goodbye to participating in the Olympics because if they beat the loser of the France-Belgium match, they can still become 5th or 6th best in Europe, which would mean qualification for Tokyo.
However, since both France and Belgium have a very good chance of winning the whole European tournament, now it is clear that chances are best if Hungary can beat the British team today.
If you want to read about the giant Szekler basketball player, Róbert Bobroczky of 231 cm (7 ft 7 in), born in Arad, who plays in the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, click HERE.
The improvement comes after two encouraging UEFA EURO 2020 qualifiying victories earlier this month.
Our men’s national team has leapt nine places in FIFA’s world rankings after two more recent victories.
Marco Rossi’s side lie in 42nd position in the latest FIFA list after defeating Azerbaijan 3-1 away from home on 8th June and Wales 1-0 four days later in Budapest, the squad’s first matches since FIFA’s previous rankings were released in April.
Hungary’s group rivals Croatia, Wales, Slovakia and Azerbaijan are placed sixth, 23rd, 31st and 110th spot respectively.
Two other national teams made the same margin of improvement as Hungary; Armenia and Malaysia also moving nine places towards the top of the list where Belgium, 2018 World Cup runners-up, currently reside, 28 points ahead of world champions France.
Hungarian athletes of the year gala was held on 14th February 2019. The gala took place in the National Theatre of Hungary in Budapest and was broadcasted by TV channel M4 Sport.
It was a big question, if Katinka Hosszú could win her sixth in-a-row title among women’s athlete of the year, or not. As nemzetisport.hu reported, here are the winners of the 61th Athlete of the Year Gala, let’s see them!
The winners:
Men: Shaolin Sándor Liu (Short Track Speed Skating)
Shaolin Sándor Liu has won the very first Winter Olympics title in men’s 5000 metre relay category, at the 2018 game in PyeongChang, Korea. He received a bronze medal in Leipzig in relay category, and also got a silver medal in Montréal in 2018. In 2019, he already won three gold medals and one silver in Dordrecht European Championship.
Women: Danuta Kozák (kayaker)
Shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Hungarian kayaker Danuta Kozák gathered World- and European Championship victories in 2018. At the World Championship in Portugal she has won three gold medals in Kayak 1 in 500 metre, Kayak 2 with Anna Kárász and Kayak 4 alongside with three of her partners. At the European Championship she has won two gold medals and one silver medal.
Football (Women): Zsanett Jakabfi (Vfl Wolfsburg).
Coaches: Ákos Bánhidi and Lina Zhang Jing (short track speed skating relay of men and women).
Teams (individual athletes in team sports):Men short track speed skating relay (Shaoang Liu, Shaolin Sándor Liu, Viktor Knoch, Csaba Burján, reserve: Bence Oláh).
Teams (Original team sports): Győri Audi ETO KC (women’s handball) 2018 was a highly successful year for Győr’s Women Handball Team. They won EHF Women’s Champions League in 2018, but also won Hungarian Championship and Hungarian Cup last year. The Hungarian women’s handball team from Győr is the only one that defended its title in final four.
Handicapped Athletes of the Year:
Men: Róbert Gelencsér (athletics)
Women: Alexandra Gyurkó (swimming)
Coaches of Handicapped Athletes: Sándor Beliczay (wheelchair fencing; athletes: Hajmási and Osváth)
Teams: Hungarian National Team in Wheelchair fencing (Dr. Boglárka Mező, Éva Hajmási, Zsuzsanna Krajnyák, Amarilla Veres)
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Woman Athlete of the year 2019 Danuta Kozák,
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Man Football Player of the Year, Péter Gulácsi,
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Shaolin Sandor Liu, winning the Hungarian Man Athlete of the Year Title at the Gala,
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Robert Gelencser, Man Hungarian Athlete of the Year in Atletics
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The Puskás Stadium will the only completely new stadium among the 12 host venues for UEFA Euro 2020. Some 1,000 volunteers will work during the tournament in the Hungarian capital city, which is also playing host to the UEFA Women’s Champions League final in 2019.
Representatives of the Hungarian Football Federation leading the organisation of the two events informed the national sports media about tasks related to the upcoming large-scale events at a background discussion organised by the Hungarian Sports Journalists’ Association (MSÚSZ). The purpose of the discussion was to get the representatives of the largest Hungarian media outlets acquainted as early as possible with important information about the co-hosted 2020 European Championship as well as about this year’s Women’s Champions League final.
