1924 Summer Olympics / Participant (Hungary)

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2	3	4th

Hungary took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris with a delegation of 89 athletes (86 men and 3 women) in 54 competitions in 12 competitions.

The Hungarian athletes won two gold, three silver and four bronze medals. Olympic champions were Sándor Pósta in saber fencing and Gyula Halasy in trap shooting. Elemér Somfay secured silver in the modern pentathlon, Lajos Keresztes in the Greco-Roman wrestling in the lightweight and the men's saber team. János Garay each won a bronze medal in saber fencing, Károly Bartha in the 100 m backstroke, Raymund Badó in the Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestling and the men's foil team. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Sándor Toldi .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Béla Lőwig

  eliminated in the 1st round

fencing

• János Garay

  Bronze saber

  Silver saber crew

• Sándor Pósta

  Gold saber

  Bronze foil team

  Silver saber crew

• Zoltán Schenker

  Bronze foil team

  Silver saber crew

• Ödön Tersztyánszky

  Bronze foil team

  Silver saber crew

• László Berti

  Bronze foil team

  Silver saber crew

• István Lichteneckert

  Bronze foil team

• József Rády

  Silver saber crew

• László Széchy

  Silver saber crew

• Jenő Uhlyárik

  Silver saber crew

Soccer

• 9th place

  János Biri

  József Braun

  József Eisenhoffer

  Károly Fogl

  Béla Guttmann

  Ferenc Hirzer

  Rudolf Jeny

  Gyula Mandi

  Gábor Obitz

  Zoltán Opata

  György Orth

Art competitions

• Alfréd Hajós

  Silver architecture

• Dezső Lauber

  Silver architecture

athletics

• Pál Bedő
• Lajos Csejthey
• Mihály Fekete
• Jenő Gáspár
• Ferenc Gerő
• István Grósz
• Pál Király
• István Kultsár
• Lajos Kurunczy
• Antal Lovas
• Kálmán Marvalits
• László Muskát
• Tibor Püspöki
• Gusztáv Rózsahegyi
• Elemér Somfay

  Silver decathlon

• Sándor Toldi

Cycling

• Mihály Rusovszky

  Time trial road: 51st place

• Ferenc Steiner

  Time trial road: 24th place

• János Grimm

  Sprint track: prelims

  Tandem course: semi-finals

• Ferenc Uhereczky

  Sprint track: prelims

  Tandem course: semi-finals

Wrestling

• Raymund Badó

  Bronze heavyweight

• István Dömény
• Ferenc Györgyei
• Lajos Keresztes

  Silver lightweight

• Sándor Kónyi
• Armand Magyar
• Mihály Matura
• Jenő Németh
• Ödön Radvány
• Ottó Szelky
• József Tasnádi
• Béla Varga

rowing

• Ervin Mórich

  Double scull: semifinals

• Béla Szendey

  Double scull: semifinals

• Sándor Hautzinger

  Foursome with helmsman: hope run

• Károly cook

  Foursome with helmsman: hope run

• István Szendeffy

  Foursome with helmsman: hope run

• Zoltán Török

  Foursome with helmsman: hope run

• Lajos Wick

  Foursome with helmsman: hope run

shoot

• Gyula Halasy

  Gold trap

• Sándor Lumniczer
• Sándor Prokopp
• Gusztáv Szomjas
• László Szomjas
• Elemér Takács
• Rezső Velez

swim

Men István Bárány Károly Bartha Bronze 100 m back Frigyes Hollósi Zoltán Bitskey Marton Sipos

Women Ella Molnár

tennis

Men Lajos Göncz Béla from Kehrling Aurél from Kelemen Kálmán Kirchmayr

Women Ilona Várady-Péter

Water polo

• 5th place

  István Barta

  Tibor Fazekas

  Lajos Homonnai

  Marton Homonnai

  Alajos Keserű

  Ferenc Keserű

  József Vértesy

  János Wenk

Web links

• Hungarian Olympic team from 1924 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )