[Unicum] 8/2/2012 London Olympic Update!

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2012 London Highlights

• Updated 8/2/2012
• Reigning Olympic Water Polo champions Hungary claimed their first points in the tournament following a 17-15 win over Romania and stay alive!
• Gemma Gibbons delivered Great Britain's first Olympic Judo medal in 12 years with a silver after losing to Harrison. Gibbons caught the attention of the crowd as she battled through to the semi-finals and then disposed of world champion Audrey Tcheumeo with an Ippon throw in golden score. Tcheumeo picked herself up to win the bronze-medal fight against Abigel Joo of Hungary.
• Szilagyi claims Hungary's first gold
  Hungary's incredible Olympic Games record in men's Sabre Fencing continued as 22-year-old Aron Szilagyi grabbed their first gold of London 2012. It was the 13th time a Hungarian has triumphed in the event - and that includes an amazing run of 11 out of 12 victories between 1908 and 1964. Szilagyi is the only Hungarian fencer in the world's top 50 - he is ranked sixth - and was the country's only representative in the 36-strong field.
• Hungarians Set TWO WORLD RECORDS!
• Daniel Gyurta claims gold in record time! Hungary's Daniel Gyurta set a new world record in the men's 200m Breaststroke final to hold off Japan's Double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima and Great Britain's Michael Jamieson for the gold medal.
• Hungarian-Ameican Rebecca Soni claims Gold and smashes her own World Record! Hungarian-American Rebecca Soni (Sőni) set the second world record in the 200m Breaststroke semis. She also won gold and set the World Record in the 2008 Beijing Olympics where she also took home 2 Silver Medals in the 100m breaststroke and the 4x100m medley relay. Soni reclaimed the world record semifinal breaststroke heat. Known to her family and friends as “Reb” and born in Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Rebecca is the daughter of Peter and Kinga Soni from Kolozsvár (now a part of Rumania after annexation at the tragic Treaty of Trianon in 1920)!
• Laszlo Cseh takes bronze behind Ryan Lochte who took Silver and the legendary Michael Phelps who won the men's 200m individual Gold Medal - his record setting 16th Gold! Phelps became the first man in Olympic history to win Gold in the same event in three Olympics!
• Hungarians take silver and bronze in Judo
• Lashas Shavdatuashvili claimed gold in the men's -66kg Judo competition for Georgia with a narrow win over Hungarian Miklos Ungvari.
• In the women's competition, Eva Csernowiczki beat two-time world silver medallist Tomoko Fukumi to take the bronze medal.
• Susan (Zsuzsanna) Francia claims second consecutive Gold in Women's Rowing 8 for the United States!
• She won her first gold in Beijing 2008 and won Gold Medals in 5 out of 6 consecutive Rowing World Championships and claimed 2 more consecutive Gold Medals in the World Cup. Susan was born November 8, 1982 in Szeged, Hungary. She moved to the US at the age of 6 and grew up in Abington, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 with a degree in Criminology and Sociology. She currently resides in Princeton, New Jersey and is affiliated with the US Rowing Training Center. She is fluent in Hungarian.
• Jozef (József) Gönci, who won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal in Atlanta 1994 (a bronze) and won another bronze in Athens 2004, was Slovakia's Flag Bearer in London 2012.

London 2012 Hungarian Medals!

Medal	Name	Event
	Aron Szilagyi	Fencing: Men's Sabre
	Daniel Gyurta	Swimming: 200m Breaststroke WR!
	Rebecca Soni (Sőni)	Swimming: 200m Breaststroke WR!
	Susan (Zsuzsanna) Francia	Women's Rowing 8
	Miklos Ungvari	Men's Judo - 66Kg
	Eva Csernowiczki	Women's Judo
	Laszlo Cseh	Swimming: 200m individual