They are the best athletes in Hungary!
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.
Danuta Kozák has won the woman athlete of the year title over Tímea Babos tennisplayer and even the biggest favorite, swimmer Katinka Hosszú.
Football (Men): Péter Gulácsi (RB Leipzig), the most expensive Hungarian football player in 2018.
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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The stories of five legendary Hungarian sportsmen
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.
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.
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.
Nándor Hidegkuti (1922–2002)
He was a Hungarian football player, manager and a member of the legendary Golden 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.
László Tábori (1931–2018)
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.
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The stories of five legendary Hungarian sportswomen
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)
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.
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 is the oldest Hungarian Olympic icon since the death of Sándor Tarics in 2016 who was a Hungarian water polo player.
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.
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.
Featured image: Wikimedia Commons – Ilona Elek at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
Hungary beats Qatar to 32:26 in Handball WC 2019
In yesterday’s matches in Group D, Hungary first beat Qatar courtesy to a great performance of the entire team.
Handball World Championship – Official report
Hungary – Qatar 32:26 (16:11)
Before the World Championship began, these two teams were among the biggest favorites, besides Sweden, to advance to the Main Round – but coming into this match, both teams had to deal with surprising results. Therefore, this fixture was key to secure the chances to continue to the next phase.
The first half started with a dominant Hungary team, and after three minutes Hungary led the match 3:0. After that start Qatar coach Valero Rivera felt that his team needed an early time-out. The former Spain coach changed his goalkeeper and Danijel Saric came on. In the following minutes, Saric made some great saves, and Hungary at the same time were receiving a two-minute suspension. Qatar were back in the game: 4:3.
The atmosphere in Royal Arena this early afternoon was great thanks to the Hungarian supporters. Most of them wearing a shirt with the Hungarian superstar László Nagy, and he did not disappoint the fans. He played well in defence and was on the scorer’s list two times in the first half.
In general, the tall players in the Hungarian defence were very difficult for Qatar to handle. Qatar struggled to get the space to shoot. The captain of Qatar, Wajdi Sinen, and line player Youssef Ali kept the team in the game by scoring seven out of Qatar’s 11 goals in the first half.
However, Qatar found themselves down by three goals for a big part of the first half. In the 17th minute, Roland Mikler showed amazing skills in goal with a double save. In the very last minute of the first half Qatar was one man down, and Hungary took a late five-goal lead 16:11 was the score-line at the break.
The second half started at a high pace with a lot of goals for both teams. After just eight minutes Hungary led 22:18. Both teams had no problem coming through the defence and scoring goals. In minute 41, Qatar got their highest scoring player Wajdi Sinen on his third two-minute suspension and thereby received a red card. Qatar changed the goalkeeper, but Hungary continued scoring goals.
Hungary also changed their goalkeeper no. 12 Márton Székely, who saved 2 penalties. Qatar tried to keep up with Hungary, but Hungary was the stronger side and won the match 32:26.
Player of the Match: Máté Lékai (HUN)
Valero Rivera, Qatar Coach: “Congratulation with the victory. Their players were better than ours, and they played better as a team today. Tomorrow its rest-day and that will become us good. Our players are not used to play that much, in so few hours. We will try our best to reach the next round.”
Máté Lékai, Hungary: “It was a hard game as always. I think that we played very well today in both ends. We completed most of our attacks, which was very essential for this game. I think we scored 90% of our goals from the back-line. It was the key for the victory.”
Anis Zououi, Qatar: “They played better than us. We played a lot better in the second half. I think the bad performance in the first half, was a question of the hard game we played last night.”
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Handball WC 2019: Hungary got their first win against Angola
Angola’s goalkeeper Giovany Muachissengue got a great start with two big saves. Despite the good start in the Angolan goal, the team began rather messy with a lot of fouls. Therefore, the Hungarian troops quickly got in the lead. After only 6 minutes, the head coach of the Angolan team, Filipe Cruz, took his first timeout.
Handball World Championship 2019 – Official site report:
Unfortunately, it seemed the timeout was of no use and the Angolans offence seemed toothless and uninspired. Hungary’s number 13, Bendegúz Bóka, got the only red card in the match due to a hard tackle. After 21 minutes into the first half, the Angolan team were down with 8 goals, but the half ended with an amazing goal from Angola’s number 5, Rome Hebo.
