1952 Winter Olympics / Participant (Hungary)

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Hungary participated in the VI. 1952 Winter Olympics in the Norwegian capital Oslo with a delegation of 12 athletes in four disciplines, eight of them men and four women. The figure skaters Marianna Nagy and László Nagy won the only medal in Hungary with bronze in pairskatingat these games.

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the speed skater Lőrincz Ferenc .

Participants by sport

figure skating

Men

• György Czakó

  12th place (132,233)

Women

• Eszter Jurek

  23rd place (121,478)

Couples

• Éva Szöllösy / Gábor Vida

  10th place (9,244)

• Marianna Nagy / László Nagy

  Bronze (10,822)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• József Merényi

  500 m: 32nd place (46.7 s)

  1500 m: 21st place (2: 26.1 min)

  5000 m: 26th place (8: 56.6 min)

  10,000 m: 17th place (18: 09.0 min)

• Ferenc Lőrincz

  500 m: 28th place (46.1 s)

  1500 m: 10th place (2: 23.7 min)

  5000 m: 21st place (8: 51.2 min)

Alpine skiing

Men

• József Piroska

  Giant Slalom: 79th place (3: 39.3 min)

  Slalom: Eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Ildikó Szendrődi-Kővári

  Downhill: 32nd place (2: 18.5 min)

  Giant slalom: 37th place (2: 41.7 min)

  Slalom: 30th place (2: 30.3 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Pál Sajgó

  18 km: 53rd place (1:13:25 h)

  50 km: 27th place (4:38:34 h)

• Ignác Berecz

  18 km: 31st place (4:46:23 h)

Web links

• Hungary at the 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )