Sports and Games

Produced by Petra Avacz 10.e

Some of the Olympic Champions of Hungary

Katalin Kovács, Natasa Janics István Kovács (Koko)

László Cseh

The Hungarian sportsmen have

had a successfull participation in the first Olympic Games in

1896 in Athenes

Alfréd Hajós,

has

won the

100 and 1200

meters swimming

in freestyle.

The most successful

participation

of the Hungarian Olympic team was during the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, where the Hungarian team reached the third place on the

medal table behind the USA and the Soviet Union:

16 gold,

10 silver and

16 bronze medals.

Only three amateur boxers lived in the world, who could be three times Olympic Champion – one of them was Hungarian

Teofilo Stevenson (1972,1976,1980)

Felix Savon (1992,1996, 2000)

László Papp

(1948, 1952, 1956)

Hungary is the most successful nation in waterpolo in the history of the Olympic Games.

Hungary won 9 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals.

The Olympic team won in

1932, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1976, 2000, 2004, 2008

Canoeing

Football History

Ferenc Puskás

Ferenc Bene

Flórián AlbertThe only

Hungarian goldball winner

The Golden Team

• It has a remarkable football history, having won three Olympic titles, finishing runners-up in the 1938 and 1954 FIFA World Cups, and third in the 1964 UEFA European Football Championship.

• The most famous Hungarian national football team in the 20th century, was the Golden Team, who remained undefeated for 30 matches in a row between 1950 and 1954.

Famous players

Zoltán Gera Balázs Dzsudzsák

Sports in Telepy School - the beginnings

Our gymnasts

Levente Vágner, 4th. place on the firts Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010

Our table tennis players

Tamás Lakatos, 4th place on the firts Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010

Our boxers

Zoltán Harcsa, bronze medal winner at the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010

And the others„….Would you get a nicer present, than the one which shows you how

lucrative your hard work is?”

Comenius

They reached their aims.

Zoltán Magyar Olympic Champion in gymnastics in

1976 in Montreal and in 1980 in Moscow