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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 Winter Games]
• [2016, Rio de Janeiro]

Hungarian Olympic Trivia:

• Hungary ranks 8th in the word in medals!
• Hungary's Ferenc Kemeny was a founding member of the International Olympic Committee. Budapest was promised the Olympic Games of 1920. After the games were switched to Antwerp after WWI and the punitive Treaty of Trianon, which cost Hungary 2/3 of her territory and stranded millions of Hungarians in successor states as borders were arbitrarily redrawn around them, Hungary wasn't even invited.
• Hungary ranks first in medals in Modern Pentathlon and Water Polo (the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF), recognized by FINA, the international governing body for the Olympic aquatic sports as its official Hall of Fame, announced that Water Polo TEAM HUNGARY became the first team in the history of the Hall to be recognized as an Honoree [read more])
• Hungary ranks second in medals in soccer
• Hungary ranks third in in medals in fencing and canoe/kayak
• Hungary has won more Olympic medals than any other nation that has never hosted the Games

[See Hungary at the Olympics on Wikipedia]