Throughout the week some updates … The mixed relay won the Hungarians’ fifth medal at the European Championships. Last Monday, Richárd Koleszár and Bereczki came second in the men’s relay, and third in the women’s relay with Noémi Guzi and Blanka Eszes.
In the mixed event, the Hungarian colors were represented by Rita Erdős and Mihály Koleszár, and both won the gold medal in the mixed doubles relay.
On Sunday morning, nine duos started the fight in the BOK Hall. In the ring fencing, the Hungarians finished in seventh place with 14 wins and 18 losses – Erdős finished with 5/11, Koleszár with 9/7 – and accumulated a thirty-point deficit against the leading Ukrainians and Czechs.
The horse riding took place in the middle of the afternoon in the sculpture park of the Puskás Aréna. After fencing, the ninth-placed Poles withdrew due to Natalia Dominiak’s knee pains, so the Hungarians started riding. Erdős’s horse broke out at barrier four, but the teasing came together for the second time, and then Koleszár pulled down barrier 7, adding a 14-second timeout, which resulted in 269 points out of the starting 300. Previously, during the warm-up, Erdős fell off her horse and was injured, but in the end she was able to undertake the continuation of the competition.
The home pair defeated the Finns and the Swiss on the pashto raised next to the horse track, and then lost to the Lithuanians, so with the two successes, they earned an extra four points in the bonus competition.
After that, the Hungarians completed the 2×100 meters with the best time, 1:58.56 minutes, in the swimming pool next to the Gerevich Aladár National Sports Hall, but even then they could only start the combined event from the eighth place, in which the relay members had to run 3×600 meters each, interrupted by two shooting sessions. They were 33 seconds behind the bronze medalist and 36 seconds behind the leading Italians. Erdős 3-6, then 2-5. she caught up to position, and at the change she was already third behind the Swiss and the Italians. Koleszár overcame his deficit in a matter of seconds, then ran with his Italian and Lithuanian opponents, who were catching up, and “exploded” first from the last shooting, when he reached the full main stand, he waved his two arms to encourage the audience even more, then he ran at a great pace and reached the finish line with a respectable lead , before the Italians and the Lithuanians. The Hungarians won the combined event with 11:56.66 minutes, 36 seconds better than the second best Ukrainians.
The day ended with a show accompanied by live music in the competition center set up in the sculpture park next to the Puskás Arena, Sára Tímár and her band, Ágnes Herczku and Nikola Parov participated, lamenting, mystical and martial songs were sung. The legend on which the quintet is based, the story of the military courier carrying out the mission, who rode a horse, fought with swords and pistols, swam across a river, and then ran to his destination, came to life.
Updating by Aggie Reiter
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