At the event held in the MSÚSZ office building, Vilmos Szabó, project leader of the 2020 European Championship, and István Forgács, the project leader of the 2019 Women’s Champions League, shared their experiences so far and introduced the audience to the upcoming tasks.
Speaking at the discussion, UEFA Communications Director David Farrelly said that except for the one in Copenhagen, all host stadiums will have a capacity in excess of 50,000, meaning that UEFA are preparing to sell a record three million tickets for the tournament. This is substantially more than the amount sold for Euro 2016 in France when a then-record of 2.4 million were sold.
UEFA will be selling more than a quarter of a million tickets just for matches in Budapest, of which they would like to sell 70% to Hungarian fans.
In relation to this, it is important to know that most of the tickets will be sold during the first phase of ticket sales in summer 2019. Those who wish to wait to see which teams qualify for the European Championship will most probably miss out.
UEFA has never organised such a large-scale tournament as Euro 2020.
Until now the tournament has either been hosted by a single country, or (twice) joint-hosted by two countries, but for the 60th anniversary of the inaugural championship UEFA is bringing the event to all parts of the continent. Up until now, only 15 countries have hosted the event, whilst 12 countries will co-host Euro 2020, seven of which – Hungary included – haven’t previously held the honour.
Farrelly emphasised that for smaller nations such as Hungary or his country Ireland, it is a wonderful opportunity to host European Championship matches for the first time, and aside from hosting the best teams on the continent, in the event of successfully qualifying for the tournament, will appear in front of a home crowd at Euro 2020.
Budapest is also playing host to the most important match in the calendar of the women’s game in 2019 when it hosts the UEFA Women’s Champions League final at the Groupama Aréna on 18 May, the encounter between the two best European women’s club sides on the continent being a fantastic opportunity for Hungary to develop and popularise the women’s game.
The Women’s Champions League final in 2019 is the first to be held at a time and venue independent of the men’s Champions League final.
Similar to this season’s Women’s Champions League final, the organisers are counting on the help of volunteers for the four European Championship matches in Hungary. Some 1,000 volunteers will be selected from among applications by the Hungarian Football Federation. The tournament provides a great opportunity for volunteers to actively participate at the European Championship, as they will be helping media staff and the
work of the organisers, as well as ensuring that fans have an unforgettable experience at the stadium and the Fan Zone. The Fan Zone will hopefully be full to capacity with football fans for every match held in Budapest, as will the Puskás Ferenc Stadium which is being built on schedule and due to be completed later this year, and will be the only brand-new stadium co-hosting the tournament.
BUDAPEST LOGO FOR UEFA EURO 2020 UNVEILED
Hungary’s capital Budapest has revealed its UEFA EURO 2020 host city logo – with UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin promising it will be a “fantastic host” at a tournament that will unite Europe, check out HERE.
Hungary’s sport-life started in the 19th century when the first official and professional sports clubs and associations were established in the country. At the end of the century, all Hungarian citizen had the opportunity to take up a sport and lead a healthy lifestyle. When the era of the Modern Olympic Games started, Hungary sent its most professional sportsmen and women to take part in different games. Below you can read about five outstanding Hungarian men who wrote themselves into the history of the Hungarian sport.
Zoltán Blum (1892–1959)
He is considered to be Hungary’s first most significant football player and the best football coach between the two World Wars.
He started his career when he was thirteen at Ferencváros Club in Budapest. He and his team won eight Hungarian championships between 1911 and 1927.
He took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, 1912, where Ferencváros got the fifth place.
Zoltán Blum (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Roland Jacobi (1893–1951)
Born on 9 March 1893, in Besztercebánya (Transylvania) he was a four-time World Champion table tennis player, coach and the member of the Hungarian table tennis team from 1925 until 1928.
In 1926 London organised the world’s first table tennis championship where Jacobi won the first place both in individual and team. He also won a silver medal at this competition.
In 1928 he received a bronze medal at the European Championship in Stockholm and after this, he retired and became a coach.
Roland Jacobi (Photo: facebook.com/napokemberekesemenyekunnepek)
Pál Kovács (1912–1995)
Kovács started his career as a hurdler, but later he switched to fencing. He was already the member of the winning Hungarian team because they won the 1933 World Championship not just as a team but individually as well. Kovács also received a gold medal at this championship.
He took part in the Olympic Games from 1936 until 1960 and won six Olympic gold medals and one bronze one!
In 1980, he became vice-president of the Fédération Internationale d’Escrime. He died in Budapest in July 1995.
