Hungary at the 1908 Summer Olympics Hungary at the 1908 Summer Olympics Hungary competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England. Austria and Hungary had separate NOCs, therefore results at Olympic Games are kept separate despite the union of the two nations as Austria-Hungary at the time. The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games: The following is the list of dates, when Hungary won medals: Hungary's best athletics result was István Somodi's silver medal in the high jump. The Hungarian medley relay team took the bronze medal. Hungary dominated the sabre competitions, taking the top two individual medals and
Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics At the 1908 Summer Olympics, three motorboat racing events were contested. Various sources refer to the sport as "water motorsports", "motor boats", and "power boating". These Games were the only one to feature motorized sports; although it was featured in 1900, those events were deemed by the IOC in later years to be non-Olympic. All three events used the same distance, five laps around an 8 nautical mile course for a total of . In each of the events, multiple boats started but only one finished, due primarily to the gale that was