The Maccabi Pan American Games were held prior to the 2019 Maccabi Europe Games, where the Hungarian team of Maccabi VAC participated as a European country as well as Maccabi GB.
It is important to note that this is the first time that a Hungarian delegation participated in the Maccabi PAN AM Games. The delegation consisted of the Maccabi VAC water polo team, two triathlon riders and a golf player.
The Hungarian water polo team won a gold medal. Triathlon competitor Péter Hajdú won two silver and one bronze medal at the event. The Hungarian team of Maccabi VAC finished 13th in the ranking of the event of the top European countries!
Maccabi VAC Hungary has never participated in such a big delegation in the Maccabiah as the 2017 Maccabi Games. 120 people including 100 athletes joined the team to experience the spirit of the 20th Maccabiah, where 10 000 athletes from 80 countries competed in 40 different sports. Ádám Jusztin, the president of Maccabi VAC Hungary made an important statement: The Hungarian Team already won more medals on the first week of the Games than at the entire Maccabiah in 2013.
Outstanding Hungarian results:
Anita Schrödl, junior sabre: silver
Regina Binet, female foil: bronze
Róbert Gátai, male foil: silver
Martin Singer, male sabre: bronze
The male foil and sabre team won bronze too!
The Hungarian taekwondo team became the most successful foreign team at the Maccabiah!
Dániel Murinai, 87 kg: gold
Ádám Gulyás, 87 kg: silver
Norbert Rizmayer, 58 kg: bronze
Dániel Békési, 4×200-as freestyle: bronze
János Becsey two-time Paralympian, four-time Paralympian world champion won bronze in 50m butterfly and 50m breaststroke.
Female waterpolo team: silver
Male waterpolo team: silver
Zsuzsi Kunos, karate kumite female: gold
Laura Sterck, karate open: gold
Bálint Kroinstein, karate: silver
Elvira Kádár and S. Ernlib (ISR) female table tennis, doubles: bronze
Szilvia Bakó table tennis junior individual: silver
Fanni Perjés, 800 m track and field: bronze
András Lőwy, 10 km road race: bronze
Zsófi Boros, triathlon: silver
Bridge team: silver
Congratulations to all the athletes on the amazing results and outstanding sport performance!
74 athletes represented Hungary. Total medals: 4 gold, 5 silver and 11 bronze
Karate:
Individual: 2 gold
Wrestling: 1 gold
Gymnastics:
Individual: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
Fencing: 1 silver, 1 bronze
Paralympic swimming– 1 silver, 1 bronze
Athletics: 1 silver
Triathlon: 1 silver
Taekwondo: 3 bronze
Waterpolo men: 1 bronze
Waterpolo female: 1 bronze
Swimming: 1 bronze
Horse riding: 2 bronze
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Golf
Squash
Futsal junior
30 athletes represented Hungary. Total medals: 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze.
Tennis:
Péter Kőhalmi: silver
Female gymnastics:
Orsolya Nagy, jumping: silver, uneven bars: bronze
Karate:
Junior female: Hanna Keresztúri: gold
Sword play:
Laura Kovács: gold
Female team: (Laura Kovács, Zsófia Luczáti, Petra Pálffy): gold
Rapid chess:
Judit Polgár: bronze
Tennis:
Doubles: silver
Gymnastics:
Female individual: 1 silver, 1 bronze
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Half marathon
Football a-side
22 athletes represented Hungary.
Karate:
Zoltán Orbán: gold
Ádám S. Kovács: gold
Márton Vajda: silver
Péter Hidvégi: bronze
team: silver
Female gymnastics:
Total medals: individual 2 bronze and team 1 bronze.
Ildikó Farkas, adult jumping: silver
junior team: bronze
29 athletes represented Hungary.