Pál Kovács (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Nándor Hidegkuti (1922–2002)
He was a Hungarian football player, manager and a member of the legendaryGolden Team. He played as a forward or attacking mid player.
He was known for his incredible and dynamic game on the field where he always left the opponent players in confusion. His legendary game at the Wembley Stadium where the Hungarian team won against England for 6-3 made him one of the most successful and iconic Hungarian football players of all time.
He and his team won the 1952 Olympic Games. He died after a long illness on February 14, 2002. Today, Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium commemorates the legendary player.
He was a middle- and long-distance runner, best known for achieving the 1500 metres running world record and for his fourth place at the 1956 Olympic Games.
His career as a runner started in the 1950s but he fell in love with running in his youth. He was the member of the legendary Hungarian club the Budapest Honvéd.
In the 1960s he emigrated into the United States where he became a coach at the University of Southern California. He died in Los Angeles on May 23, 2018.
László Tábori (Photo: facebook.com/rozsavolgyipergamen)
Hungary’s sport-life started in the 19th century when the first official and professional sports clubs and associations were established in the country. At the end of the century, all Hungarian citizen had the opportunity to take up a sport and lead a healthy lifestyle. When the era of the Modern Olympic Games started, Hungary sent its most professional sportsmen and women to take part in different games. Below you can read about five outstanding Hungarian women who wrote themselves into the history of the Hungarian sport.
Lilly Kronberger (1890 – 1974)
Lily Kronberger (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Kronberger was born in Budapest on the 12th of November 1890 to a Jewish family. She dedicated her life to figure skating from a very early age. She was trained by the well-known figure skater Victor Seibert and was only twelve years old when she took part in her first championship and won a bronze medal.
On January 28, 1908, she won the official world championship and became Hungary’s first ever world champion. After 1908 she became a world champion an additional three times in her career.
Her last championship in Vienna was the first figure skating championship in the world where music was played. This idea came from the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály. She got married which meant that her figure skating career ended.
In 1997 she became a member of the The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
Ilona Elek (1907 – 1988)
Ilona Elek was born on the 17th May 1907 in Budapest. She became obsessed with fencing at a very early age, which is the most successful sport in Hungary. She started to take part in competitions in 1928 with great successes. After winning Hungarian and European championships, she took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
She won a gold medal, and this achievement made her the first Hungarian sportswoman who ever received an Olympic medal. The Nazis were furious about Ilona Elek’s win because she ended the games ahead of the German fencer Helene Mayer.
Besides the Olympics, she won six world championships, five European championships, and another ten Hungarian champion titles. In 1948 she earned her second gold medal at the Olympics in London.
Ilona Elek (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Ágnes Keleti (1921 – )
She is probably the most successful sportswoman in Hungary. During her incredible career, she won ten Olympic medals including five gold ones in artistic gymnastics. In 1954 she became a world champion in Rome.
She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne where she won four gold medals in a row.
Ágnes Keleti (Photo: www.facebook.com/multkor.tortenelmi.magazin)
Éva Székely (1927 – )
The life of Éva Székely was full of worrying and desperation. She started her career as a professional swimmer in 1940, but she was hardly allowed to enter competitions because she was a Jew. Despite setting up a speed world record in 1941, she was excluded from competitions and only survived the Holocaust because she was a famous swimmer.
She won her first Olympic gold in 1952 in Helsinki. From 1940 until 1956 she won forty-four Hungarian championships and eight European ones making her the greatest swimmer in Hungary of all time.
In 1960 she retired and got a degree as a pharmacist. She also worked as a swimming coach. In 1976 she was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Éva Székely (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Sarolta Monspart (1944 – )
Born on November 17, 1944, Monspart was the first woman in Europe who ran the marathon in three hours and the first woman who won the World Orienteering Championships back in 1972. She is considered to be the most successful orienteer in Hungary.
Between 1964 and 1977 she won fourteen Hungarian championships. She also won international competitions in Sweden and was also successful at skiing.
Unfortunately, her sports career was stopped because of a serious encephalitis inflammation caused by a tick. After recovering from the disease she persuades women to live a healthy life.
Sarolta Monspart (Photo: Fortepan by Tamás Urbán)
Featured image: Wikimedia Commons – Ilona Elek at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
Máté Kocsis, president of the Hungarian Handball Federation, recently reported at the federation’s exceptional conference that Europe’s biggest handball stadium would be built in the Hungarian capital city for the 2022 European Men’s Handball Championship.