Starting the second half with a new keeper, Mártin Székely, in the Hungarian goal it looked as if Roland Mikler had finished his job. Hungary’s best player against Argentina, Zsolt Balogh was out in the first half, but in the second half he was on the field again, starting with a goal right away. Gábor Császár, as well, made his entrance to the tournament in the second half.
Angola looked as if they had used all their energy and they struggled a lot at both ends. In the Angolan goal the keeper did not make many saves and the offence had difficulties getting the ball into the net. Just like Friday night in Royal Arena in Copenhagen the audience was creating a great atmosphere for the two teams on the court. With 11 minutes left, the Angolan team was down with 10 goals and the match seemed to be decided. That did not stop the team from fighting until the very end, and Angola’s number 99, Declerck Sibo, scored the last goal of the match.
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Hungary – Angola 34:24 (18:8)
Player of the Match: Roland Mikler (HUN)
Vladan Matic, Head Coach of Hungary: “Today we played so much better than we did two days ago. Especially in the first half we were good in the defense and with a strong keeper performance. And we are happy with the two points today, because we know that our game tomorrow against Qatar is going to be tough.”
Richard Bodó (Hungary): “First of all, congratulations to Angola for the match. Today we got two very important points. Now we are going back to the hotel and rest, so we can be ready for a tough game tomorrow against Qatar.”
World’s greatest darts player coming to Hungary
The Darts PDC Championship in London’s Alexander Palace had many surprising moments. Among the winners and champions from across the world, the most important relation to this World Championship is that Michael van Gerwen, the world’s best darts player, is coming to Hungary.
Michael van Gerwen is a Dutch professional darts player who is currently ranked number one in the world. He started to play darts when he was thirteen years old and has attended several international competitions and won several prizes. He became a PDC World Champion which is the greatest title a darts player can ever receive.
Index reported that the world-famous player arrives in Hungary on the 8th of March 2019, in Érd Arena, along with other top ten darts players from the world, e.g. the Australian Simon Whitlock, the Serbian Mensur Suljovic and the Dutch Vincent van der Voort.
These four international darts superstars are going to compete against Hungarian darts players in Érd Arena. These Hungarian players also had great successes at darts competitions.
One of them is Gergő Lakatos, who won several Youth Competitions across the country. Another Hungarian contestant is Patrik Kovács who achieved great scores at the Junior Darts Championship. Last but not least, Pál Székely who is a Hungarian champion, and János Végső who took part in the European Darts Tour.
This event is going to be broadcasted by Sports TV.
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Budapest to host 2023 World Athletics Championships
Budapest will host the World Athletics Championships in 2023, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced on Tuesday in Monaco.
Hungary will host the prestigious event for the first time, 25 years after holding a successful European championship.
IAAF’s board chair, Sebastian Coe, said in July that Budapest would be the “preferred” host in 2023.
The biennial event will be held in Doha, Qatar, in 2019 and in Eugene, Oregon, US, in 2021.
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This means war: Katinka Hosszú and other swimmers risk being banned
FINA warned Katinka Hosszú and other world-class swimmers not to take part in the International Swimming League (ISL) set to be launched in Turin on the 20th of December. If they do, they can expect to be banned for 2 years, but they cannot compete at the World Cup in 2019 for sure.
As 24.hu wrote, ISL is a new association founded by swimmers but is not recognised by FINA. Katinka has already had a confrontation once with the International Swimming Federation in 2017 when they maximised the number of events one can take part to four/person/stage at the world cup. She won that time, as this rule has been erased by FINA due to the outrage on Katinka and many other swimmers’ part in February this year.
As we wrote earlier, Hosszú made a proposal that it would be worth it for the best swimmers
to team up and create their own federation and competition with their own rights.
She told other swimmers about this at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, where she suggested building the whole system as tennis players did with WTA and ATP tours.
This matches the article of Insidethegames, which mentions that the idea of ISL has come up earlier.
FINA warned their 209 member states not to cooperate with the new federation or the organisers of the events if they do not want to get sanctions in return.
