Hungary at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Hungary at the
2008 Summer Paralympics
Hungary at the; 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	HUN
NPC	Hungarian Paralympic Committee
Website	www.hparalimpia.hu
in Beijing
Competitors	16 in 6 sports
Medals; Ranked 49th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 5 Total 6
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Hungary competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Tamás Sors	Swimming	Men's 100m butterfly S9
Bronze	Tamás Sors	Swimming	Men's 400m freestyle S9
Bronze	Tamás Sors	Swimming	Men's 100m freestyle S9
Bronze	Gitta Raczko	Swimming	Women's 100m breaststroke SB5
Bronze	Zsolt Vereczkei	Swimming	Men's 50m backstroke S5
Bronze	Pál Szekeres	Wheelchair Fencing	Men's Individual Foil B

Sports

Boccia

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opponent	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dezso Beres	Mixed individual BC4	Lau W Y V (HKG)	L 2-3	3	did not advance
		Dueso (ESP)	L 6-7
		Kratina (CZE)	W 9-1
Jozsef Gyurkota		F Pereira (POR)	L 0-5	4	did not advance
		Pinto (BRA)	L 1-4
		Valentim (POR)	L 2-7
Dezso Beres Jozsef Gyurkota	Pairs BC4	Dueso (ESP) / Desamparados Baixauli (ESP)	L 4-6	4	did not advance
		Pinto (BRA) / E Santos (BRA)	L 2-6
		Durkovic (SVK) / Streharsky (SVK)	L 4-5

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	First Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Gabor Papp	Men's +100kg	Parasyuk (RUS) W 1011–0000	Papachristos (GRE) W 1001-0001	Wang S (CHN) L 0111-1110	—		Taurines (FRA) L 0000-1000
Gabor Vincze	Men's 81kg	Bye	Jonard (FRA) L 0001-1100	—	Mirhassan Nattaj (IRI) L 0000-0002	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	First Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final/ Bronze medal contest
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Nikolett Szabo	Women's 70kg	Vermeulen (NED) L 0001–0011	—		Mouton (USA) W 1000-0000	Savostyanova (RUS) L 0000-1000

Powerlifting

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Sandor Sas	100kg	195.0	7
Csaba Szavai	+100kg	NMR

Sailing

One Hungarian athlete competed in the following event in sailing:[1]

Single-Person Keelboat - 2.4mR

Shooting

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Gyula Gurisatti	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	551	25	did not advance
	Mixed 25m pistol SH1	551	19	did not advance
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	510	21	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Janos Becsey	S7	50m freestyle	31.99	8 Q	31.46	7
	S7	100m freestyle	1:09.78	8 Q	1:09.20	8
	SB7	100m breaststroke	1:41.40	12	did not advance
	SM7	200m individual medley	2:58.31	8 Q	DSQ
Zoltan Bencsura	S6	50m butterfly	36.95	9	did not advance
Ferenc Csuri	S8	50m freestyle	29.13	10	did not advance
		100m freestyle	1:03.55	11	did not advance
		100m butterfly	1:07.96	8 Q	1:08.17	7
	SM8	200m individual medley	2:40.46	10	did not advance
Ervin Kovacs	S5	50m backstroke	39.82	3 Q	40.61	4
	S5	50m butterfly	39.97	4 Q	39.33	4
	SB4	100m breaststroke	1:45.01	4 Q	1:44.12	4
	SM5	200m individual medley	3:14.70	4 Q	3:12.02	4
Tamás Sors	S9	50m freestyle	26.73	7 Q	26.21	5
		100m freestyle	57.59	4 Q	56.80
		400m freestyle	4:26.21	4 Q	4:20.26
		100m butterfly	59.38	1 Q	59.34
	SM9	200m individual medley	2:22.98	3 Q	2:21.42	4
Zsolt Vereczkei	S5	50m backstroke	40.50	4 Q	38.78
Zsolt Vereczkei	S5	50m freestyle	40.82	11	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Dorottya Baka	S7	100m backstroke	1:40.14	9	did not advance
Katalin Engelhardt	S5	50m freestyle	44.89	7 Q	45.78	8
		100m freestyle	1:42.71	9	did not advance
		200m freestyle	3:32.37	9	did not advance
	SB4	100m breaststroke	2:10.62	7 Q	2:09.72	7
Fanni Illes	S6	100m backstroke	1:44.37	11	did not advance
	S6	400m freestyle	6:43.09	9	did not advance
	SB5	100m breaststroke	2:06.29	8 Q	2:07.52	8
	SM6	200m individual medley	3:58.59	13	did not advance
Gitta Raczko	S7	50m butterfly	44.81	9	did not advance
	SB5	100m breaststroke	1:56.88	5 Q	1:54.49
	SM7	200m individual medley	3:28.30	6 Q	3:30.36	8
Diana Zambo	S5	50m backstroke	51.19	4 Q	52.04	6
Diana Zambo	S5	200m freestyle	3:56.25	14	did not advance

