[Unicum] Spoiler Alert! Hungary Olympic Update for 8/9/2012

Updates for 8/9/2012:
With 4 medals, it's another "Golden Day for Hungary"
Two more Golds and two Silvers on August 9th as Hungarians continue their legacy of Swimming and Kayaking Prowess.
High expectations for more medals as Hungarians reach finals in multiple events! Watch LIVE online at NBC Olympics!

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Official Medal Count: 15 (8 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze)
Hungary now tied with France for #7 in total Gold Medals!
(Not including medals by Hungarians competing for other countries)

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All London 2012 Hungarian Medals: 19!
(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!
	Eva Risztov	Swimming: Women's 10K Open Water Marathon
	Rebecca Soni (Szőnyi)	Swimming: 200m Breaststroke WR!
	Rebecca Soni (Szőnyi)	Swimming: 4x100m Relay WR!
	Susan (Zsuzsanna) Francia	Women's Rowing 8
	Krisztina Fazekas	Women's Kayak Fours: K4 500m
	Katalin Kovacs	Women's Kayak Fours: K4 500m
	Gabriella Szabo	Women's Kayak Fours: K4 500m
	Danuta Kozak	Women's Kayak Fours: K4 500m
	Rudolf Dombi	Men's Kayak Doubles: K2 1000m
	Roland Kokeny	Men's Kayak Doubles: K2 1000m
	Rebecca Soni (Szőnyi)	Swimming: 100m Breaststroke
	Zoltan Kammerer	Men's Kayak Fours: K4 1000m
	Tamas Kulifai	Men's Kayak Fours: K4 1000m
	Daniel Pauman	Men's Kayak Fours: K4 1000m
	David Toth	Men's Kayak Fours: K4 1000m
	Miklos Ungvari	Men's Judo - 66Kg
	Tamas Lorincz	Wrestling: 66kg Greco-Roman
	Eva Csernowiczki	Women's Judo
	Laszlo Cseh	Swimming: 200m individual
	Peter Modos	Wrestling: 55kg Greco-Roman

2012 London Highlights

Updates from 8/9/2012 - For a full list of Athletes competing today, [click here]

• Another Gold for Hungarian Swimming:
  In an unexpected surprise, Eva Risztov secured the gruelling Marathon swim title winning Gold in the women's 10km Marathon open water swim. USA's Haley Anderson finished second to claim silver, with Italy's Martina Grimaldi taking bronze. Risztov has won multiple Silver medals in the World Championships and is European and Hungarian champion holding the European record in the 800m.
• MTI: "A hódmezővásárhelyi, 1985-ös születésű Risztov Éva korábban medencés úszó volt, és három világbajnoki ezüstig (2003, Barcelona: 200 pillangó, 400 gyors, 400 vegyes), valamint 6 Eb-ezüstig jutott. Rövid pályán (25 méteren) hatszoros Európa-bajnok, hétszeres ifi Eb-győztes, 57-szeres felnőtt magyar bajnok. 400 és 1500 gyorson országos csúcsot tartott, 800-on pedig Európa-csúcsot."
• In related news, Canada’s Zsofia Balazs earned Canada's first ever Olympic nomination in marathon swimming and finished 18th, some 4 minutes behind the winner.
• Kayak / Canoe Domination: Hungary Takes Another Gold and Two Silvers! A Plethora of Hungarians yield High Expectations in upcoming events!
• Gold in the women's Kayak Single (K1) 500m, for Danuta Kozak who posted the fastest qualifying time to reach the finals.
• Silver for the women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m, for Hungary's duo of Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Janics who had posted the second-best time in qualifying.
• Silver for the men's Kayak Fours (K4) 1000m!
  Olympic kayak legend and multiple Gold Medalist Zoltan Kammerer and his Hungarian team (David Toth, Tamas Kulifai, and Daniel Pauman) won Silver on August 9th with a time of 2:55.699, just behind the winners, Australia, who posted a time of 2:55.085. They had qualified for the final with the fastest time. Slovakia, featuring Hungarians Juraj (György) Tarr and Peter Gelle, came in 6th and did not medal. Czech Republic claimed the Bronze.
• 4th Olympic Medal for Zoltan Kammerer! He started competing in the 1990's and won three Gold Medals at the World Championships, the first in 1997. Since then, he has competed in four previous Summer Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, and 2004). At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Kammerer carried the Hungarian flag at the opening ceremonies. This was initially planned to be given to his fellow canoer György Kolonics who had died a month before the Games.
• Disappointment in the men’s C1 1000m. The man to beat was Hungary’s Olympic champion Attila Vajda but he finished 6th, 3 seconds behind the Gold medalist, 24-year-old Sebastian Brendel of Germany. After winning gold at Beijing 2008, Vajda, the 29-year-old was named the Hungarian sportsman of the year after winning the World Championships last year. Attila qualified for the finals posting the second best time.
• Vajda is also representing Hungary in the Canoe Single (C1) 200m heats on Friday, August 10th.
• Attila Vajda has competed since the early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he has won two medals in the C-1 1000m event with a gold in 2008 and a bronze in 2004.
• The women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m qualifying heats are scheduled for August 10th. Hungary will be represented by Natasa Janics.
• The Men's Kayak Single (K1) 200m heats begin on August 10th with Miklos Dudas representing Hungary.
• Hungarian Men's Handball Reach Semi-finals!
• Hungary beat Iceland 34-33 in extra-time to reach the semi-finals and send the Beijing silver medallists home. Iceland missed a penalty in the last few minutes of normal time that would have won the match. Afterwards the Hungary team celebrated by dancing around one of their coaches. Watch the full match replay via BBC Sport's interactive video player. The next match is scheduled for 17:00 GMT on Friday, August 10th.
• Water Polo: Hungary Eliminated
• Men's Team Hungary, who have won water polo gold at the last four Olympic games, were knocked out of London 2012. Going in search of their 10th gold medal in total, they were beaten 11-9 by Italy at the quarter-final stage.
• Despite reaching the finals, the Hungarian Women's Water Polo lost to Australia in the Bronze Medal match 13-11. The women's team reached the semi-finals by beating a strong Russian team 11-10 in another thrilling encounter, but lost to Spain in another close match. The women have never made it to the podium in the event's 12-year existence, narrowly missing out on the bronze in 2008. Team USA beat Spain to claim Gold in the championship match.  