The Hungarian Handball Federation wrote in an interview that, besides Hungary, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Spain campaigned for the opportunity to organise the championship. At the European Handball Federation’s conference in Glasgow, Hungary won the campaign to hold this event with the support of Slovakia.
“It is an honour and a historical moment that Hungary and the Hungarian Handball Federation got the opportunity to hold the European Championship with the support of Slovakia. It is a very special and significant event, and we are proud that the Hungarian project won over several probable winning countries. Our project ensured everyone that Hungary is always a reliable and excellent organiser, no matter what kind of event we are talking about. It is going to be a wonderful experience” – said Máté Kocsis, the federation’s president and parliamentary group leader.
According to nemzetisport.hu, Máté Kocsis emphasised that all four locations of the European Championship need several improvements. For instance, a complex and an arena with 8000 seats need to be built in Szeged, and the Veszprém Arena needs to be reconstructed. The deadline is September 2021.
The venues of the European Men’s Handball Championship will be Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged, Veszprém, and Bratislava and Kosice in Slovakia, in January 2022. The European Women’s Handball Championship will take place in Slovenia, Macedonia, and Montenegro. The 2024 Men’s Championship will be organised by Germany.
Prestigious US magazine Swimming World crowns Hungarian Kristóf Rasovszky as the top open water swimmer in the world, Index reports. Rasovszky stole the title from Dutch Ferry Weertman who had been swimmer of the year for two consecutive years.
Swimming World announces the best open water swimmer of the world every year.
At the European Championships in Glasgow, Rasovszky won gold in the 5K race and the 25K race, and he won silver in the 10K race (missed the gold by only millimetres).
Rasovszky was the first one in the history of the European Championship to win a medal in all three of the solo races.
Rasovszky admitted that he did aim to win three medals at the European Championships, but he did not expect that almost all three would be gold ones. Swimming World also conducted an interview with the top open water swimmer of the year. In this interview, Rasovszky said that
“It is not enough to be in very good shape, but you need to be in shape to be able to race according to your own tactics.”
It is really incredible what Rasovszky managed to achieve within only one year. After all, he attended his first adult world championship a year ago. Then, he practically triumphed at the European Championships with two gold and one silver medal.
Rasovszky is not the first Hungarian swimmer to hold this title. Hungarian swimmers Tamás Darnyi (1987,1991) and Károly Güttler (1993) were also top open water swimmers of the world.
Dutch Sharon van Rouwendaal was crowned as the best female swimmer in the world in 2018. Hungarian female swimmers who held the same title before are Éva Risztov, who was the top female open water swimmer of the world in 2012, and Krisztina Egerszegi, who was chosen as the best female swimmer in the world three times (1991, 1992, 1996).
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Hungarian men’s U17 and U19 teams have joined their female counterparts in qualifying for the elite rounds of their European Championships this year.
Over the last two seasons our youth national teams had achieved something we’d never done before, namely all four of the sides qualifying from their European Championship first-round groups in autumn and reaching the Elite-round stage the following spring. Now, the age groups born in 2000 and 2002 have achieved the same feat, both female teams progressing in 2nd spot and both male squads qualifying as group winners, which now means all four youth-level national teams will represent Hungary in the springtime Elite rounds for the third year in a row.
The boys’ group victories are particularly impressive given that some of the teams they finished above are theoretically currently ranked above them.
For example, Sándor Preisinger’s U17 squad beat Serbia and Romania to the top spot, while Antal Németh’s U19 side qualified while remaining unbeaten against the likes of Austria and Slovenia. The seven points gained as group winners means this team will be drawn with one other group winner and two 2nd-placed teams from other groups in the Elite-round draw which will take place on 6th December.
Elsewhere, Dorottya Schumi’s U17 team didn’t look too promising in their warm-up matches but they later improved to the extent that they defeated Bosnia and group hosts Macedonia before putting on a battling display against an impressive and victorious France team.
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Meanwhile, Sándor Turtóczki’s U19 squad did what they needed to do in prevailing against Moldova and Macedonia, rendering their final group match – a heavy defeat against a world-class Finland side – meaningless.
The women’s Elite-round draws will take place on 23rd November.
