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Highlights Swimmer Kovacs Agnes wins Gold and Sets Olympic Record! Kayakers Storcz Botond and Kammerer Zoltan each win TWO Gold Medals in different events! Kayaker Kolonics Gyorgy wins 2nd Gold! Gold Medalists: Kolonics Gyorgy, Canoeing Sprint: C-1 500m, 2nd Gold Novak Ferenc, Canoeing Sprint: C-2 500m Pulai Imre, Canoeing Sprint: C-2 500m Kammerer Zoltan, Canoeing Sprint: K-2 500m 1st Gold Storcz Botond, Canoeing Sprint: K-2 500m 1st Gold Nagy Timea, Fencing: Individual Epee Kovacs Agnes, Swimming: 200m Breaststroke - Olympic record 2:24.92 Szilveszter Csollany: Gymnastics Men's Rings - Won World Championship on rings in 2003! Men's Team Hungary - Waterpolo: 7th Gold Benedek Tibor,  Biros Peter,  Fodor Rajmund,  Kasas Tamas,  Kiss Gergely,  Kosz Zoltan,  Marcz Tamas,  Molnar Tamas,  Steinmetz Barnabas,  Szecsi Zoltan,  Szekely Bulcsu,  Varga Zsolt,  Vari Attila  Men's Team Hungary - Kayak Sprint: K-4 1000m: Horvath Gabor, Storcz Botond, 2nd Gold Kammerer Zoltan, 2nd Gold Vereczkei Akos Other Notables from 2000 Erdei Zsolt, Boxing 75kg, Silver Balogh Gabor, Modern Pentathlon, Silver Bardosi Sandor Istvan, Greco Roman Wrestling, Silver Peresztegine Markus Erszebet, Weightlifting, 69kg, Silver Women's Team Hungary, Handball, Silver Women's Team Hungary, Canoe/Kayak: K2-500m, Silver Women's Team Hungary, Canoe/Kayak: K4-500m, Silver See all 2000 medalists (in Hungarian)

Featured Olympian, Szilveszter "Szilas" Csollany: (b. 4/13/1970, Sopron, Hungary, d. ) "Lord of the Rings" Captured the World Championship in 2003 at the "old" age of 32 ending his streak of five silver medals in world championships. Look at this incredible record: 2002 World Champion 2000 Olympics - Gold 1996 Olympics - Silver 1998 European Champion; Silver in 2000 1991 European Cup Champion - Pommel Horse 20-time Hungarian Champion  2-Time "Sportsman of the Year" (2000, 2002) - See this interesting site in Hungarian where he personally answers questions from fans. Featured 2002 Winter Olympian, Dana Antal: (b. 4/19/1977, Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, Canada ) Star Forward on Canada's "Golden Girl's" Hockey Team! Dana’s hockey career began in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan at the tender age of five. At first, it was figure skating, then she turned to boys’ hockey because everyone else in town was playing. Dana Antal scored three goals and had seven points to help Canada to the gold medal at the world championships last year. She missed the 2000 worlds due to a knee injury. She played college hockey at Cornell University in the U.S., for two years and also spent a season in Switzerland. She now attends the University of Calgary and plays for the Oval X-Treme. Highlights: Gold medallist at World Championships in 2001; Gold medallist at Four Nations Cup in 2001. - Read more Click for larger images

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