Hungary at the Olympics
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Hungarian athletes have won a total of 530 medals at the Summer Games and 10 medals at the Winter Games, with fencing being the top medal-producing sport. Hungary is ranked 8th in Summer Games medals and 13th in total medals for both Summer and Winter Games. Hungary has won more Olympic medals than any other existing nation never to have hosted the Games. After overtaking Finland at the 2020 Olympic Games, it is now the country with the highest number of gold medals won at Summer Olympics per capita (not counting microstates with less than 1 million inhabitants). At the 1956 and 1980 Winter Olympics, all participating Hungarian athletes won medals.
The National Olympic Committee for Hungary is the Hungarian Olympic Committee, and was created and recognized in 1895.
Medal tables
Medals by Olympic Games
Medals by sport
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Youth Games medal tables
Medals by sport
Athletes with most medals
The Hungarian athletes who won the most medals in the history of the Olympic Games are the fencer Aladár Gerevich and the gymnast Ágnes Keleti.
Athletes with most appearances
Notes: athletes in bold are still active.
Flagbearers
Summary by sport
Summer Olympic Sports
- Updated after 2024 Summer Olympics
Athletics
Hungary first competed in athletics at the inaugural 1896 Games, with 3 athletes competing in 5 events and winning a silver and two bronze medals. The nation's first gold medal in the sport came in 1900, with Rudolf Bauer's victory in the discus throw.
Basketball
- Hungary men's national basketball team
- Hungary women's national basketball team
Boxing
Canoeing
Fencing
Hungary has won the third-most gold medals and third-most total medals in fencing, in each case behind Italy and France. Hungary has historically been most successful in the sabre events. Hungary's first fencing appearance was in 1900, with 7 fencers including sabreurs who finished 4th and 5th. Hungary has dominated the men's individual sabre, winning half of the gold medals (14 of 28), including a string of 9 consecutive victories from 1924 to 1964 (with an 11-Games podium streak extending further to 1972). Hungary had also won in 1908 and 1912; the streaks might have been 12 and 15 if the nation had not been excluded from the Games in 1920 due to its role in World War I.
Gymnastics
Hungary sent two gymnasts to the first Games in 1896; they did not medal.
Handball
- Hungary men's national handball team
- Hungary women's national handball team
Modern pentathlon
Shooting
Swimming
Hungary first competed in swimming at the inaugural 1896 Games, with one swimmer (Alfréd Hajós) winning gold medals in both of the events he entered. Hungary also had one swimmer in 1900 taking a medal in every event he entered (Zoltán Halmay, with 2 silvers and a bronze). Hungary has won the fourth-most gold medals of any nation in swimming (28) and sixth-most total medals (73).
Volleyball
- Hungary men's national volleyball team
- Hungary women's national volleyball team
Water polo
- Hungary men's national water polo team
- Hungary women's national water polo team
Weightlifting
Hungary first competed in weightlifting at the inaugural 1896 Games, with one lifter competing in one event.
Wrestling
Hungary first competed in wrestling at the inaugural 1896 Games, with one wrestler competing in the open weight class event.
Tennis
Hungary first competed in tennis at the inaugural 1896 Games, with one player in the men's singles earning a bronze medal. It remains (through the 2016 Games) the only tennis medal won by Hungary.
Winter Olympic Sports
- Updated after 2022 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-country skiing
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Ice hockey
- Hungary men's national ice hockey team
Nordic combined
Short track speed skating
Ski jumping
- 1 Athletes did not start at the Games.