Table tennis

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Andras Csonka	Men's singles C8	Chen G (CHN) L 0-3	Skrzynecki (POL) W 3-1	Vergeylen (BEL) W 3-0	2	did not advance
Dezso Berecki	Men's singles C9-10	Agunbiade (NGR) L 1–3	Karabec (CZE) W 3–1	—	1 Q	Last (NED) L 0–3	did not advance
Gyula Zborai	Men's singles C9-10	Ge Y (CHN) L 0-3	Rousseau (FRA) L 2-3	—	3	did not advance
Dezso Berecki Gyula Zborai	Men's team C9-10	—				France (FRA) L 1-3	did not advance

Wheelchair fencing

Pál Szekeres won his last competitive medal at his fifth and final consecutive Paralympics: he won a bronze medal in the men's foil.[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition	Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Gabor Horvath	Men's épée A	Tian (CHN)	L 0–5	6	did not advance
		Wong T T (HKG)	L 4-5
		Betti (ITA)	L 0-5
		Stanczuk (POL)	L 3-5
		Alqallaf (KUW)	L 1-5
	Men's foil A	Zhang L (CHN)	L 1-5	4 Q	Maillard (FRA) L 3-15	did not advance
		Betti (ITA)	L 0-5
		Alqallaf (KUW)	L 4-5
		Granell (ESP)	W 5-4
		Saengsawang (THA)	W 5-1
		Andree (GER)	L 5-1
Gyula Mato	Men's foil A	Pender (POL)	L 1-5	4 Q	Chan W K (HKG) L 11-15	did not advance
		Pellegrini (ITA)	L 1-5
		Maillard (FRA)	L 2-5
		Alhaddad (KUW)	W 5-1
		Andreev (RUS)	W 5-4
	Men's sabre A	Ye R (CHN)	L 0-5	3 Q	Stanczuk (POL) L 12-15	did not advance
		Stanczuk (POL)	W 5-2
		Citerne (FRA)	L 2-5
		Andreev (RUS)	W 5-3
		Alexakis (GRE)	W 5-2
Pál Szekeres	Men's foil B	Hu D (CHN)	L 2-5	3 Q	Hisakawa (JPN) W 15-6	Hui C H (HKG) W 15-11	Hu D (CHN) L 4-15	Komar (UKR) W 15-10
		Hui C H (HKG)	L 3-5
		Komar (UKR)	W 5-1
		Moreno (USA)	W 5-1
		Kim G H (KOR)	W 5-1
	Men's sabre B	Francois (FRA)	L 3-5	3 Q	Hui C H (HKG) L 12-15	did not advance
		Shenkevych (UKR)	L 4-5
		Fawcett (GBR)	W 5-2
		Arnau (ESP)	L 3-5
		Mainville (CAN)	W 5-1