There is a real twist in the story: Paulo Barelli, president of the Italian and European Swimming Federation, member of the board of FINA, who aspired to be the chairman of the federation but failed in the end, ignored all threats, stating he is the head of the organising committee behind the ISL competition to take place on December 20th. He said the invitational competition is not against the rules of the European and International Swimming Federation.
Hungarian girl among the best e-Sportswomen in the world
21-year-old Anna Ráhel Vácz represents Hungary in the upcoming PUBG world tournament in Shanghai, hvg reports. She is the only Hungarian woman among the contestants.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by the PUBG Corporation. The concept of the game is pretty simple: up to 100 players parachute onto an island. They have to scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The safe area of the game’s map decreases in size over time, forcing players to encounter others, so there is no camping in the bushes. The last player or team standing wins the round.
PUBG is extremely popular right now. So many people play it that creators decided to organize a PUBG World Cup in Shanghai this December. This tournament is for women only. Hungarian Anna Ráhel Vácz will represent Hungary at the competition.
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Anna has been playing video games since she was six years old. She used to really like Counter-Strike. She is from Békéscsaba, and she is working as an optician.
The winner of the tournament wins a prize of USD 5,000.
Hvg asked Anna how she was feeling before the big competition, and they wrote that she feels honoured for being invited, and she is also very happy and excited about the world cup. In fact, she has already begun training for the competition.
E-Sports is a more and more popular form of competition using video games.
Most often it takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players. The most common video game genres associated with e-Sports are real-time strategy (RTS), first-person shooter (FPS), fighting and multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). The most popular games are League of Legends, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite Battle Royale, and StarCraft II.
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Huge success: Hungarian swimmer crowned Swimmer of the Year 2018
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.
Due to his historic achievement at the European Championships, Hungarian Kristóf Rasovszky was chosen as the best male swimmer in the world in 2018.
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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Amazing! Tímea Babos is once again a World Champion tennis player!
The Hungarian tennis star Tímea Babos competed alongside the French Kristina Mladenovic against the Czech Barbora Krejcíková and Katerina Siniaková at the WTA Finals. Nemzeti sport writes that the Hungarian-French duo beat the Czech duo for 6:4, 7:5 at an 86 minutes long match.
WTA World Championship, Singapore – Duo, Final
Krejcíková, Siniaková (Czech, 1.) vs Babos, Mladenovic (Hungarian, French, 2.) – 4:6, 5:7
Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic competed against the world champion Czech duo, Barbora Krejcíková and Katerina Siniaková at the duos’ final round at the WTA. For the Hungarian tennis player, this was the second world championship she competed in, while for the French Mladenovic it was the first.
Their biggest moment as a duo in this year was a win at the Australian Open, but they made it to the US Open finals too.
At the final match the world’s best duos were competing with one another: the two Czech players are at a tie on the top of the duo world raking list (they have won this year both the Roland Garros and the Wimbledon tournaments), while Babos and Mladenovic are the second bests, at a tie with each other.
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Both duos started off the first round extremely focused, scoring 3:3, but after only 24 minutes, Babos managed to take over the Czech serve, thus the Hungarian-French duo had the upper hand with 4:3, eventually ending the first set with 6:4 after 36 minutes.
In the second set it was Babos again who broke the 2:2 serving score, despite the fact that she made a grave mistake as well during this round. The Czech duo grabbed the opportunity, and almost immediately took back the lead from the Hungarians, by reducing Babos’ serves to zero. Nemzeti Sport writes that the Czechs focused their attention on breaking Babos, though her partner never failed to support her.
Babos almost hit the tennis legend, Billie Jean King, once, who was sitting in the front row.
While Mladenovic was serving, Babos had time to get her game back on, and at 5:5 she almost singlehandedly took Siniakovás serving. Thanks to this, the French tennis star was now competing for a world champion title.
With the third match-point (5:7), Babos defended her title, earning her second world champion title in women’s duo.
The winners’ awards are 250 thousand US Dollars and 750 points on the world ranking list each, while the losers earn 130 thousand US Dollars and 540 points.