Our youth-level national-team results in European Championship 1st-round groups this autumn:
Women’s U17s:
Bosnia 0-1 Hungary
Macedonia 1-4 Hungary
France 3-1 Hungary
Women’s U19s:
Hungary 6-0 Moldova
Hungary 9-0 Macedonia
Hungary 0-7 Finland
Men’s U17s:
Hungary 0-0 Romania
Hungary 3-0 Lithuania
Hungary 1-0 Serbia
Men’s U19s:
Hungary 2-1 Slovenia
Hungary 0-0 Kozovo
Hungary 2-1 Austria
24.hu celebrates Kristóf Rasovszky, open water swimmer as he won a gold medal on the last day of the 2018 European Aquatics Championship. Rasovszky was not broken by the dubious decision after his 10 km race and finished the tournament with two gold medals and with a could-have-been-gold silver one.
The young swimmer has written history last weekend, because he won both the 5 km and 25 km open water swimming in Glasgow and got a medal in 10 km as well.
Rasovszky is the first swimmer in history to win a medal in all three individual open water events.
The longest race
Kristóf Rasovszky first won the 5 km race, then finished (barely) second at 10 km. Finally, on the last day of the Championship he competed on 25 km as well. This length is so draining that most swimmers only attempt it once or twice during their career. This had been the third time that Rasovszky competed in the event, and the second that he could finish – for last year at the World Championship he was kicked and therefore forced to give up.
Although this time nobody kicked him, he was understandably exhausted. “In the first half of the last lap I tried to do everything on my own, I knew and I felt that I must push it, because everyone else is incredibly strong” shares Rasovszky his experience. “So I tried a shorter sprint at the end, as I did before.
When I got ahead of them I had the feeling that I might win this.
I was really focused on reaching forward at the finish line just in case we would have a photo-finish again, but thank God it was not necessary.”
12th of August, 2018, Rasovszky swimming in the 25 km open water race. Photo: MTI/EPA/Robert Perry
The photo-finish incident
Why did Rasovszkyworry about the photo-finish? Well, it is related to his silver medal which almost turned gold. At the 10 km event, the Olympic, World and European Champion Ferry Weertman managed to catch up to Rasovszky, and they ended up with the same finishing time. After checking the photo-finish Weertman got the first place and the Hungarian swimmer the second. However, the Hungarian Swimming Association appealed for a change, asking to announce a tie. Last week we were still crossing our fingers for Rasovszky to get his well-deserved gold. Unfortunately, this did not happen. With his one gold and one silver medal, he was already the most successful open water swimmer in Hungary, but the 25 km race was still ahead of him.
Making up for the silver
Luckily, Rasovszky did not get disheartened by the unsuccessful appeal and ended up writing history with his 25 km victory. Nevertheless, he confessed to thinking about finishing the race already at 12 and a half kilometres. “I could not fell my knees, and my right should hurt” he tells the reporters. “I tried to set a good pace for myself because I knew that the minute I start to slow down, I will be in trouble. I had to push. Otherwise I would have quit somewhere around 18 kilometres.”
On the podium the Russian Kiril Beljajev, winner Kristóf Rasovszky and Matteo Furlan from Italy, at the ceremony. Photo: MTI/EPA/Robert Perry
Proving exemplary mental and physical strength he not only made it, but finished first, this time without any doubt, setting an unprecedented record. It is interesting that it was also the first year that a women could get a medal in all three events, the Dutch Sharon van Rouwendaal also won two gold medals (5 km and 10 km), and finished second on 25 km.
With this exhilarating gold medal, Hungary ranks 4th on final overall medal table of the Championship.
I believe this a great year for young Hungarian swimmers, gymnasts, e-athletes, and the list could go on – just check out our latest sport news.
Congratulations to Kristóf Rasovszky and best of luck to all our wonderful athletes.
The Hungarian national swimming team achieved great success at the 2018 European Aquatics Championship in Glasgow, 24.hu reports. With a total of nine medals we finished fourth on the table of the swimming championship, and at the moment we rank fifth on the overall list.
Together they received four gold, three silver, and two bronze medals.
Csaba Sós, the coach of the national team expected ten medals with at least two golds before the championship, so his goals were met by the swimmers. Nevertheless, Sós remained realistic after the great success and believes that this will not be enough to triumph at next year’s World Championship or in Tokyo in 2020. But let’s worry about the future after we celebrated our great swimmers properly.
Gold medalists
Boglárka Kapás won the 200 m butterfly swimming personal best. She performed amazingly on the last 50 metres and finished at 2:07.13. However, she was not completely satisfied with her time. “I won’t rest until I get 2:06” she promised.
Boglárka Kapás after winning 200 m butterfly in Glasgow. Photo: MTI/AP/Darko Bandic
Katinka Hosszú came home from the 2017 European Short Course Swimming Championships with three gold medals (100, 200 and 400 m) and won 200 m and 400 m in the 2016 European Championship.
