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Hungarians in the Olympics
1988, Seoul

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1988, Seoul

Swimmer Krisztina Egerszegi wins first of 5 Gold Medals becoming Youngest Olympic Champion of all Time!
Swimmer Tamas Darnyi wins first 2 of 4 Gold Medals!
Janos Martinek, and Gyulai Zsolt each win 2 Golds!
Men's Pentathlon Team Hungary wins 4th Gold!
Men's Fencing Team Hungary wins historic 14th Gold!
 World record holder, Swimmer Karoly Guttler, takes Silver

Gold Medalists:

Borkai Zsolt, Gymnastics: pommel horse
Gyulay Zsolt, Kayak-Canoe: C-1, 500 m, 1st Gold
Martinek Janos, Modern Pentathlon, 1st Gold
Darnyi Tamas, Swimming: 200 m individual medley, 1st Gold
Darnyi Tamas, Swimming: 400 m individual medley, 2nd Gold
Szabo Jozsef, Swimming: 200 m breaststroke
Egerszegi Krisztina, Swimming: women’s 200 m backstroke, 1st Gold
 Sike Andras, Wrestling: Graeco-Roman, 55 kg
Miroslav Varga, Shooting: small-bore rifle, prone - competing for Czechoslovakia

Men's Team Hungary - Fencing: Sabre: 14th Gold

Gedovari Imre, 
Nebald Gyorgy , 
Bujdoso Imre, 
Szabo Bence, 
Csongradi Laszlo

Men's Team Hungary - Canoe/Kayak: K4 - 1000M

Abraham Attila, 
Csipes Ferenc, 
Gyulay Zsolt, 2nd Gold
Hodosi Sandor 

Men's Team Hungary - Modern Pentathlon 4th Gold

Martinek Janos, 2nd Gold
Mizser Attila,
Laszlo Fabian

Other Notables from 1988
Noemi Ildiko Lung, Swimming: 200m Freestyle AND 400m Freestyle - Silver, 
competing for Rumania

 

 

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See all 1988 medalists (in Hungarian)

Featured Olympian, Krisztina Egerszegi:
(b. 8/16/1974, Budapest, Hungary, d. )

Queen Krisztina... Youngest Olympic Champion of all time! 
Hailed as "Queen Krisztina" in Hungary, she inspires a great deal of affection from her fans who watched her grow from a skinny teenage prodigy into an attractive young woman and youngest Olympic Champion of all time. Krisztina Egerszegi is the only woman to win five gold medals in individual swimming events. Egerszegi was only 14 years old when she competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Emboldened by the silver medal she gained in the 100m backstroke, she felt that she could upset the favored East Germans at 200m, even though, at 45kg, she was 19kg lighter than any of her opponents in the final. Egerszegi sprinted into the lead after the mid-race turn and won going away. In 1992, Egerszegi, by now a seasoned 18-year-old, won both backstroke events. She also entered and won the 400m individual medley, recording the fastest time since Petra Schneider's chemically augmented 1982 world record. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, Egerszegi earned a bronze medal in the 400 IM and then won the 200m backstroke to become only the second swimmer in history to win the same event three times. Her margin of victory, 4.15 seconds, was the greatest in any women's 200m event. In 1996, Egerszegi did not enter the 100m backstroke, however her leadoff backstroke time in the medley relay, 1:01.15, was faster than the winning time in the 100m backstroke final.

Look at this incredible record:

  • 1988 Olympics - 200 m backstroke (1 Gold Medal), 100m backstroke (1 Silver Medal)

  • 1989 European Championship - 100m, 200m backstroke, 400m individual medley (3 Silver Medals) 

  • 1991 European Championship - 100m, 200m backstroke, 400m individual medley (3 Gold Medals) 

  • 1991 World Championship - 100m, 200m backstroke (2 Gold Medals) 

  • 1992 Olympics - 100m, 200m backstroke, 400m individual medley (3 Gold Medals)

  • 1993 European Championship - 100m, 200m backstroke, 200m butterfly, 400m individual medley (4 Gold Medals) 

  • 1994 World Championship - 200m backstroke (1 Silver Medal) 

  • 1995 European Championship - 200m backstroke, 400m individual medley (2 Gold Medals) 

  • 1996 Olympics - 200m backstroke (1 Gold Medal), 400m individual medley (1 Bronze Medal)

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