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World Wrestling Championships in Budapest – PM Orbán meets United World Wrestling chief Lalovic
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday met Nenad Lalovic, president of the United World Wrestling (UWW), for talks on the world wrestling championships now under way in Budapest as well as on further international sports events planned for the city.
According to information from the prime minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi, the talks were attended by Balazs Furjes, government commissioner for major development projects in Budapest and international sports bids, and Szilárd Németh, head of the Hungarian Wrestling Federation.
At the talks, Orbán called Budapest a “global capital of sports” and argued that the city meets all requirements for the title including a good geographical location, strong economy, good services, security and hospitable inhabitants.
Havasi noted that next year Budapest will host table tennis, fencing, modern pentathlon and canoe-kayak world championships, while
Budapest will be Europe’s Sports Capital, a title given by the European Union.
He added that the prime minister is also committed to having the World Urban Games, a new-generation multi-sports event in Budapest next year.
HUNGARY OFFERS GUARANTEE TO SUPPORT BUDAPEST BID FOR 2023 ATHLETICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Hungarian government is offering a financial guarantee in support of Budapest’s bid to host the 2023 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, read more HERE.
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Hungary offers guarantee to support Budapest bid for 2023 Athletics World Championships
The Hungarian government is offering a financial guarantee in support of Budapest’s bid to host the 2023 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.
Candidates are expected to present to the IAAF the government guarantee on the costs of hosting the event by November 1, the Hungarian Athletics Association said on Thursday.
The IAAF is to pick the winning candidate on December 4.
President of IAAF Sebastian Coe said in July that Budapest was a preferred candidate for the event, the website atletika.hu said.
The budget also approved by the IAAF shows that hosting the event would cost 31.5 billion forints (EUR 97.2m).
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Success – Hungarian rescue dogs win at international competition
Hungarian rescue dogs finished second and fourth at the 24th IRO World Championship this year, Katasztrofavedelem.hu reports. The event was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia between 18-23 September. Owners are very proud of all of the dogs who took part in the competition; namely Karma, Ispán, Zizi, Pedró, Symba, Atlas, and Zoé.
About the IRO
The International Rescue Dog Organisation (IRO) is the worldwide representation for 123 national rescue dog organisations from 43 countries. According to their website:
The organisation’s role is to use international standards when training rescue dog teams, to certify mission teams, provide coordination during disasters and to finance humanitarian aid.
The IRO World Championship is organised every year, where the best rescue dogs from all over the compete.
During the competition, mission scenarios are reconstructed, and the rescue teams have to face conditions similar to those found in a real emergency.
Up to 150 teams face the challenges of Tracking, Area and Rubble search, fighting for the top ranks.
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Hungarian participants
Four Hungarian organisation participated in the championship this year:
- Two teams from Fővárosi Katasztrófavédelmi Igazgatóság: Sarolta Leczki and Karma, Judit Erdélyi and Ispán
- Two teams from Kutyákkal az Életért Alapítvány [With Dogs for Life Foundation]: Mária Gazdagné Novák and Zizi, László Dobák and Pedró
- One team from Pest Megyei Kutató-mentő Szolgálat: László Balázs and Symba
- Two teams from Mancs a Kézben Mentőkutyás Egyesületet [Paw in the Hand Association]: Zsuzsanna Vida and Atlas, Gabriella Csóka and Zoé.
Six Hungarian teams competed in the Rubble search category and one in the Area Search category. The Hungarian participants competed with other 59 teams from 25 different countries. This year, altogether 134 candidates registered to compete.
Among other challenges, the rescue dogs had to stay still on top of a moving barrel, or go through moving barrels, and they also had to crawl. The challenges tested the dogs’ capability to stay still, even if what they were standing on was moving, and the dogs’ ability to coordinate their own bodies was also tested.
In this year’s Rubble Search category, the emergency situation was a 7.2 earthquake, and several buildings collapsed, and a car, a bus and a truck were all trapped, and the dogs had 30 minutes to find three people among the rubbles.
Karma and Sarolta finished in the second place with 283 points, while Zoé and Gabriella missed the third place by only one point, and they finished fourth with 278 points.
Congratulations!
Our dogs were very successful last year as well:
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Exclusive Synchronized Swimming World Cup finales in Budapest, 2019!