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition	Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Gyongyi Dani	Women's épée B	Jana (THA)	L 0-5	4 Q	—	Yao F (CHN) L 12-15	did not advance
		Chan Y C (HKG)	L 4-5
		Ye H (CHN)	L 3-5
		Lukianenko (UKR)	W 5-2
		Hassen Bey (ESP)	W 5-1
	Women's foil B	Yao F (CHN)	L 1-5	2 Q	—	Jana (THA) L 8-15	did not advance
		Lukianenko (UKR)	W 5-3
		Magnat (FRA)	W 5-3
		Hassen Bey (ESP)	W 5-2
		Vettraino (ITA)	W 5-3
Veronika Juhasz	Women's épée A	Yu C Y (HKG)	L 3–5	2 Q	—	Fan P S (HKG) L 12-15	did not advance
		Witos-Eze (POL)	W 5-3
		Halkina (BLR)	W 5-3
		Zhang W (CHN)	W 5-4
		Poignet (FRA)	W 5-4
	Women's foil A	Zhang C (CHN)	L 0-5	6	did not advance
		Yu C Y (HKG)	L 1-5
		Trigilia (ITA)	L 3-5
		Picot (FRA)	L 3-5
		Halkina (BLR)	L 2-5
Zsuzsanna Krajnyak	Women's épée A	Zhang C (CHN)	L 3-5	3 Q	—	Gorlina (UKR) W 15-5	Zhang C (CHN) L 10-15	Fan P S (HKG) L 14-15	4
		Gorlina (UKR)	L 3-5
		Fan P S (HKG)	W 5-4
		Trigilia (ITA)	W 5-2
		Picot (FRA)	W 5-0
	Women's foil A	Poignet (FRA)	L 3-5	3 Q	—	Yu C Y (HKG) L 1-15	did not advance
		Fan P S (HKG)	W 5-1
		Zhang W (CHN)	L 4-5
		Gorlina (UKR)	L 2-5
		Witos-Eze (POL)	W 5-0
Judit Palfi	Women's épée B	Vasilyeva (RUS)	L 3-5	5 Q	Vettraino (ITA) W 15-9	Jana (THA) L 4-15	did not advance
		Yao F (CHN)	L 3-5
		Magnat (FRA)	L 4-5
		Vettraino (ITA)	L 1-5
		Demello (USA)	W 5-3
	Women's foil B	Chan Y C (HKG)	L 3-5	4 Q	—	Chan Y C (HKG) L 4-15	did not advance
		Ye H (CHN)	L 3-5
		Jana (THA)	L 1-5
		Vasilyeva (RUS)	W 5-4
		Demello (USA)	W 5-0

Wheelchair tennis

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Laszlo Farkas	Men's singles	Scheffers (NED) L 3-6, 4-6	did not advance
Csaba Prohaszka	Men's singles	Tur (ESP) L 1-6, 1-6	did not advance
Laszlo Farkas Csaba Prohaszka	Men's doubles	—	Illobre (ESP) / Tur (ESP) L 2-6, 2-6	did not advance

External links

References

"National Line Up For 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition" Archived December 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, International Association for Disabled Sailing, July 16, 2008
"Hungarian Paralympic athlete Pál Szekeres's goal is to win gold" Archived 2008-09-06 at the Wayback Machine, Xinhua, September 3, 2008

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[1] "National Line Up For 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition" Archived December 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, International Association for Disabled Sailing, July 16, 2008

[2] "Hungarian Paralympic athlete Pál Szekeres's goal is to win gold" Archived 2008-09-06 at the Wayback Machine, Xinhua, September 3, 2008

Nations at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic Egypt Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Libya Madagascar Mali Mauritius Namibia Morocco Nigeria Niger Rwanda Senegal South Africa Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
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Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Tonga Vanuatu

Hungary at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Medalists

Sports

Boccia

Judo

Men

Women

Powerlifting

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men

Women

Table tennis

Wheelchair fencing

Men

Women

Wheelchair tennis

See also

External links

References