Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Hungary)

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Hungary took 33 athletes to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wheelchair fencer Judit Palfi . The swimmer Tamas Sors celebrated the greatest success with one gold and two bronze medals.

Participants by sport

Boccia

Men

• Dezso Beres
• Jozsef Gyurkota

Judo

Women

• Nikolett Szabo

Men

• Gábor cardboard
• Gábor Vincze

Powerlifting (bench press)

Men

• Sandor Sas
• Csaba Szavai

Wheelchair fencing

Women

• Gyöngyi Dani
• Veronika Juhász
• Zsuzsanna Krajnyák
• Judit Palfi

Men

• Gábor Horváth
• Gyula Mato
• Pal Szekeres , 1 × (foil, class B)

Wheelchair tennis

Men

• Laszlo Farkas
• Csaba Prohaszka

rowing

Men

• Tibor Serenyi

shoot

Men

• Gyula Gurisatti

swim

Women

• Dorottya Baka
• Katalin Engelhardt
• Fanni Illes
• Gitta Raczko , 1 × (100 meter chest, class SB5)
• Diana Zambo

Men

• Janos Becsey
• Zoltan Bencsura
• Ferenc Csuri
• Ervin Kovacs
• Tamas Sors , 1 × (100 meters butterfly, class S9), 2 × (100 meters + 400 meters freestyle, class S9)
• Zsolt Vereczkei , 1 × (50 meters back, class S5)

sailing

Men

• Zoltan Pegan

Table tennis

Men

• Dezso Berecki
• Andras Csonka
• Gyula Zborai

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )