Hungary at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Hungary
games=2000 Summer
competitors=178
sports=23
flagbearer=Rita Kőbán
gold=8
silver=6
bronze=3
total=17
rank=13

Hungary competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Hungary finished in 13th position in the final medal rankings, with eight gold medals and 17 medals overall.

Gold

* Tímea Nagy — Fencing, Women's Épée Individual

* Zoltán Kammerer and Botond Storcz — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs

* Gábor Horváth, Zoltán Kammerer, Ákos Vereckei and Botond Storcz — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours

* György Kolonics — Canoeing, Men's C1 500 m Canadian Singles

* Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai — Canoeing, Men's C2 500 m Canadian Pairs

* Szilveszter Csollány — Gymnastics, Men's Rings

* Ágnes Kovács — Swimming, Women's 200 m Breaststroke

* Tibor Benedek, Péter Biros, Rajmund Fodor, Tamás Kásás, Gergely Kiss, Zoltan Kosz, Tamás Märcz, Tamás Molnár, Barnabás Steinmetz, Zoltán Szécsi, Bulcsu Szekely, Zsolt Varga, and Attila Vári — Water Polo, Men's team competition

Silver

* Gábor Balogh — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition

* Katalin Kovács and Szilvia Szabó — Canoeing, Women's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs

* Rita Kőbán, Katalin Kovács, Erzsébet Viski and Szilvia Szabó — Canoeing, Women's K4 500 m Kayak Fours

* Beatrix Balogh, Rita Deli, Ágnes Farkas, Andrea Farkas, Anikó Kántor, Beatrix Kökény, Anita Kulcsár, Dóra Lőwy, Anikó Nagy, Ildikó Pádár, Katalin Pálinger, Krisztina Pigniczki, Bojana Radulovics, Beáta Siti, and Tamásné Zsémbery — Handball, Women's team competition

* Erzsébet Márkus — Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg

* Sándor Bárdosi — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (85 kg)

Bronze

* Zsolt Erdei — Boxing, Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

* Krisztián Bártfai and Krisztián Veréb — Canoeing, Men's K2 1000 m Kayak Pairs

* Diána Igaly — Shooting, Women's Skeet Shooting

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's Competition

Men's 400 m
* Zsolt Szeglet
*# Round 1 – 46.19 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 m
* Balazs Koranyi
*# Round 1 – 01:46.21
*# Semifinal – 01:47.35 (→ did not advance)

Men's 110 m Hurdles
* Balazs Kovacs
*# Round 1 – 13.83
*# Round 2 – 13.78 (→ did not advance)

* Levente Csillag
*# Round 1 – 13.66
*# Round 2 – 13.75 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Hurdles
* Tibor Bedi
*# Round 1 – 51.54 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100 m
* Laszlo Babaly, Miklos Gyulai, Viktor Kovacs, and Geza Pauer
*# Round 1 – 39.52 (did not advance)

Men's 4x400 m
* Tibor Bedi, Zeteny Dombi, Attila Kilvinger, and Zsolt Szeglet
*# Round 1 – 03:06.50 (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put
* Szilard Kiss
*# Qualifying – 18.95 (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus
* Robert Fazekas
*# Qualifying – 61.76 (→ did not advance)

* Gabor Mate
*# Qualifying – 60.86 (→ did not advance)

* Zoltan Kovago
*# Qualifying – NM (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw
* Tibor Gecsek
*# Qualifying – 77.33
*# Final – 77.70 (→ 7th place)

* Zsolt Nemeth
*# Qualifying – 73.95 (→ did not advance)

* Adrian Annus
*# Qualifying – 75.41 (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump
* Zsolt Czingler
*# Qualifying – 16.52 (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk
* Sandor Urbanik
*# Final – 0:01:26 (→ 29th place)

* Gyula Dudas
*# Final – 1:28:34 (→ 37th place)

Men's 50 km Walk
* Gyula Dudas
*# Final – 4:17:55 (→ 37th place)

Men's 50 km Walk
* Zoltan Czukor
*# Final – DSQ

Men's Decathlon
* Attila Zsivoczky
*# 100 m – 11.10
*# Long Jump – 7.00
*# Shot Put – 14.96
*# High Jump – 2.06
*# 400 m – 48.61
*# 100 m Hurdles – 15.27
*# Discus Throw – 47.43
*# Pole Vault – 4.80
*# Javelin Throw – 65.87
*# 1,500 m – 04:23.37
** Points – 8277.00 (→ 8th place)