Previous Medals:

• Canoe / Kayak (3 Gold, 2 Silver!):
• GOLD! In the men's Kayak Double (K2) 1000m! The team of Rudolf Dombi and Roland Kokeny representing Hungary took Gold with Portugal coming in for silver very close behind! While Peter Gelle, representing Slovakia in the finals finished last with teammate Erik Vlcek.
• GOLD! The women's K4 500m team of Katalin Kovacs, Gabriella Szabo, Danuta Kozak, and Krisztina Fazekas beat rivals Germany in front of 20,000 roaring fans on August 8th! It's Katalin Kovacs' 3rd Gold Medal!
• More from Reuters: "The Hungarian national anthem reverberated around the Dorney Lake course on Wednesday as Hungary took the early honors against its fierce rival Germany in the Olympic canoe regatta. Hungary, which alongside Germany has dominated the flatwater disciplines at recent Games, powered to gold in the men's K2 while the women's K4 won the final race of the day to deny Germany its fifth straight Olympic title. Germany, which had started the first day of the Olympic canoe finals as favourite for at least two of the four events, won one gold, one silver and two bronzes. "I cannot tell you how happy I am," a beaming Katalin Kovacs from the women's Hungarian K4 told reporters on the side of the lake after finally winning gold in the event to go with three Olympic silvers. Kovacs won gold medals in K2 in Athens and Beijing. [read more]
• Wrestling:
• Tamás Lőrincz wins Sliver in the Men's 66kg Greco-Roman! His opponent, Kim Hyeonwoo, whose eye was badly bruised and swollen, became the first Republic of Korea athlete to win gold in the lightweight event.
• Peter Modos wins Bronze in 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."
• 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, won gold in the European Championships last month and won European bronze in 2010 and a silver in the World Championship. Pars placed fourth at Beijing four years ago, but was promoted to second place when the two Belarusian throwers who finished in front of him were disqualified for failing doping controls. More than 18 months later, Pars and Murofushi, who had been elevated to silver and bronze medal positions, lost their medals when the Court of Arbitration for Sport reinstated Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan’s results from Beijing. The CAS said the doping tests were invalid because international laboratory standards were not respected in what it said was an “unusually complex doping case.”“This is a revenge for what happened at the Beijing Olympics,” Pars said. “Yes, it is a bit of a compensation for the silver I didn’t receive there. I feel life has given something back to me, something which eluded me four years ago.”
• Artistic Gymnastics: 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."
• Fencing: Szilagyi claims Hungary's first gold of 2012!
  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.
• Swimming: Hungarians Set THREE 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-American Rebecca Soni claims her 6th Olympic Medal (Winning 2 Gold and 1 Silver) and smashes her own World Record! Hungarian-American Rebecca Soni (Szőnyi) won Gold and broker her own World Record in the 200m Breaststroke. She also takes Gold in the Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay (as the US team sets another World Record) and Silver in the 100m Breaststroke!
• In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Soni won gold and set the World Record and also took home 2 Silver Medals in the 100m breaststroke and the 4x100m medley relay. Known to her family and friends as “Reb” and born in Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Rebecca is the daughter of Peter and Kinga Szőnyi from Kolozsvár (now a part of Rumania after annexation at the tragic Treaty of Trianon in 1920)! AHF CONGRATULATED REBECCA on behalf of the community!
• 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!
• Judo: Hungarians take silver and bronze
• 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.
• Rowing: 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.