Hungarian Olympic breaststroke-champion Daniel Gyurta
promised after winning in London to give the family of deceased
competitor and friend Alexander Dale Oen a replica of his Gold medal.
One
Saturday Gyurta put action behind his words as he presented the family
of Dale Oen with a Gold medal. As the IOC do not allow the medals to be
replicated the medal was created especially for this event. The symbolic
gesture of the event being more important than the medal itself.
Hungarian American, Joe Balku, donates huge Christmas tree for Rockefeller Center, New York City, as his way of giving back to America for the opportunity to live in freedom and succeed.
Recent spectacular accomplishments
Endre Szemerédi
is an Hungarian-American mathematician, working in the field of
combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of
New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since
1986.
Szemerédi
has won numerous prizes in mathematics and science, including, most
notably, the Abel Prize in 2012. He has also made a number of key
discoveries in combinatorics and computer science, including Szemerédi's
theorem, the Szemerédi regularity lemma, the Erdős–Szemerédi theorem,
the Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem and the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem.
Dr Szemerédi was the honored guest at the Amerikaiak a Magyarokért Közhasznú Alapítvány’s July 4th celebration in Tiszafüred.
U.S. skier Ted Ligety,
of Hungarian ancestry, clinched his first world Super-G ski title
after Olympic champion and pre- race favorite Aksel Lund Svindal made a
mistake in the final turns of the race.
Susan (Zsuzsanna) Francia
won gold for the USA in the rowing eight at the 2012 Olympic
Games...Won gold and set a world record (5:54.17) in the heat in the
eight at the 2012 Samsung World Rowing Cup II...Won gold in the eight at
the 2011 World Rowing Championships...She was born in Szeged, Hungary.
Rebecca Soni (Szőnyi)
is an American competition swimmer of Hungarian ancestry and is a
breaststroke specialist and six-time Olympic medalist. She currently
holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke (short course) and
the 200-meter breaststroke (short and long course), and is the first
woman to swim the 200-meter breaststroke in under 2 minutes 20 seconds.
As a part of the American team, she also holds the world record in the
4×100-meter medley relay (short and long course). In total, she
currently holds five world records.
