Sprint canoeist Tamara Csipes and fencer Áron Szilágyi have been elected Hungary’s Athletes of the Year by the country’s sports journalists. The coach of the year title went to András Decsi of the fencing team.
The Hungarian government will continue to support sports infrastructure projects in Transylvania, including Szekler Land, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Thursday after talks with Károly Eduárd Novák, Romania’s minister of sports.
Grandmaster Gábor Kállai, a Hungarian chess player, coach and former federal captain, who died at the age of sixty-two.
On Wednesday, Hungarian swimmer Liliána Szilágyi shared with the world that her father had been abused and humiliated her physically, mentally and sexually for decades.
The Hungarian Olympic Committee’s (MOB) extraordinary general assembly decided to withdraw support from Krisztián Kulcsár, its president, in a vote on Thursday.
A Year’s End rally to be held on the Hungaroring Formula One track near Budapest will feature over 200 cars from six countries racing over 56 kms on December 28-29 , the organisers said.
Stanislav Cherchesov of Russia has become manager of Hungary’s defending soccer champion Ferencváros, the club announced on Monday. Cherchesov, 58, takes over managing the team after a five-year spell at the helm of Russia’s national eleven, culminating in a quarter-final in the 2018 World Cup tournament.
The Budapest Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged a 32-year-old Romanian man with committing sexual assault in Budapest, the prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
Budapest Handball Arena, Hungary’s biggest sports hall, was inaugurated in Budapest on Thursday. The facility will be one of three Hungarian venues of the European men’s handball championship to be held in Hungary and Slovakia from January 13 to 30.
Péter Stöger, the Austrian manager of Hungarian first-division club Ferencváros, is stepping down after just over six months with the team, the club announced on Monday.
