Ellen Gezina Maria van Langen is a Dutch former middle distance runner, who specialised in the 800 metres. A talented but injury-ridden athlete, she was the 1992 Olympic Champion for the women's 800 meters. She is now the director of the FBK Games.
Maria de Lurdes Mutola is a retired Mozambican female track and field who specialised in the 800 metres running event. She is only the fourth female track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games. She is a three-time world champion in this event and a one-time Olympic champion.
Ștefan Kovács was a Romanian football player and coach. Having won two European Cup titles, he is one of the most successful association football coaches in the history of the game. Various football magazines listed him on their list of best football coaches as in 2013 World Soccer put him on the 36th place, France Football ranked him at 43 in 2019, while FourFourTwo in 2023 placed him on the 62nd place.
Ecaterina Szabo is a former Romanian artistic gymnast who won 20 Olympic, world and continental medals.
Liliya Foatovna Nurutdinova is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the Soviet Union and the Unified Team.
Kovács or Kovacs, meaning blacksmith, is one of the most common Hungarian family names.
Emerich Jenei or Imre Jenei is a Romanian former football player and coach of Hungarian ethnicity. He is considered one of Romania's best managers, alongside Ştefan Kovács, Mircea Lucescu, and Anghel Iordănescu.
Judit Kovács is a retired female high jumper from Hungary. Her personal best jump was 1.94 metres, achieved in August 1992 in Budapest.
Péter Kovács is a former Hungarian international handball player and handball coach.
These are the official results of the women's 800 metres event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total of 36 participating athletes, with five qualifying heats.
Club Atletic Oradea (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) (Romanian pronunciation:[ˌklubaˈtletikoˈrade̯a]), commonly known as CA Oradea (Nagyváradi AC), or simply as CAO (NAC), is a Romanian football club based in Oradea, Bihor County, which competes in the Liga IV.
Boglárka Kapás is a Hungarian retired competitive swimmer. She is the world champion in 200 m butterfly and a bronze medallist at the Olympic Games in 800 m freestyle.
Dalma is a Romanian pop/jazz singer and occasional television actress of Hungarian descent. Dalma became well known in Romania after she became the winner of TVR 1's show "Faimoșii" in 2007, but mostly after she qualified in the Romanian national final of Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song Love Was Never Her Friend, composed by Romanian composer Marius Moga, and placed sixth in the big final. Even if the song did not get the first place, it received considerable airplay in Romania. Because she is popular in her country, Dalma received an offer from Walt Disney Pictures and provides the singing voice of Elsa in the Romanian dubbed version of Frozen, the singer of the main theme from the movie “Tinkerbell and Legend of the Neverland Beast”.
Ferar Cluj was a football club from Kolozsvár/Cluj that played both in the Hungarian and the Romanian Championship.
Beáta Bohus is a former Hungarian handball player and handball coach. Currently she is the head coach of the Hungarian women's national youth handball team.
Ana Fidelia Quirot Moré is a former track and field athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 metres but was also successful over 400 m. At 800 metres, she is a two-time World Champion and a two-time Olympic medallist. Her best time of 1:54.44 from 1989 still ranks her fifth on the world all-time list. She is regarded as one of the best female 800m runners of all time, and probably the best to not have an Olympic gold medal in the event.
Julianna Révész, is a Hungarian épée fencer. With Hungary she won a silver medal in the 2005 World Fencing Championships in Leipzig and a bronze medal in the 2013 European Fencing Championships in Zagreb. She is the co-founder of Knightsbridge Fencing Club along with Tamas Kovacs.
István Kovács is a Romanian football referee who primarily officiates in the Liga I. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2018, and a UEFA elite referee since 2019.
Zsófia Kovács is a Hungarian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2017 and 2023 European all-around silver medalist, the 2020 European champion on uneven bars, as well as the 2020 and 2022 European champion on vault.
Zója Székely is a Hungarian artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 European silver medalist on the uneven bars and bronze medalist with the team. She represented Hungary at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
