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Canadian swimming hopeful Pierse and her Hungarian coach Jozsef Nagy
Eva Hegyi
This has been an amazing year for the Edmonton-trained, Vancouver-based breaststroke champion Annamay Pierse. In March, she broke Australian star Liesel Jones’ world short-course mark in the 200-metre breaststroke at the Canadian spring nationals in Toronto.
17 November 2009
Canadian to coach Budapest hockey team
By: MTI
2009-08-19 09:19
Glen Williamson of Canada has become the new head coach of the Hungarian first-division ice hockey team of Vasas Budapest Stars, the club reported on its website on Tuesday.
Williamson, who signed a one-year contract with the club, earlier worked for the NHL team of Winnipeg Jets as assistant coach and for the Los Angeles Kings, another NHL team, as talent scout.
Williamson was the national coach of the Japanese men's team in 2001-2002, and head coach of the Berlin Polar Bears in Berlin and the Lugano Panthers in Switzerland.
Solid Hungarian Canadian connection possible at 2010 Winter Olympics
Randy Ray
The Janyk family of Whistler, B.C. promises to give the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia a strong Hungarian Canadian connection.
Their story spans three generations dating back to the 1930s and 1940s in Hungary.
Britt and Michael, Janyk, the 27 and 25-year-old children of Bill and Andree Janyk of Whistler, B.C., are being touted as potential members of the Canadian Olympic alpine ski team.
Agnes Laing - Pioneering in business and sports
by Nausikaa Muresan
Like so many Hungarians fleeing after the 1956 Revolution, Agnes Laing escaped by foot across the border with Austria. It took four days to reach the border. For security reasons the family split: Agnes’s father and her sister left together and Agnes left with her mother. At six and a half she was well prepared for the trip: she knew that, if stopped by the Russians she had to pretend to be going to the country to recuperate after chickenpox.
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Gabor Csepregi
La nuit. L’été 1968. L’eau noire. Un navire de surveillance en quête d’éventuels fugitifs. Un homme en maillot de bain, chaussures autour du cou, s’apprête à fuir la Yougoslavie encore communiste et à nager vers l’Italie et le port de Trieste. La scène a toutes les allures d’un film à la James Bond. Pourtant, ce n’est ni Daniel Craig ni Sean Connery qui franchit le bras de mer. Il s’agit plutôt de Gabor Csepregi ...
For a short biography of Gabor Csepregi please click here.
Pour un bref curriculum vitae de Gabor Csepregi cliquez ici.
Valerie Gyenge
From humble beginnings in Hungary to the top of the podium at the Olympic Games, Valerie Gyenge's adventure really began when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest...
TORONTO - She keeps her Olympic gold medal in the blue velvet box it came in. Its hinges were damaged during a visit to her grandson's grade school for show and tell..
Olympic champion Valerie Gyenge's books are work in progress
During the last few years she has been busy not only with photography, which she has enjoyed doing most of her life, but has also been writing mostly about her own life and the life of people who influenced her. Read more...
23 February 2010
Legendary Swim Coach Dr. Jeno “Doc” Tihanyi passed away
Ottawa, ON - The swimming community mourns the loss of world renowned swimming coach Dr. Jeno “Doc” Tihanyi.
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