| Hungary at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | |
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| IPC code | HUN |
| NPC | Hungarian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Beijing | |
| Competitors | 16 in 6 sports |
| Medals Ranked 49th |
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| Summer Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
Hungary competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
| 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 |
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||
| Athlete | Event | First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Final/ Bronze medal contest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athlete | Event | First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final/ Bronze medal contest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandor Sas | 100kg | 195.0 | 7 |
| Csaba Szavai | +100kg | NMR | |
One Hungarian athlete competed in the following event in sailing: [1]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| Athlete | Class | Event | Heats | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| Janos Becsey | S7 | 50m freestyle | 31.99 | 8 Q | 31.46 | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 50m freestyle | 40.82 | 11 | did not advance | |||
| Athlete | Class | Event | Heats | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 200m freestyle | 3:56.25 | 14 | did not advance | |||
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | |||||
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]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | |||
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