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Hungarians in the Olympics
1996, Atlanta

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Highlights

Attila Czene sets New Olympic Swimming Record!
Legendary Krisztina Egerszegi wins her 5th Gold Medal!
Future WBO Featherweight Boxing Champion, "KO KO" Kovacs takes Gold
Karch Kiraly becomes only volleyball player in Olympic history to win three Gold medals!
Swimmers Norbert Rozsa and Karoly Guttler finish 1 - 2 in 200m Breastroke (Guttler repeats '88 Silver!)
 Men's Fencing take Silver
Men's Kayak 4 team take Silver

Gold Medalists:

Rozsa Norbert, Swimming: Men's 200m Breaststroke
Krisztina Egerszegi, Swimming: Women's 200m Backstroke
Czene Attila, Swimming: Men's 200m Ind. Medley - Olympic Record, 1:59.91
Karoly "Karch" Kiraly, Volleyball: Outdoor Beach - Competing for USA
Kiss Balazs, Track & Field: Men's Hammer Throw
Kovacs Istvan, Boxing: Bantamweight
Koban Rita, Canoe/Kayak: Women's K-1 500m

Men's Team Hungary - Canoe/Kayak: Men's C-2 500m

Horvath Csaba , 
Kolonics Gyorgy 1st Gold

Other Notables from 1996

Special thanks to Dr. Paul Szilágyi in Florida for this contribution:

Gyorgy Zala, Canoe/Kayak: Men's K-4 1000m Silver
Szilveszter Csollany: Gymnastics Men's Rings Silver - Won Olympic Gold in 2000 and World Championship on rings in 2003!
Men's Team Hungary, Fencing: Sabre, Silver 
Karoly Guttler Swimming: Men's 200m Breaststroke Silver 
Gabriela Szabo, Track: Women's 1500m Silver - Competing for Rumania 
Geza Imre, Fencing: Men's Individual Epee Bronze 
Krisztina Egerszegi, Swimming Women's 400m Ind. Medley Bronze 
Szalay Horvathne, Fencing: Women's Individual Epee Bronze 
Attila Feri, Weightlifting 70kg Bronze
Agnes Kovacs, Swimming Women's 200m Breaststroke Bronze 
Janos Martinek, Pentathlon Bronze 
Jozsef Gonci (Gonczi), Shooting: 50m Free Rifle prone Bronze - Competing for Slovakia. World Champion!
Women's Team Hungary, Handball: Bronze 
Gyorgy Zala, Canoe/Kayak: Men's C-1 1000m Bronze 
Gyorgy Zala, Canoe/Kayak Men's C-2 1000m Bronze 
Imre Pulai, Canoe/Kayak Men's C-1 500m Bronze
Men's Team Hungary - Waterpolo: Lost to Italy 20 - 19 in Bronze Match. 
Ivan Kovacs - Individual Epee: Lost to countryman, Imre Geza, in Bronze match. 
Women's Team Hungary - Fencing/Foil: Lost to Germany 45-42 in Bronze Match 
Women's Team Hungary - Fencing/Epee: 4th 
Geza Magyar - Kayak: Finished 4th in 500m., Competed for Rumania.  
Jozsef Csak - Judo, 143lbs., 4th place 
Imre Tiideman - Modern Pentathlon, 7th place (Best US - 16th). Competed for Estonia.  
Akos Hanzely - Modern Pentathlon, 6th Competed for Slovakia.
Csaba Orosz, Peter Pales - C2 1000, 7th. Competed for Slovakia.

See all 1996 medalists (in Hungarian)

 

 

Featured Olympian, Norbert Rozsa:
(b. 2/9/1972, Budapest, Hungary, d. )

Rozsa swam his first race at 7 and has been a member of national team since 1989. He became World champion at 100 and 200m Breaststroke in 1994 and held the world record for the 100m Breaststroke between 1991 and 1993, when teammate Karoly GUTTLER lowered the standard from 1:01.29 to 1:00.95. A motivated Rozsa improved dramatically to become world 100m Breastroke champion at Perth, Australia in 1991and also took second in the 200m event. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona,he finished 2nd in both 100m and 200m Breaststroke. His guardian at the time was Gyorgy Zemplenyi, who is being hunted by Interpol on suspicion of fraud...after Zemplenyi disappeared, Rozsa left Hungary for Australia. After training at the Australian Institute of Sport for a year, Rozsa returned to Hungary and renowned coach Tamas Szechy. Rozsa missed the 1993 European Championships in Sheffield, but returned to win 2 world titles in Rome the next year. In 1995, he was 4th in both 100 and 200m Breaststroke at the European Championships in Vienna...

Look at this incredible record:

  • World Records: 100m Breastroke - World Record 1:01.29 - Rome ITA 20 AUG 91; World Record 1:01.45 - Perth AUS 8 JAN 91; World Record 1:01.49 - Perth AUS 7 JAN 91

  • World Champion: 1991, 1994 (100m Breastroke), 1994 (200m Breastroke)

  • 1992 Olympics - 100m Breaststroke Silver, 

  • 1996 Olympics - 200m backstroke Gold

Featured Olympian, Istvan "KO KO" Kovacs:
(b. Hungary, d. )

Olympic, World Amateur, and World Professional Featherweight Boxing Champion...
 Istvan 'KO-KO' Kovacs announced his retirement from professional boxing on March 1,2002. After a successful amateur career, Kovacs turned professional and won the World Boxing Organization featherweight title against Dominican Antonio Diaz in Munich in January 2001. Six months later, in front of 15,000 stunned fans in Budapest, he lost the title on a sixth-round technical knockout to Argentine Julio Pablo Chacon. Kovacs returned to the ring, but after beating a Nicaraguan fighter decided to hang up his gloves.

World amateur champion in 1991 and 1997, Kovacs won Olympic gold at the Atlanta Games and bronze in Barcelona. He also won gold at the 1991 and 1996 European amateur championships

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