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Swimmers win big again: Krisztina Egerszegi wins 3 more Gold Medals
and Tamas Darnyi wins 2 more!
Future
Gold Medalist, and world-record setter, Norbert Rozsa, takes 2 Silvers
Future
Gold Medalist, and Olympic record setter, Attila Czene, takes Bronze
Gold Medalists:
Szabo Bence, Fencing: sabre
Onodi Henrietta, Gymnastics: horse vault
Kovacs Antal, Judo: 95 kg
Darnyi Tamas, Swimming: 200 m individual medley, 3rd
Gold
Darnyi Tamas, Swimming: 400 m individual medley, 4th
Gold
Egerszegi Krisztina, Swimming:
women’s 100 m backstroke, 2nd Gold
Egerszegi Krisztina, Swimming: women’s 200 m
backstroke, 3rd Gold
Egerszegi Krisztina, Swimming: women’s 400 m
individual medley, 4th Gold
Farkas Peter, Wrestling: Graeco-Roman, 82 kg
Attila Repka, Wrestling: Graeco-Roman, 68 kg
Women's Team Hungary - Canoe/Kayak: K4
- 500M
Cigany Kinga,
Donusz Eva,
Koban Rita,
Meszaros
Erika
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1992 medalists (in Hungarian)
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Olympian, Tamas Darnyi:
(b. 6/3/1967, Budapest, Hungary, d. )
King of the Medley: 1st swimmer
to break 2 minutes in 200m IM
The most demanding of swimming events is the individual medley, in
which the swimmer must use each of four strokes. Darnyi is the
greatest medley swimmer in Olympic history. When Darnyi was 15
years old, he lost the vision in his left eye as a result of being
hit by an icy snowball three years earlier. Darnyi entered the 1988
Olympics as the world record holder in both the 200m and 400m medleys.
In Seoul he won both races and set another world record in each. At
the Barcelona Games in 1992, Darnyi successfully defended both of
his Olympic titles and completed an eight-year stretch during which
he was undefeated at either distance.
During a seven-year
period of time in the 1980’s and 1990’s, Tamas Darnyi rose from the
water as the world’s fastest individual medley swimmer.
His father, a steel factory worker, saw a newspaper ad in the
Budapest paper for swimming lessons.
Darnyi was enrolled and when the six-year-old exhibited great
potential he enrolled in a competitive program at the Central Sports
Club coached by Tamas Szechy, the country’s most successful coach.
Growing up, Darnyi trained with outstanding Szechy protégés
Andras Hargitay and Zoltan Verraszto both of whom set world records
in the 400m individual medley.
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