This year the Iron Lady finished first in 200 m medley so she successfully held her title.
Katinka Hosszú, winner in 200 m medley. Photo: MTI/EPA/Patrick B. Krämer
Kristóf Milák got the gold in 200 m butterfly. The young swimmer was unstoppable and behind him finished Tamás Kenderesi, so Hungary actually gained a double victory. After the race, Milák said that he started out too fast because he planned to beat László Cseh’s 1:52.70 European record, and thus he did not have enough energy left for the end.
Double Hungarian victory in 200 m butterfly. Left to right: Tamás Kenderesi and Kristóf Milák. Photo: MTI/EPA/Patrick B. Krämer
Last but not least, Dávid Verrasztó won the very close race in 400 m medley. He managed to put on a final spurt and thus beat the British Max Litchfield.
Dávid Verrasztó celebrating his 400 m medley victory. Photo: MTI/AP/Darko Bandic
Silver medalists
Ajna Késely is only 16 years old but got two silver medals in 800 m freestyle and 400 m freestyle. The latter with European junior record time!
Ajna Késely on the left after the 400 m freestyle ceremony. This is her second silver medal here in addition to a bronze. Photo: MTI/AP/Darko Bandic
As we mentioned before, Tamás Kenderesi finished second in 200 m butterfly after his fellow countryman. Luckily, Kenderesi was not disappointed. “My time was good and finally I got a different-coloured medal. I was expecting a result like this and from now on I am preparing for the World Championship next year.”
Bronz medalists
Kata Burján got third place in 200 m backstroke, which is the best result of her career and she also swam her personal best time. She told the reporters that she had imagined what she would say after such success many times, but now she felt speechless and just wanted to express her gratitude.
Kata Burján on the right, finishing third in 200 m backstrokes. Photo: MTI/AP/Darko Bandic
Ajna Késely also finished third in 1500 m freestyle.
A few statistics
So far Hungary has 94 gold medals in European Swimming Championships. The most fruitful year so far was 2016 with 10 victories. László Cseh is the most successful with 14 golds in total. This year he made it into the 100 m butterfly final with the best time but only finished 8th there. Second is Katinka Hosszú with 12 and third Krisztina Egerszegi with 9 victories.
24.hu also emphasises that Hungarians were writing history this year. Dávid Verrasztó won his consequent third gold medal in 400 m medley (2014, 2016, 2018) and if we remember that between 2004-12 László Cseh was the champion then it is easy to see that:
Ajna Késely with her 800 m freestyle silver medal. Photo: MTI/EPA/Patrick B. Krämer
During the past eight European Championships in 400 m medley, the winner was always Hungarian. This is a series unprecedented by any other nations in any lengths.
Moreover, the soon 30-year-old swimmer, Verrasztó is also the oldest winner of the 400 m medley now. On the other hand, the young Ajna Késely (16) was the most successful this year with a total of three medals.
Right now it is still undecided whether Kristóf Rasovszky has a silver or a gold medal in the 10 km open water swim but he has definitely won on 5km, making him the first Hungarian to win two medals in individual open water events.
All in all, these are quite the results we should be proud of!
Featured image: MTI Fotó: Szigetváry Zsolt (the Hungarian team before leaving for the championship)
The 18-year-old Boglárka Dévai has become the first Hungarian woman to win the vault at the European Championships in 20 years. As Nemzetisport.hu reports, the champion had burst into tears when she realised that she won the title.
Following Henrietta Ónódi (1989) and Adrienn Varga (1998), Boglárka Dévai (2018) has succeeded in winning the vault in Glasgow at the 2018 European Championships with her amazing and outstanding performance – 20 years after the last Hungarian success in 1998. We have already seen some great Hungarian performances in the field of gymnastics: formerly, Krisztián Berki, a Hungarian Olympic Champion gymnast has been unbelievably honoured in 2016: a gymnastic element has been named after him. This year, Hungary had the chance to host 118 teams from nearly 30 countries at the World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships.
Photo: MTI/EPA/Neil Hall
She has performed the most difficult pose of the Championships, worth altogether 14.633 points in the finals. Facing her opponent, the French Colline Devillard proved to be a motivation that led her to reach 14.349 points on average at the final stage of the contest. However, at first, she was not satisfied with her performance.
The delighted Boglárka recalls: „I thought I was not even going to make it to the best three, as I told my coach after my two vaults”.