* Zsolt Kurtosi
*# 100 m – 11.00
*# Long Jump – 7.19
*# Shot Put – 15.13
*# High Jump – 2.00
*# 400 m – 48.81
*# 100 m Hurdles – 14.15
*# Discus Throw – 46.62
*# Pole Vault – 4.80
*# Javelin Throw – 57.16
*# 1,500 m – 04:43.39
** Points – 8149.00 (→ 11th place)

Women's Competition

Women's 400 m
* Barbara Petrahn
*# Round 1 – 52.86
*# Round 2 – 52.72 (→ did not advance)

Women's 10,000 m
* Aniko Kalovics
*# Round 1 – 33:20.40 (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw
* Nikolett Szabo
*# Qualifying – 58.86 (→ did not advance)

Women's Hammer Throw
* Katalin Divos
*# Qualifying – 62.74 (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump
* Tunde Vaszi
*# Qualifying – 6.70
*# Final – 6.59 (→ 8th place)

* Zita Ajkler
*# Qualifying – 6.36 (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump
* Dóra Györffy
*# Qualifying – 1.89 (→ did not advance)

Women's Pole Vault
* Zsuzsanna Szabo
*# Qualifying – NM (→ did not advance)

* Katalin Donath
*# Qualifying – NM (→ did not advance)

Women's 20 km Walk
* Maria Urbanik
*# Final – 1:34:45 (→ 18th place)

* Aniko Szebenszky
*# Final – 1:36:46 (→ 29th place)

Women's Marathon
* Judit Folding-Nagy
*# Final – 2:30:54 (→ 17th place)

Women's Heptathlon
* Rita Inancsi
*# 100 m Hurdles – 15.11
*# High Jump – 1.69
*# Shot Put – DNS
*# 200 m – DNS

=Boxing=

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
*Pál Lakatos
**Round 1 – Bye
**Round 2 – Lost to Un Chol Kim of DPR of Korea (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
*Károly Balzsay
**Round 1 – Bye
**Round 2 – Lost to Pornchai Thongburan of Thailand (→ did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
*Zsolt Erdei
**Round 1 – Bye
**Round 2 – Defeated Vladislav Vizilter of Kyrgyzstan
**Quarterfinal – Defeated Oleksandr Zubrihin of Ukraine
**Semifinal – Lost to Gaidarbek Gaidarbekov of Russia → Bronze Medal

=Canoe / Kayak=

Flatwater

Men's Competition

Men's Kayak Singles 500 m
* Akos Vereckei
*# Qualifying Heat – 01:42.089
*# Semifinal – 01:39.574
*# Final – 02:00.145 (→ 4th place)

Men's Kayak Singles 1000 m
* Roland Kokeny
*# Qualifying Heat – 03:38.066
*# Semifinal – 03:39.455 (→ did not advance)

Men's Kayak Doubles 500 m
* Zoltan Kammerer and Botond Storcz
*# Qualifying Heat – 01:31.144
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 01:47.055 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's Kayak Doubles 1,000 m
* Krisztian Bartfai and Krisztian Vereb
*# Qualifying Heat – 03:13.677
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 03:16.357 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's Kayak Fours 1,000 m
* Gabor Horvath, Zoltan Kammerer, Botond Storcz, and Akos Vereckei
*# Qualifying Heat – 02:58.096
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 02:55.188 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's Canoe Singles 500 m
* Gvorgy Kolonics
*# Qualifying Heat – 01:51.492
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 02:24.813 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's Canoe Singles 1000 m
* Gyorgy Zala
*# Qualifying Heat – 04:00.754
*# Semifinal – 04:03.226 (→ did not advance)

Men's Canoe Doubles 500 m
* Imre Pulai and Ferenc Novak
*# Qualifying Heat – 01:42.816
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 01:51.284 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's Canoe Doubles 1,000 m
* Imre Pulai and Ferenc Novak
*# Qualifying Heat – 03:38.492
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 03:43.103 (→ 5th place)

Women's Competition

Women's Kayak Singles 500 m
* Rita Koban
*# Qualifying Heat – 01:50.777
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 02:19.668 (→ 6th place)

