Hungary at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medal Name Sport Event Date
Gold Tímea Nagy Fencing Women 's épée 15 August
Gold Diána Igaly Shooting Women 's skeet 19 August
Gold István Majoros Wrestling Men 's Greco-Roman 55 kg 25 August
Gold Gábor Horváth Zoltán Kammerer Botond Storcz Ákos Vereckei Canoeing Men 's K-4 1000 m 27 August
Gold Zsuzsanna Vörös Modern pentathlon Women 's event 27 August
Gold Natasa Janics Canoeing Women 's K-1 500 m 28 August
Gold Katalin Kovács Natasa Janics Canoeing Women 's K-2 500 m 28 August
Gold Hungary men 's national water polo team Zoltán Szécsi Tamás Varga Norbert Madaras Ádám Steinmetz Tamás Kásás Attila Vári Gergely Kiss Tibor Benedek Rajmund Fodor István Gergely Barnabás Steinmetz Tamás Molnár Péter Biros Water polo Men 's tournament 29 August
Silver Zsolt Nemcsik Fencing Men 's sabre 14 August
Silver Dániel Gyurta Swimming Men 's 200 m breaststroke 18 August
Silver Eszter Krutzler Weightlifting Women 's 69 kg 19 August
Silver Gábor Boczkó Iván Kovács Krisztián Kulcsár Géza Imre Fencing Men 's team épée 22 August
Silver Zoltán Kővágó Athletics Men 's discus throw 23 August
Silver Kinga Bóta Katalin Kovács Szilvia Szabó Erzsébet Viski Canoeing Women 's K-4 500 m 27 August
Bronze László Cseh Swimming Men 's 400 m individual medley 14 August
Bronze Attila Vajda Canoeing Men 's C-1 1000 m 27 August
Bronze György Kolonics György Kozmann Canoeing Men 's C-2 1000 m 27 August
Hungary competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. Hungarian athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because of the Soviet boycott. The Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian: Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, MOB) sent a total of 209 athletes to the Games, 119 men and 90 women, to compete in 20 sports. Water polo and handball were the only team-based sports in which Hungary had its representation in these Olympic Games. There was only a single competitor in road cycling and mountain biking. The Hungarian team featured several Olympic medalists from Sydney, including the men's water polo team (led by Tibor Benedek), épée fencer Tímea Nagy, sprint kayakers Zoltán Kammerer, György Kolonics (who later died in 2008 due to heart failure), and Katalin Kovács, and breaststroke and medley swimmer Ágnes Kovács. Table tennis player Csilla Bátorfi became the first female Hungarian athlete to compete in five Olympic Games as one of the most sophisticated members of the team. Along with Kolonics and Benedek, six Hungarian athletes had made their fourth Olympic appearance, including fencer Iván Kovács and half-heavyweight judoka Antal Kovács, who was assigned by the committee to become the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Race walker Zoltán Czukor, aged 41, was the oldest member of the team, while backstroke swimmer Evelyn Verrasztó was the youngest at age 15. Hungary left Athens with a total of 17 Olympic medals, 8 golds, 6 silver, and 3 bronze, matching its overall tally with Sydney four years earlier. Almost a third of these medals were awarded to the athletes in sprint canoeing, three in fencing, and two in swimming. Skeet shooter Diána Igaly and modern pentathlete Zsuzsanna Vörös won Olympic gold medals for the first time in their respective sporting events by a female.