Hungary at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Hungary at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  HUN
NOC Hungarian Olympic Committee
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors
Medals
Rank: 8		 Gold
6		 Silver
13		 Bronze
16		 Total
35
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Hungary competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

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[edit] Medals

Hungary finished in 8th position in the final medal rankings, with six gold medals and 35 medals overall.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • András Balczó — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
  • György Gedó — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight
  • Csaba Fenyvesi — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
  • Sándor Erdös, Csaba Fenyvesi, Gyözõ Kulcsár, István Osztrics, and Pál Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
  • Imre Földi — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
  • Csaba Hegedüs — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • András Botos — Boxing, Men's Featherweight
  • Géza Csapó — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000m Kayak Singles
  • Anna Pfeffer — Canoeing, Women's K1 500m Kayak Singles
  • Csaba Fenyvesi — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
  • Gyözõ Kulcsár — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
  • Péter Marót, Péter Bakonyi, Pál Gerevich, Tamás Kovács, Péter Marót, and Tibor Pézsa — Fencing, Men's
  • Ilona Békési, Mónika Császár, Márta Kelemen, Anikó Kéry, Krisztina Medveczky, and Zsuzsanna Nagy — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
  • Lajos Papp — Shooting, Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions
  • András Hargitay — Swimming, Men's 400m Individual Medley
  • Andrea Gyarmati — Swimming, Women's 100m Butterfly
  • Sándor Holczreiter — Weightlifting, Men's Flyweight
  • János Benedek — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight
  • György Horváth — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight
  • Ferenc Kiss — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
  • László Klinga — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
  • Károly Bajkó — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight
  • József Csatári — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Hungary entered one man and one woman. Their highest placing competitor was Hamvas Agnes Hajdene, at 22nd place in the women's competition.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Hamvas Agnes Hajdene — 2265 points (→ 22nd place)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Bela Nagy — 2302 points (→ 34th place)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 800 metres

  • András Zsinka
  • Heat — 1:49.0 (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

  • Adam Szepesi
  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.18m (→ 5th place)
  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.15m (→ 6th place)
  • Jozsef Tihanyi
  • Qualification Round — 2.09m (→ did not advance)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

  • Sandor Orbán
  • First Round — Lost to Orn-Chim Chawalit (THA), walk-over

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated James Vrij (HOL), 4:1
  • Third Round — Defeated Damdiniav Bandi (MGL), KO-2
  • Quarterfinals — Defeated Maurice Hope (GBR), 5:0
  • Semifinals — Defeated Richard Murunga (KEN), 4:1
  • Final — Lost to Emilio Correa (CUB), 0:5

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

  • Jozsef Reder
  • First Round — Lost to Ion Alexe (ROM), 0:5

[edit] Cycling

Men's Individual Road Race

  • András Takács — 23rd place
  • Tibor Debreceni — 64th place
  • Imre Géra — 67th place
  • József Peterman — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Football

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • First Round (Group C)
  • Defeated Iran (5-0)
  • Drew with Brazil (2-2)
  • Defeated Denmark (2-0)
  • Second Round (Group 1)
  • Defeated East Germany (2-0)
  • Defeated West Germany (4-1)
  • Defeated Mexico (2-0)
  • Final
  • Lost to Poland (2-1) → Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster

[edit] Handball

Hungary's first two games resulted in victories over the United States and Japan, guaranteeing the team a berth in the second round regardless of the result of the third game. However, that loss to Yugoslavia carried over into the second round, putting the Hungarians at a disadvantage. Losses to Romania and West Germany put Hungary into last place in the division. The team played against Sweden for seventh and eighth places, losing 19-18.

Men's Team Competition:

  • Hungary - 8th place (2-4-0)
  • Roster - János Adorján, Bála Bartalos, János Csik, László Harka, József Horváth, Gyula Hurth, Sandor Kaló, István Marosi, Lajos Simó, János Stiller, István Szabó, László Szabó, Sandor Takács, István Varga, Károly Vass, and Sandor Vass

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • András Balczó - 5412 points (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Zsigmond Villányi - 5047 points (12th place)
  • Pál Bakó - 4879 points (15th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Balczó, Villányi, and Bakó - 15348 points (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)

Alternate Member: Peter Kelemen

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • István Szentirmay
  • Heat — 54.71s (→ did not advance)
  • Attila Csészéri
  • Heat — 55.37s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Attila Csészéri
  • Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

[edit] Water polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated The Netherlands (3-0)
  • Drew with West Germany (3-3)
  • Defeated Greece (6-1)
  • Defeated Australia (10-2)
  • Final Round (Group I)
  • Defeated Italy (8-7)
  • Defeated United States (5-3)
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (4-2)
  • Drew with Soviet Union (3-3) → Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster
  • András Bodnár
  • Tibor Cservenyák
  • István Görgényi
  • Tamás Faragó
  • Zoltán Kásás
  • Ferenc Konrád
  • István Magas
  • Dénes Pócsik
  • László Sárosi
  • Endre Molnár
  • István Szivós