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Hungarians in the Olympics
1908, London

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Highlights

Men's Team Fencing begins historic streak of Gold through 14 CONSECUTIVE Olympics!
 Fencing Legend Fuchs Jeno wins first 2 out of 4 Golds
 Halmay wins 10th Medal and Men's Swimming Team take Silver

Gold Medalists:

Dr. Fuchs Jeno (1882-1955), Fencing/kardvivas 1st Gold
Weisz Richard (1879-1945), heavyweight wrestling/birkozas nehezsuly

Men's Team Hungary - Fencing/kardvivas: 1st Gold

Dr. Foldes Dezso (1880-1950), 1st Gold
Dr. Fuchs Jeno, (1882-1955) 2nd Gold
Dr. Gerde Oszkar (1883-1944), 1st Gold
Dr. Toth Peter (1882-1967), 1st Gold
Werkner Lajos (1883-1943) 1st Gold

See all 1908 medalists (in Hungarian)

Featured Olympian, Fuchs Jeno:
(b. October 29, 1882 - d. March 14, 1955)

One of the greatest fencers in Olympic history...
Fuchs competed in only two Olympiads for Hungary, but won every competition he entered. At the 1908 London Games, had only one touch against him in the finals. In the team competition, Fuchs then led the Hungarians to the gold medal with victories over Germany (9-0), Italy (11-5), and Bohemia (9-7).

Featured Olympian, Weisz Richard:
(b. 1879, d. 1945)

Champion Weightlifter, Wrestling Gold...
A enormous man who weighed 209 pounds and possessed a 20-inch neck and a 50-inch chest, Weisz competed as a heavyweight in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1908 London Olympics. In his first match, he almost pinned his Danish opponent in the first minute and eventually won in a little over 13 minutes. After defeating another Dane in the second round, Weisz became Hungary's first Olympic wrestling champion by defeating Aleksandr Petrov of Russia in the gold medal match.

Weisz, who began wrestling at the age of 20, was also a marvelous weightlifter. Besides his Olympic medal in wrestling, Richard was the Hungarian National heavyweight wrestling champion, Austria's first national weightlifting champion, and was also Hungary's National heavyweight weightlifting champion from 1903-1909.

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