As 2019 approaches, Budapest can once again prepare for hosting a prestigious event in the Danube Arena: the Superfinal of the Synchronized Swimming World Cup.
Following the 2017 FINA Swimming World Championships and the FINA Swimming World Cup, Hungary hosts another outstanding swimming-related event. While competitors of the FINA Swimming World Cup will come to Hungary in October, as the fourth stop of the event series, synchronized swimmers will be in Budapest next year.
Check out the details of the FINA Swimming World Cup, organised in Hungary in October here!
It is not the first time that the Danube Arena hosts such prestigious events. The arena was designed to offer a home to sports competitions and events and was specifically adjusted for the Swimming World Cup. The Danube Arena gave place to an event that is a bit different from swimming: the the AIBA Youth World Championships in August. For this event, the arena has been re-designed and water has been drained from the pools that stayed covered for the whole event.
In 2017, Budapest has already hosted a synchronized swimming competition during the 17th FINA World Championships that were organized at several locations in Budapest, including the City Park.
Now the time has finally come for Hungary to host another exclusive event the finales of the 2019 Synchronized Swimming World Cup!
Tamás Gyárfás, former head of the Hungarian Swimming Association reported about the great news as a member in the FINA Bureau, responsible for synchronized swimming. The planned date of the superfinales is 14-16th June, where only the best 12 of all categories can participate.
This means that it will be only the swimming superstars that have the chance to come to Budapest to the finales.
Participants of the competition can receive points from 10 former stations and based on this the finale contesters will be determined. One thing is sure: winners will receive huge prizes!
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Amazing! Hungarian kick-boxer becomes World Champion
Renáta Rákóczi, a Hungarian kick-boxer became a professional World Champion in Elverum, Norway. The Hungarian champion was flushed with joy after the competition, as Nemzetisport.hu reports.
The professional Hungarian World Champion, Renáta Rákóczi could prove her abilities in Elverum, Norway at the WAKO Pro World Championships. The champion successfully won the contest against Kristin Vollstadt, a former World Champion from Norway. Her result is especially outstanding because she was the first to compete and win in the new, 12-round system of kick-box.
The kick-box world organisation, WAKO has recently initiated a new regulation: from now on, both men and women have to compete in 12 rounds in the world championships. Renáta Rákóczi was the first to win the championships in such trying circumstances, which makes her success even more significant in terms of sports history.
Winning the championship was the triumph of her life, as the champion expressed following the contest.
“I was highly self-confident, even though formerly my lack of confidence was the biggest obstacle I had to overcome. However, I went to the ring with the idea that I simply cannot lose this competition. I believe I have exceeded the Norwegian contester both technically and mentally, so when we finished the third round, I could feel that she is afraid of me.” – told the champion in an interview.
“This title is such a big deal that at first when we got the opportunity, I hesitated because the success felt distant and I did not know whether I am ready for this. Afterwards, when it became certain that we are going to participate, I started to get the flow of things, and now I am extremely happy that it worked out like this.”
According to Gábor Juhász, the champion’s coach and vice-president of the Hungarian Boxing Association, Renáta’s success is to be understood not only as her success, but also as the success of the Hungarian kick-box scene.
“Fortunately Reni was able to handle stress very well, but the fact that we trained a lot during the summer has indeed contributed to the success against a former world champion. We trained two times a day, thanks to Reni, who was so committed that she got up at 5 am every day so that we could train more.” – shared Gábor Juhász following the successful competition.
Besides this great victory, Hungary excelled in hosting the AIBA Youth World Championships this year in August. Hungary was also successful in the WAKO World Kickboxing Championship last year, where we collected 15 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze medals.
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FINA Swimming World Cup 2018 in Budapest – These Hungarian swimmers will be there!
As we have reported earlier, this year’s FINA Swimming World Cup has recently started in Kazan, Russia; and now we finally know which Hungarian swimmers can be expected to appear in Budapest, at the fourth stop of the event series. You can go and cheer for them between 4 and 6 October at the Duna Arena.
FINA Swimming World Cup
Hungary gets to host another outstanding swimming event, namely, the FINA Swimming World Cup. The event series started on 7 September in Kazan, Russia, and lasted for two days.
