Hungary at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Hungary finished in third position in the final medal rankings, behind only the United States and Soviet Union.

The following competitors won multiple medals at the 1952 Olympic Games.

Name	Medal	Sport	Event
Pál Kovács	Gold  Gold	Fencing	Men's team sabre Men's sabre
Katalin Szőke	Gold  Gold	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay
Éva Novák-Gerard	Gold  Silver  Silver	Swimming	Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay Women's 200 m breaststroke Women's 400 m freestyle
Margit Korondi	Gold  Silver  Bronze  Bronze  Bronze  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's uneven bars Women's artistic team all-around Women's floor Women's balance beam Women's artistic individual all-around Women's team portable apparatus
Ágnes Keleti	Gold  Silver  Bronze  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's floor Women's artistic team all-around Women's uneven bars Women's team portable apparatus
Aladár Gerevich	Gold  Silver  Bronze	Fencing	Men's team sabre Men's sabre Men's team foil
Gábor Benedek	Gold  Silver	Modern pentathlon	Men's team Men's individual
Tibor Berczelly	Gold  Bronze  Bronze	Fencing	Men's team sabre Men's sabre Men's team foil
István Szondy	Gold  Bronze	Modern pentathlon	Men's team Men's individual
Judit Temes	Gold  Bronze	Swimming	Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay Women's 100 m freestyle
Edit Perényi-Weckinger	Silver  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around Women's team portable apparatus
Olga Tass	Silver  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around Women's team portable apparatus
Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles	Silver  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around Women's team portable apparatus
Mária Zalai-Kövi	Silver  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around Women's team portable apparatus
Andrea Molnár-Bodó	Silver  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around Women's team portable apparatus
Irén Daruházi-Karcsics	Silver  Bronze	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around Women's team portable apparatus

Men's Team Competition

• Qualification Round (Group B)

• Defeated Greece (75-38)
• Lost to Philippines (35-48)
• Defeated Greece (47-44)

• Main Round (Group A)

• Lost to United States (48-66)
• Lost to Uruguay (56-70)
• Lost to Czechoslovakia (39-63) → did not advance, 15th place

• Team Roster

• László Bánhegyi
• Pál Bogár
• György Bokor
• Tibor Cselkó
• Tibor Czinkán
• János Greminger
• László Hódy
• Tibor Mezőfi
• Péter Papp
• János Simon
• Gyula Telegdy
• Tibor Zsíros

Men's Flyweight:

• Kornél Molnár

1. First Round – Lost to William Michael Toweel of South Africa (0 - 3)

Men's Featherweight:

• János Erdei

1. First Round – Defeated Georges Malézanoff of Bulgaria (2 - 1)
2. Second Round – Defeated Kurt Schirra of Saarland (3 - 0)
3. Third Round – Lost to Jan Zachara of Czechoslovakia (1 - 2)

Men's Lightweight:

• István Juhász

1. First Round – Defeated Luis Albino Acuña of Uruguay (3 - 0)
2. Second Round – Defeated Clayton Orten Kenny of Canada (2 - 1)
3. Third Round – Lost to Aureliano Bolognesi of Italy (1 - 2)

Light-welterweight

• Béla Farkas

1. First Round – Lost to Pavle Šovljanski of Yugoslavia (0 - 3)

Men's Welterweight:

• Pál Budai

1. First Round – Lost to Günther Heidemann of Germany (1 - 2)

Men's Light-Middleweight:

• László Papp → Gold Medal

1. First Round – Defeated Ellsworth Webb of United States (KO 2R)
2. Second Round – Defeated Charles Chase of Canada (KO 2R)
3. Third Round – Defeated Petar Stankoff Spassoff of Bulgaria (3 - 0)
4. Semifinal – Defeated Eladio Oscar Herrera of Argentina (3 - 0)
5. Final – Defeated Theunis Jacobus van Schalkwyk of South Africa (3 - 0)

Men's Middleweight:

• Mátyás Plachy

1. First Round – Lost to Nelson de Paula Andrade of Brazil (1 - 2)

Men's Light-heavyweight

• István Fazekas

1. First Round – Lost to Toon Pastor of Netherlands (0 - 3)

Men's Heavyweight:

• László Bene

1. Second Round – Lost to Ilkka Koski of Finland (KO 2R)

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• István Lang — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• István Schillerwein — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Lajos Látó — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

• István Lang

• Final — 1:16.9 (→ 18th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Béla Szekeres — 6th place

17 fencers, 14 men and 3 women, represented Hungary in 1952.

Men's foil

• Endre Tilli
• Lajos Maszlay
• Endre Palócz

Men's team foil

• Endre Tilli, Aladár Gerevich, Endre Palócz, Lajos Maszlay, Tibor Berczelly, József Sákovics

Men's épée

• József Sákovics
• Barnabás Berzsenyi
• Béla Rerrich

Men's team épée

• Lajos Balthazár, Barnabás Berzsenyi, Béla Rerrich, József Sákovics, Imre Hennyei

Men's sabre

• Pál Kovács
• Aladár Gerevich
• Tibor Berczelly

Men's team sabre

• Aladár Gerevich, Tibor Berczelly, Rudolf Kárpáti, Pál Kovács, László Rajcsányi, Bertalan Papp

Women's foil

• Ilona Schachererné Elek
• Magdolna Nyári-Kovács
• Margit Elek

Three male pentathletes represented Hungary in 1952. They won gold in the team event with Gábor Benedek winning silver and István Szondy winning bronze in the individual event.

Individual

• Gábor Benedek
• István Szondy
• Aladár Kovácsi

Team

• Gábor Benedek
• István Szondy
• Aladár Kovácsi

Hungary had 15 male rowers participate in three out of seven rowing events in 1952.^[2]

Men's coxed pair

• László Halász
• József Sátori
• Róbert Zimonyi (cox)

Men's coxless four

• László Decker
• Imre Kaffka
• János Hollósi
• Imre Kemény

Men's eight

• István Sándor
• Csaba Kovács
• Miklós Zágon
• Tibor Nádas
• Rezső Riheczky
• Pál Bakos
• László Marton
• Béla Zsitnik
• Róbert Zimonyi (cox)

Six shooters represented Hungary in 1952. In the 25 m pistol event Károly Takács won gold and Szilárd Kun won silver. Ambrus Balogh won bronze in the 50 m pistol.

25 m pistol

• Károly Takács
• Szilárd Kun

50 m pistol

• Ambrus Balogh
• Ferenc Décsey

300 m rifle, three positions

• Ambrus Balogh
• Ferenc Décsey

50 m rifle, three positions

• Imre Ágoston
• János Dosztály

50 m rifle, prone

• Imre Ágoston
• János Dosztály

Men

Ranks given are within the heat.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
György Ipacs	100 m freestyle	59.1	2 Q	59.4	6	Did not advance
Géza Kádas		58.4	1 Q	57.8	1 Q	58.6	5
György Csordás	400 m freestyle	4:45.7	1 Q	DNS		Did not advance
Gusztáv Kettesi		4:53.0	2 Q	4:54.2	6	Did not advance
György Csordás	1500 m freestyle	19:26.2	2	—N/a		Did not advance
László Gyöngyösi	100 m backstroke	1:10.0	4	Did not advance
Imre Nyéki		1:10.6	5	Did not advance
László Gyöngyösi György Csordás Géza Kádas Imre Nyéki Gusztáv Kettesi	4 × 200 m freestyle	8:54.6	2 Q	—N/a		8:52.6	5

Women

Ranks given are within the heat.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ilona Novák	100 m freestyle	1:07.7	2 Q	1:07.8	4	Did not advance
Katalin Szőke		1:07.1	1 Q	1:07.2	2 Q	1:06.8
Judit Temes		1:05.5 OR	1 Q	1:07.4	5 Q	1:07.1
Valéria Gyenge	400 m freestyle	5:22.6	1 Q	5:16.9	1 Q	5:12.1 OR
Éva Novák		5:19.1	1 Q	5:21.3	2 Q	5:13.7
Éva Székely		5:20.9	2 Q	5:19.3	3 Q	5:17.9	6
Magdolna Hunyadfy	100 m backstroke	1:19.6	4	—N/a		Did not advance
Klára Killermann	200 m breaststroke	2:59.1	2 Q	2:56.5	2 Q	2:57.6	4
Éva Novák		2:54.0 OR	1 Q	2:55.8	1 Q	2:54.4
Éva Székely		2:55.1	1 Q	2:54.0 =OR	1 Q	2:51.7
Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szőke Mária Littomeritzky	4 × 100 m freestyle	4:32.5	1 Q	—N/a		4:24.4 WR