[Unicum] 8/5/2012 - Hungary Olympic Update

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Official Medal Count:
Hungary now ranks #10 in total Gold Medals
(Not including medals by Hungarians competing for other countries)

All London 2012 Hungarian Medals!
(including Hungarians competing for other countries)

Medal	Name	Event
	Krisztian Pars	Hammer Throw
	Krisztian Berki	Gymnastics: Pommel Horse
	Aron Szilagyi	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
	Peter Modos	Wrestling: 55-kg Greco-Roman

2012 London Highlights

Updated 8/5/2012
Hungary has earned 8 medals - now ranked 10th in Gold, 12th Overall!

• Miscellaneous News
• Reigning Olympic (and nine-time Gold Medalists) Men's Water Polo champions Hungary kept their dream of a record-breaking fourth consecutive gold medal alive and advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Great Britain, 17-6. Their next match is against a strong United States squad on Monday, August 6th.
• Hungarian Women's Water Polo reached the semi-finals by beating Russia 11-10 in a thrilling encounter. With the scores tied after three quarters, the Hungarians - going in search of their first Olympic Games medal in the women's event - clinched the final period by a single goal. While the Hungarian men are the most successful Olympic water polo team, the women have never made it to the podium in the event's 12-year existence, narrowly missing out on the bronze in 2008.
• In the men’s C1 1000m, the man to beat will be Hungary’s Olympic champion Attila Vajda. After winning gold at Beijing 2008, the 29-year-old was named the Hungarian sportsman of the year and his success has continued after winning the World Championships last year.
• The Hungarian Men's handball team are trying to advance to the final 8 as they go head-to-head in the final Group B game with Serbia.
• Krisztian Pars claims Hammerthrow Gold!
  Hungary's Krisztian Pars produced a best effort of 80.59m to claim gold in the men's Hammer Throw competition on August 5th! Pars, 30, who won gold in the European Championships last month, finished fourth in Beijing four years ago and won European bronze in 2010 and a silver in the World Championship.
• Krisztian Berki takes Pommel Horse Gold!
  Hungarian double world champion Krisztian Berki broke British hearts as he dramatically snatched the Olympic pommel horse gold medal on August 5th and edged out Louis Smith on a tie-break with the execution score. His routine was greeted by "big contingent of flag-waving Hungarian fans."
• Peter Modos wins Bronze in Wrestling
  Peter Modos won the 55-kg bronze medal match in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was so excited by his unexpected victory, Luke Meredith from the Associated Press tweeted: "Hungarian wrestler Peter Modos certainly isn't sneezing at a bronze medal. After beating Denmark's Erik Nybloom to win a bronze out of the 55-kilogram consolation bracket, Modos ran over and jumped so high into his coach's arms that his torso nearly smacked his coach's shoulder. Modos then ran across the mat and did a cartwheel, which he followed with a succession of backflips.
  He also hugged Nybloom, who understandably wasn't all that into it.
• 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.

[See the Huffington Post's Interactive 2012 Olympic Medal Count Map] See Medal Totals By Country, Population, and Wealth! How does Hungary rank by population?