Photo: MTI/EPA/Neil Hall
Although she got into the finals with the highest points, she admitted that she did not expect to win a medal. She was the first to perform the tasks, and according to her, there were moments later when she could not even look at fellow competitors’ performance due to her anxiety.
“I cannot find words or describe the feeling, I have not yet realised that I have become a European Champion today! It is even more unbelievable that Hungary could win the vault again after 20 years in women’s gymnastics – and it was me who could do it even though I am only 19 years old!”, said the happy winner in an interview.
For others, her amazing results at the Championship were no surprise: last year, she has won bronze medal at the European Championship, and this year she became the favorite of many as she got into the best eight competitors with the highest points.
“When I first participated in a Junior European Championship four years ago, I could not yet imagine what this could be all about. It was during last year’s European Championship when I won the first bronze medal that I realised that I could also be among the bests and the elite of gymnastics.”
Hungarian news portal Frissmédia reports that the Hungarian team placed tenth on the second day of the European Junior Synchronised Championship in Finland. Read on to find out the details.
The European Junior Synchronised Championship is taking place in Tampere, where on Wednesday fifteen teams competed against one another, including the cream of the Hungarian synchronised swimmers.
As Frissmédia writes, the warmup did not go well for the Hungarian team, but they could make up for the losses suffered there during the competition.
The Hungarian juniors landed on the tenth place.
Scoring is quite important in synchronised swimming, and since the Hungarian team did not manage to score on Wednesday, the team is faced with serious expectations for the upcoming World Championship that Budapest is going to host in three weeks’ time. The tenth place is good in itself according to professionals, but the Hungarian team has an excellent chance to place higher in Budapest.
The Hungarian team is comprised of Anna Apáthy – Janka Dávid, Boglárka Gács – Mira Gerstenkorn, Szabina Hungler – Dóra Kassai, Anna Szabó – Veronka Szabó.
Russia placed first on Wednesday (score: 91.4601), Ukraine second (88.7496), Spain third (85.4542). Hungary placed tenth with a score of 74.5632, preceded by Britain (76.5742).
The municipal assembly in a vote on Wednesday backed the Hungarian Football Association’s (MLSZ) proposal for Budapest to co-host the UEFA European Under-21 Championship in 2021.
The proposal passed with 24 votes in favour and 4 opposition abstentions.
Mayor István Tarlós said a precondition for agreeing to host the event was that the costs should be fully covered by resources from the central budget.
MLSZ has until the end of August to submit its detailed bid.
For that matter, the representatives asked Budapest Mayor István Tarlós to negotiate with the government on providing supplemental central funding for the renovation of Chain Bridge, the Castle Hill Tunnel and Clark Ádám Square. In a unanimous vote, the assembly backed the proposal to speed up the renovation project.
In April, the assembly decided that the first phase would involve the renovation of the bridge and the tram, road and pedestrian underpass on the Pest side with the 16.4 billion forint cost paid from the municipality’s 2018 budget. The assembly also planned for a second phase to renovate the tunnel and Clark Ádám Square on the Buda side, to be paid for from the municipality’s 2022-2024 budget.
If central supplemental funding is approved, the renovation would begin in 2019 and all parts of the project would be completed by 2021-2022.
Socialist representative Csaba Horváth told a press conference on Wednesday that Budapest residents pay 20 billion forints (EUR 62.5m) in taxes each day, and the mayor should seek a quarter of this amount from the government in order to accelerate the renovation project.
Hungarian teams won 15 medals during the 2018 ECA Canoe Sprint European Championship in Belgrade, Serbia. We got 6 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals, mandiner.hu reports.
With these results, we are at the top of the medal table. If we are only looking at the Olympic disciplines, then the result is 3-3-2. On Saturday, the first day, Csaba Hüttner head coach’s team got to stand on the highest step of the podium. The women’s kayak 4 (K4) 500-meter team was made up of Anna Kárász, Danuta Kozák, Erika Medveczky and Dóra Bodonyi. Two of them had to miss last year’s competition, but it seems like that did not keep them back from winning this year.
Kozák became a mother last year and Kárász had to take some time to recover from an injury.
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We won two Hungarian silver medals in K1 1000m category: both Bálint Kopasz and Tamara Takács came in second. Noémi Pupp and Tamara Csipes were third in K2 1000m.
On Sunday morning the Hungarian teams won 3 more gold medals, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Danuta Kozák won in K1, Virág Balla and Takács Kincső Devecseriné proved to be the very best in Canoe 2.
The biggest surprise came from Milán Mozgi and Tamás Somorácz, who managed to win after a really close race in K2.
In women’s K2 Erika Medveczky and Csipes came in second, and third place went to Sándor Tótka, Péter Molnár, Miklós Dudás and István Kuli in men’s Kayak 4.
Danuta Kozák, Anna Kárász, Erika Medveczky, Dóra Bodonyi, Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Danuta Kozák, Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Tamara Takács, Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Péter Molnár, Sándor Tótka, Miklós Dudás, István Kuli, Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Tamara Takács, Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Erika Medveczky and Tamara Csipes. Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Bálint Kopasz, Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Tamás Somorácz, Milán Mozgi, Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
On the shortest distance, Hungary won 1 gold medal, 1 silver and 2 bronze. First place went to the Balla and Kincső Takács team in C2 200m. After winning 2 gold medals in other categories, Kozák got the silver medal in the 200m distance. And Balla got another bronze medal for Hungary. The Márk Balaska and Balázs Birkás kayak team came in third, while Zsanett Lakatos in Canoe 1 came in second.
Featured image: Danuta Kozák, coming in first in women’s K1 500 meters. Photo: MTI/Kovács Tamás
Three-time Olympic champion swimmer Katinka Hosszú, 29, announced on Thursday that she would no longer be coached by Shane Tusup, her husband.
“I would like to get ahead of the gossips, sadly Shane and I haven’t been able to resolve our personal issues, therefore we are no longer working together,”
she said on Facebook.
Hosszú said she was still preparing for the upcoming competitions while looking at options in finding a support team.
Hosszú competed for the last time in the LEN European Short Course Championships in Copenhagen in December last year.
She is to compete next in the Mare Nostrum international series and the European Aquatics Championships in Glasgow in August.
As we wrote on March, Katinka Hosszú has finally talked about her relationship with Shane Tusup after a long time.
According to Katinka, it had been a rough period in their lives due to the difficulties in their marriage. Currently, they are trying to make the best out of it. Mno.hu shared details in connection with Katinka’s plans in the future. Read more HERE.
Also we wrote two weeks ago, Katinka interrupted her training camp in the United States so that she can shoot with CNN. The location was the spectacular Molnár János Cave in Budapest, which is a nature reserve. Read more HERE.
Photo: facebook/Budapest 2017 – FINA Vizes Világbajnokság
Hungarian Olympic, world and European champion swimmer Dániel Gyurta announced on Tuesday that he has retired from competition.
“It is perhaps one of the toughest moments in my life but I had to realise that I can no longer surmount the plenty of difficulties I have had to face recently,” he said, referring to a series of injuries.
Gyurta triumphed in the 200-metre breaststroke in the 2012 Olympics, as well as in three world championships and two European championships. He won the same event in two world short-track championships as well.
Gyurta, who is a member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, said he would not lose touch with swimming but ruled out that he would become a coach.
Featured image: www.facebook.com/DanielGyurtaOfficial
According to mlsz.hu, Hungary will face Estonia, Finland and Greece in this year’s inaugural UEFA Nations League competition after the four teams were drawn together in Group 2 of League C in the tournament draw yesterday in Lausanne.
Wednesday’s draw began with League D, with the 4th seeds being allocated groups first – the first into Group 1, the second indo Group 2, and so on – followed by the third-, second- and first seeds. League C groups – Hungary’s league – was drawn next, with the difference that there are only three 4th seeds, meaning that the first 4th seed drawn went into Group 2, and not Group 1. Group 1 is comprised of three teams, whilst groups 2, 3 and 4 have four teams each. As Hungary were top seeds in the League C, they were one of the last teams drawn in League C.
Once the draw was made, the various team representatives agreed upon the group match schedule; who plays against who, and when. At the same time, UEFA determines the match kick-off times, taking into account the requests of the TV coverage rights-owners.
Teams don’t have a completely free hand when setting the matchdays, UEFA having regulations which are determined by the geographical and climatic conditions.
UEFA has designated three match lick-off times. Midweek matches will be played at the tried and trusted Champions League kick-off time of 20:45, complemented with some 18:00 kick-offs. Matches held on weekends will be split evenly between 20:45 and 18:00 but there will also be a 15:00 kick-off too.
The traditional European Championship qualifiers will be begin in spring 2019 after the group-stage of the Nations League has been completed, with the Nations League semi-finals and finals to be held in spring 2020. The four league winners (of League 1, 2, 3, and 4) will qualify for UEFA Euro 2020.
UEFA has made the following video about the points of contact between the League of Nations and the traditional European Championship qualifiers:
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