Women's Kayak Doubles 500 m
* Katalin Kovacs, Szilvia Szabo
*# Qualifying Heat – 01:42.298
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 01:58.580 (→ Silver Medal)

Women's Kayak Fours 500 m
* Rita Koban, Katalin Kovacs, Szilvia Szabo, Erzsebet Viski
*# Qualifying Heat – 01:33.312
*# Semifinal – Bye
*# Final – 01:34.946 (→ Silver Medal)

=Cycling=

Track Cycling

Women's Sprint
*Szilvia Noemi Szabolcsi
**Qualifying – 11.545
**1/8 Finals – Lost to Iryna Yanovych of Ukraine
**1/8 Finals Repechage – Heat 1; 1st place
**Quarterfinal – Lost to Oxana Grichina of Russia
**Finals 5-8 – (→ 5th place)

Women's 500 m Time Trial
*Szilvia Noemi Szabolcsi
**Final – 35.778 (→ 12th place)

=Diving=

Men's 3 Metre Springboard
* Imre Lengyel
*# Preliminary – 382.98
*# Semi-final – 222.60 – 605.58
*# Final – 390.87 – 613.47 (→ 11th place)

Men's 10 Metre Platform
* Andras Hajinal
*# Preliminary – 316.14 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

=Modern Pentathlon=

Men's Competition
* Gabor Balogh – 5353pts (→ Silver Medal)
* Peter Sarfalvi – 4971pts (→ 17th place)

Women's Competition
* Zsuzsanna Vörös – 4866 pts (→ 15th place)
* Nora Simoka – 3042pts (→ 23rd place)

=Sailing=

Five men and one woman competed for Hungary in the Sailing venue at the 2000 Olympics. The best finish was 15th.

Men's Mistral
* Aron Gadorfalvi
*# Race 1 – (24)
*# Race 2 – 19
*# Race 3 – 19
*# Race 4 – 23
*# Race 5 – 21
*# Race 6 – 23
*# Race 7 – 21
*# Race 8 – 17
*# Race 9 – 14
*# Race 10 – (37) OCS
*# Race 11 – 20
*# Final – 177 (24thplace)

Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)
* Balazs Hajdu
*# Race 1 – (26) DSQ
*# Race 2 – 6
*# Race 3 – 16
*# Race 4 – 16
*# Race 5 – 3
*# Race 6 – 5
*# Race 7 – (26) DNF
*# Race 8 – 8
*# Race 9 – 22
*# Race 10 – 10
*# Race 11 – 16
*# Final – 102 (15th place)

Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
* Marcell S. Goszleth and Adam C. Szorenyi
*# Race 1 – (30) OCS
*# Race 2 – 20
*# Race 3 – 19
*# Race 4 – 18
*# Race 5 – 25
*# Race 6 – 24
*# Race 7 – 26
*# Race 8 – 17
*# Race 9 – (29)
*# Race 10 – 28
*# Race 11 – 27
*# Final – 204 (29th place)

Men's Laser
* Tamas Eszes
*# Race 1 – 5
*# Race 2 – (26)
*# Race 3 – 9
*# Race 4 – 13
*# Race 5 – (44) DSQ
*# Race 6 – 14
*# Race 7 – 16
*# Race 8 – 26
*# Race 9 – 5
*# Race 10 – 26
*# Race 11 – 13
*# Final – 127 (18thplace)

Women's Mistral
* Luca Gadorfalvi
*# Race 1 – 23
*# Race 2 – (26)
*# Race 3 – 24
*# Race 4 – 24
*# Race 5 – (28)
*# Race 6 – 21
*# Race 7 – 25
*# Race 8 – 21
*# Race 9 – 15
*# Race 10 – 23
*# Race 11 – 25
*# Final – 201 (25th place)

=Swimming=

Men's 50 m Freestyle
* Attila Zubor
*# Preliminary Heat – 23.03 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Freestyle
* Attila Zubor
*# Preliminary Heat – 49.79
*# Semi-final – 49.58 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Freestyle
* Béla Szabados
*# Preliminary Heat – 1:50.10
*# Semi-final – 1:49.36 (→ did not advance)

