Sarolta Kriszt
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| Full name | Sarolta Maria Kriszt | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 October 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Heptathlon: 5956 (Budapest, 2024) 400m: 52.56 (Budapest, 2024) NU20R 400mH: 57.82 (Budapest, 2023) NU18R | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarolta Maria Kriszt (born 28 October 2006) is a Hungarian heptathlete. she was s silver medalist in the heptathlon at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships. In 2024, she became Hungarian national champion in the 400 metres at the Hungarian Athletics Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]She is a member of MATE-GEAC athletics club where she is coached by Katalin Körmendy.[2] In July 2022, Kriszt won silver in the heptathlon at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel finishing behind Croatian Jana Kosčak, at the age of 16 years-old.[3][4]
2023
[edit]In February 2023 in Budapest, she became the Hungarian national youth record holder in the indoor pentathlon and the 60 metres hurdles, running 8.48 seconds and achieving a tally of 4228 points to become junior national pentathlon champion.[5] She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia.[6] She was named in the Hungarian relay pool for the 4 x 400 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[7]
2024
[edit]She was one of three recipients selected for Szentkirályi Talent Program funding in June 2024.[8] That month, at the age of 17 years-old she was the youngest member of the Hungarian team selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy.[9] She ran in the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the Championships.[10] Later that same month she won the 400 metres at the Hungarian Athletics Championships in Budapest.[11] She competed in the heptathlon for Hungary at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024 but crashed-out in the first event, the 100 metres hurdles.[12]
2025
[edit]She finished in tenth place overall in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, on 1 June 2025.[13]
Personal life
[edit]She is from Gödöllő in Pest County, Budapest.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sarolta Kriszt". World Athletics. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Új kihívások előtt az elmúlt év legjobb leányversenyzői – VIDEÓ". utanpotlassport.hu (in Hungarian). 23 January 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Athletics: Sarolta Kriszt won silver in the heptathlon at the European Youth Championships!". godolloihirek.hu (in Hungarian). 5 July 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Gergő Takács wins bronze medal at the European Youth Athletics Championships". Origo.hu. July 7, 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Athletics: Kriszt Saci is the new national youth record holder in the pentathlon and the 60-meter hurdles!". godolloihirek.hu (in Hungarian). 12 Feb 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Kriszt Sarolta aranyérmes hétpróbában a negyedik napon Mariborban". utanpotlassport.hu (in Hungarian). 27 July 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Record-breaking 63 athletes will represent Hungary at the World Championships". World Athletics. 8 August 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "A PUBLIC VOTE DECIDED THE FINAL PLACEMENTS". onbrands.hu. 16 September 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Több mint egy tucat magyar fiatallal indul az Eb". utanpotlassport.hu (in Hungarian). 6 June 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Hungarian Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Three things to watch on day two in Lima". World Athletics. 27 August 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ "Hypo-Meeting". World Athletics. 1 June 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ^ "Athletics: Kriszt Saci achieved European level in two events in Nyíregyháza". godolloihirek.hu. 24 Jan 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
