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Hungarian Olympic Triumph!
by Bryan Dawson

Did you know...as of 2016, Hungary ranks 8th in the world in medals at the Summer Olympic Games despite its being torn apart after WWI and losing half her population and 2/3 of her territory. This does not include an additional 6 medals won in the Winter Olympics nor the Hungarians that won medals as nationals of other countries after borders were redrawn or after large-scale emigration.

Ferenc Kemeny, founding member of the International Olympic Committee.

The beginnings of the Olympic movement in Hungary go back further than the Games in Athens. Ferenc Kemeny, a great pacifist and member of the International Peace Bureau, was one of Pierre de Coubertin's first kindred spirits, with whom he struck up a friendship in the 1880's.

Kemeny took an active part in the Congress for the re-establishment of the Games held in Paris in 1894 and was one of the founding members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Coubertin supported Kemeny's suggestion to hold the first Olympics in Budapest in 1896 in honor of Hungary's 1000 years of statehood. While the dream of hosting an Olympics is not yet realized, Hungary has won more Olympic medals than any other nation that has never hosted the Games.

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• [Start page]
• [Ferenc Kemeny and the Origins of the Olympic Movement]
• [1896, Athens]
• [1900, Paris]
• [1904, St. Louis]

• [1906, Athens]
• [1908, London]
• [1912, Stockholm]
• [1920, Antwerp]
• [1924, Paris]
• [1928, Amsterdam]
• [1932, Los Angeles]

• [1936, Berlin]
• [1948, London]  
• [1952, Helsinki]
• [1956, Melbourne]
• [1960, Rome]
• [1964, Tokyo]
• [1968, Mexico City]

• [1972, Munich]
• [1976, Montreal]
• [1980, Moscow]
• [1984, Los Angeles]
• [1988, Seoul]
• [1992, Barcelona]
• [1996, Atlanta]

• [2000, Sydney]
• [2004, Athens]
• [2008, Beijing]
• [2012, London]
• [2014, Sochi]
• [2016, Rio de Janeiro]
  

1932 Los Angeles Highlights

• The 1932 Hungarian Men's Fencing continued Hungary's historic streak of a Gold through 14 CONSECUTIVE Olympics!
  • Legendary Fencer Gerevich Aladar wins first of his RECORD 7 GOLD MEDALS!
  • Petschauer Attila wins 2nd consecutive Gold
  • Pelle Istvan takes 2 Golds and 2 Silvers!
  • Piller Gyorgy wins 2 Golds
• Men's Team Waterpolo begins Hungary's Olympic Championship legacy with their first Gold!
• Future Wrestling Gold Medalist, Karpati Karoly, wins Silver
• Future Wrestling Gold Medalist, Zombori Odon, wins Silver

Medal	Name	Event
	Énekes István	Boxing flyweight / ökölvívás légsúly
	Kabos Endre	Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
	Gerevich Aladár (Gerei Aladár)	Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
	Glykais Gyula	Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
	Nagy Ernő	Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
	Petschauer Attila	Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
	Piller-Jekelfalussy György	Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
	Garay János	Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
	Piller-Jekelfalussy György	Individual Fencing / vívás kard egyéni
	Bródy György	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Barta István (Berger István)	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Halassy Olivér (Haltmayer Olivér)	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Homonnai Márton (Hlavacsek Márton)	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Ivády Sándor dr.	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Keserű Alajos	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Keserű Ferenc dr.	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Sárkány Miklós	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Vértesy (Vrábel) József	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Németh János	Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
	Pelle István dr.	Gymnastics Pommel Horse / torna lólengés
	Pelle István dr.	Gymnastics / műszabadgyakorlat
	Pelle István dr.	Gymnastics / torna korlát
	Pelle István dr.	Gymnastics / torna összetett egyéni
	Zombori Ödön (Zanich, Janicsek)	Wrestling / birkózás szabadfogás 56 kg
	Manno Miltiades	Sculpture / művészet szobrászat
	Kárpáti Károly (Kellner Károly)	Wrestling / birkózás kötöttfogás 66 kg
	Bogen-Bogáti Erna	Individual Fencing / vívás tőr egyéni
	Bárány István dr.	Swimming freestyle relay / 4x200 m gyors
	Szabados László	Swimming freestyle relay / 4x200 m gyors
	Székely András	Swimming freestyle relay / 4x200 m gyors
	Wanié András	Swimming freestyle relay / 4x200 m gyors
	Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky Zoltán	Shooting / sportlövészet kisöbű puska fekvő
	Tunyogi József	Wrestling / birkózás szabadfogás 79 kg
	Kabos Endre	Individual Fencing / vívás kard egyéni
	Szollás László dr.	Figure Skating - pairs / műkorcsolya páros
	Rotter Emília	Figure Skating - pairs / műkorcsolya páros

See all 1932 medalists (in Hungarian)

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Gerevich Aladar:
(b. Jaszbereny 3/16/1910, d. 5/14/1991)

The "Greatest of all Olympic Fencers"...
Aladar Gerevich is the greatest of all Olympic fencers. His six successive gold medals in the sabre team event at every Games from 1932 to 1960 stands as a record for any Olympic sport.When told in 1960 that he was too old to compete for a place in the Hungarian team, he challenged the entire team and defeated them all. In the sabre, he won individual gold in 1948, silver in 1952, and bronze in 1936, and a further bronze in the foil team event in 1952. He confirmed his reputation as the world's greatest sabreur with three individual titles at the World Championships (1935, 1951, 1955) and he competed on nine winning Hungarian sabre teams at the World Championships. In addition to his 1952 Olympic medal in team foil, he won the Hungarian national championship with the foil seven times. His wife Erna Bogathy is part of three generations of medal winners. Her father Albert Bogen (1882-1961) was part of the Austrian Sabre team that won silver in 1912 (behind Hungary), she won bronze (under the name Erna Bogen) in foil in 1932, and their son Pal Gerevich (born during the Olympics in 1948) was part of the silver winningHungarian Sabre team of '72 and '80. Gerevich  later coached at the Vasa Sports Club in Budapest.

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Teammates, Fencers Piller Gyorgy, won 2 golds, while Kabos Endre wins Gold and Bronze. Enekes Istvan wins boxing Gold and Gymnast Pelle Istvan wins 2 Golds. The Waterpolo Team begins Hungary's Olympic 7-time Championship legacy with their first Gold.