The competition will continue in Doha, Eidenhoven, while Budapest will be the fourth stop of the event series.
The FINA Swimming World Cup will be held at the Duna Arena, between the 4th and 6th of October. The event is organised by the collaboration of the Hungarian Swimming Association and the Bp2017 Nonprofit Kft. You can find more information on the official site of the world cup.
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First stop: Kazan, Russia
Visitors in Budapest will definitely see those Hungarian swimmers who performed remarkably at the first stop of the FINA Swimming World Cup in Kazan, Russia, including famous Hungarian sportsmen and sportswomen like Katinka Hosszú, Zsuzsanna Jakabos, Dávid Verrasztó and Dániel Dudás. Moreover, Boglárka Kapás, László Cseh and Tamás Kenderesi will most likely join the world cup as well, at its next stop in Eidenhoven.
In Kazan, Katinka Hosszú won five events and 11 medals: women’s 400 m Freestyle, 200 m Backstroke, 200 m Butterfly and 200 m and 400 m Medley.
Who is in the lead?
Currently, Swedish Sarah Sjostrom (60 points) and Russian Vladimir Morozov (54 points) are the early leaders of the World Cup series, after the first of seven tour stops.
Last year, Swedish Sarah Sjostrom won five events and set three world cup records. Morozov finished second last year, winning three events.
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Great Hungarian success at the Kayak-Canoe World Championships 2018
Hungarian teams return from the Kayak-Canoe World Championships that took place in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal with 9 medals altogether. They won 6 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.
Following the success of the Kayak-Canoe European Championships 2018, and the Rio Olympics in 2016, ours have proved again that Hungarians are among the bests in the world.
Hungary finished as the top country at the 2018 Kayak-Canoe World Championships in terms of the total points gathered by all teams and sportsmen in the whole competition.
This means that we received the most points besides the golden, silver and bronze medals, 927 points in overall. Russia finished second with the total amount of 874 points, while Germany received 761 points as the third.
With regards to the number of total medals that Hungarian competitors won at the contests, Hungary finished as second with 9 medals in total, right after the winner Germany with 13 medals.
Take a look at the Total points’ list, where Hungary is atz the top and at the Total medals’ list:
Ours have performed above average, that is for sure.
Hungary became an absolute ruler in women’s kayak competitions, winning all three Olympic disciplines in 500 meters: the K1 (Danuta Kozák), K2 (Anna Kárász, Danuta Kozák), and the K4 (Kozák, Kárász, Erika Medveczky, Dóra Bodonyi) competitions.
Danuta Kozák reminded everyone, with his triumphant return to competing after her hiatus, that she is the queen of the sport. By now, Kozák has shown that she, along with Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú, is the world’s top performer. Anna Kárász, her partner in K2 shared how glad she was to have the opportunity to paddle with Kozak.
“It’s very hard to get to the top of the world, it takes a lot of training, very hard training,” Kozak told in an interview.
Csaba Hüttner federal coach expressed how proud he was of Danuta to win over New Zealand’s Lisa Carrington, an outstanding performer, three times.
„The girl [Lisa Carrington] could only win in K1 on 200 meters, in which Danuta did not compete (…) We can always count on Danuta. She is the best woman kayaker in the world.” – told the delighted Hüttner following the contests.
The Hungarians received two more medals in Olympic disciplines: a silver medal in K2 (Virág Balla, Kincső Takács) and a bronze one in men’s K4 (Sándor Tótka, Miklós Dudás, Péter Molnár, István Kuli).
The head coach, Hüttner also praised Bence Nádas for his bronze medal in K1, as well as Birkás and Balaska in K2 for having won again, even though other competitors were stronger than last year.
Scroll through our gallery about the contests and the awarding ceremony here:
However, the federal coach gave voice to his slight discontent concerning the final results this year.
“The national team’s performance was great in overall, but I have a feeling of imperfection, of course (…) I am sorry for the missed medals of Bálint Kopasz in K1 1000 meters and Balázs Birkás K1 200 meters; they were both close to the podium.” – emphasised Csaba Hüttner in an interview.
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