Female gymnastics:
Réka Vígh, talaj: silver
Beáta Murai, beam: silver
Junior female gymnastics:
Írisz Pap, jumping: bronze
Georgina Farkas, beam: silver
Szilvia Kiss, talaj: bronze
team: bronze
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Basketball, men: 6. place
Football a-side
Swimming: István Kővári: 8 gold, 1 silver
Individual sword play: Róbert Mwasaru: gold
Team sword play: Róbert Mwasaru, Gábor Radó, Tamás Doffek: bronze
Karate:
Kata team: László Zallel, Zoltán Orbán, Attila Színák: gold
Kumite Csapat: László Zallel, Zoltán Orbán, Attila Színák, Ádám S. Kovács, Gábor Táncos, Tamás Zalai: silver
Individual karate, Kata trainer: Zoltán Orbán: silver
Individual karate, Kumite: László Zallel: silver
Individual and open karate: Attila Szinák: 1 silver, 2 bronze
Total individual medals: 1 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze
Total team medals: 1 silver
Female Basketball Team:
Players: Ágnes Sommer, Anikó Rausch, Juli Hermann, Szilvia Rónaszéki, Szilvia Szűcs, Gabriella Gonda, Ágnes Gonda, Judit Vas, Tímea Kövesi, Eszter Szörcsei, Katalin Urai, Melinda Loszman.
Trainers: György Szalai and Katalin Meze: silver
Gymnastics:
Junior: Bea Murai: bronze
72 athletes represented Hungary.
Karate: 2 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze
Basketball, man: 8. place
Karate:
individual: 1 gold, 2 silver
team: 1 bronze
The 15th Maccabi European Games took place from July 29 to August 7, 2019. In these 10 days, the largest multisport event of all time was celebrated in Budapest, with nearly 3,000 people arriving from 42 countries. The Hungarian delegation had the largest team Maccabi history with 250 people.
Athletes from the delegation, organized by Maccabi VAC, collected a total of 49 gold, 28 silver and 23 bronze medals.
With a hundred medals, Hungary became the most successful European nation, surpassing the delegations of more populous countries such as Germany or Great Britain.
At the 2015 European Maccabi Games, Hungary achieved 8th place in the national list with 19 medals won – 7 gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze.
GOLD MEDAL:
Female sword custom: Nóra Harm
Men’s Sword Custom: Singer Martin
Dueling junior: Ádám Lóránd
Dagger custom: Frühauf Benjamin
Dagger Individual Junior: Frühauf Benjamin
Triathlon women: Zsófia Boros
Triathlon Man: Bene Marci
Silver medal:
Female sword custom: Judit Gárdos
Sword Team: Nóra Garam – Judit Gárdos – Singer Martin
Dueling junior: Frühauf Benjamin
Women’s Compound: Hora Nóra
Dagger junior solo: Ádám Lóránd
Men’s Water Polo:
Trainer: György Kenéz – Tamás Lonker
Gergő Bánhegyi, Dávid Beck, Tamás Grünberger, Kristóf Karika, Zoltán Krémer, Tamás Mester, Dávid Nagy, Gergely Nagy, Péter Nagy, Gábor Rajna, Róbert Sternthal, Bence Szabó, Dávid Udvardi
Doubles bridge: András Fogaras – András Kovács
Bridge team: András Fogaras – Péter Gál – István Gerő – András Kovács, (Katalin Vass)
Bronze Medal:
Dueling team: Singer Martin – Lóránd Ádám – Frühauf Benjámin
Women’s Doubles Individual: Garam Nóra
Junior Futsal:
Trainer: Gábor Tamás
András Bajnai, Noé Halmai, István Horváth, Márton Katona, Dávid Károly, Ádám Légrádi, Jakab Merkely, Miklós Messinger, Dénes Paulovits, Bruno Seres
Doubles bridge: Péter Gál – István Gerő
Our 45 athletes represented our country.
Tennis:
Doubles: Péter Kőhalmi – Kálmán Ferenfalvi: gold
Doubles: Róbert Fodor – Péter Temes: bronze
Individual: Péter Kőhalmi: silver
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Football
Shooting
Bridge
Golf
Fencing
21 athletes represented in Hungary.
Karate:
Ádám S. Kovács in his weight class (70 kg) bronze, open category gold.
Tennis:
Kálmán Ferenczfalvi individual bronze in the age group 45-55
in pairs Kálmán Ferenczfalvi – József Horváth, aged 35-55: bronze.
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Dueling: Péter Barta: 5th place
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squash
Table tennis
19 athletes represented Hungary. We got 4. place in the rank of countries.
Karate: 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Football a-side
Tennis
28 sportsmen represented Hungary. Total medals: 4 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze.
Basketball men: 1 bronze
Karate: 4 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze
Golf: 2 bronze
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Bridge
Table tennis
Karate: 2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze
Basketball: 1 gold
Other sports where our athletes got rewarded:
Bridge
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