* Attila Zubor
*# Preliminary Heat – 1:50.11
*# Semi-final – 1:49.87 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Freestyle
* Zoltán Szilágyi
*# Preliminary Heat – 03:58.94 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Butterfly
* Zsolt Gáspár
*# Preliminary Heat – 53.29
*# Semi-final – 53.45 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Butterfly
* Viktor Bodrogi
*# Preliminary Heat – 02:00.75 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke
* Károly Güttler
*# Preliminary Heat – 01:01.66
*# Semi-final – 01:01.83 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke
* Norbert Rózsa
*# Preliminary Heat – 02:15.27
*# Semi-final – 02:14.67 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Backstroke
* Peter Horváth
*# Preliminary Heat – 55.81
*# Semi-final – 55.65 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Backstroke
* Viktor Bodrogi
*# Preliminary Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley
* Attila Czene
*# Preliminary Heat – 02:02.66
*# Semi-final – 02:01.56
*# Final – 02:01.16 (→ 4th place)

* Istvan Bathazi
*# Preliminary Heat – 02:03.63 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley
* Istvan Bathazi
*# Preliminary Heat – 04:18.85 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x200 m Freestyle
* Attila Czene, Zsolt Gáspár, Jacint Simon, and Béla Szabados
*# Preliminary Heat – 07:24.48 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100 m Medley
* Peter Horváth, Károly Güttler, Zsolt Gáspár, and Attila Zubor
*# Preliminary Heat – 03:38.58
*# Final – 03:39.09 (→ 5th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle
* Gyongyver Lakos
*# Preliminary Heat – 57.71 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 m Freestyle
* Eva Risztov
*# Preliminary Heat – 04:18.48 (→ did not advance)

Women's 800 m Freestyle
* Eva Risztov
*# Preliminary Heat – 08:43.07 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Butterfly
* Orsolya Ferenczy
*# Preliminary Heat – 01:01.15 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200 m Butterfly
* Eva Risztov
*# Preliminary Heat – 02:11.32 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke
* Agnes Kovacs
*# Preliminary Heat – 01:08.50
*# Semi-final – 01:07.79
*# Final – 01:08.09 (→ 5th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke
* Agnes Kovacs
*# Preliminary Heat – 02:24.92
*# Semi-final – 02:24.03 – "Olympic Record"
*# Final – 02:24.35 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's 100 m Backstroke
* Annamaria Kiss
*# Preliminary Heat – 01:06.12 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200 m Backstroke
* Annamaria Kiss
*# Preliminary Heat – 02:20.40 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x100 m Medley
* Orsolya Ferenczy, Annamaria Kiss, Agnes Kovacs, and Gyongyver Lakos
*# Preliminary Heat – 04:11.11 (→ did not advance)

=Synchronized Swimming=

Duet
* Zsuzsanna Hamori, Petra Marschalko
*# Technical Routine – 28.957 Did not compete in free routine

=Tennis=

Men's Singles Competition
* Attila Savolt :* First Round – Lost to Paradorn Srichaphan (THA), 2-6 6-4 5-7

Women's Singles Competition
* Rita Kuti-Kis :* First Round – Lost to Amanda Coetzer (RSA), 1-6 1-6

* Petra Mandula :* First Round – Lost to Conchita Martínez (ESP), 1-6 0-6

* Katalin Marosi :* First Round – Lost to Monica Seles (USA), 0-6 1-6

=Triathlon=

Men's Individual Competition
* Csaba Kuttor – 1:51:05.74 (→ 30th place)

Women's Individual Competition
* Nora Edocseny – 2:05:20.03 (→ 19th place)
* Erika Molnar – 2:05:39.50 (→ 23rd place)
* Aniko Gog – 2:14:50.55 (→ 39th place)

=Water Polo=

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round:* 3-2-0
* Quarterfinals:* Defeated Italy (8-5)
* Semifinals:* Defeated Yugoslavia (8-7)
* Final:* Defeated Russia (13-6)
* Team Roster:*Tibor Benedek:*Péter Biros:*Rajmund Fodor:*Tamás Kásás:*Gergely Kiss:*Zoltán Kósz:*Tamás Marcz:*Tamás Molnár:*Barnabás Steinmetz:*Zoltán Szécsi:*Bulcsú Székely:*Attila Vári:*Zsolt Varga
*Head Coach: Dénes Kemény

References

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