Emese Szasz
At the 2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Full name	Emese Judit Szasz
Born	( 1982-09-07 ) 7 September 1982 (age 41) Budapest , Hungary
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2  in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country	Hungary
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	epee
Hand	left-handed
Club	Vasas SC (2009- ) Bp. Honved ( -2009)
Head coach	Gy?z? Kulcsar
FIE  ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's epee Representing   Hungary Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual World Championships 2005 Leipzig Team 2010 Paris Individual 2006 Turin Individual 2013 Budapest Individual European Championships 2013 Zagreb Individual 2013 Zagreb Team 2017 Tbilisi Individual

Emese Szasz-Kovacs ( pronounced [??m??? ?saːs] ; born 7 September 1982) is a Hungarian left-handed epee fencer , three-time Olympian , and 2016 individual Olympic champion. ^[1]

Career [ edit ]

Szasz's first sport was swimming, but she grew tired of it. She did not think she would succeed in a ball game , being left-handed, so she took on fencing. Her first coaches were Gyorgy Felletar and Bela Kopetka. She joined the junior national Hungarian team, with which she won a gold medal at the 1998 Junior World Championships in Valencia and a silver medal at the 1999 edition in Keszthely.

She began the 2013?14 season by winning gold in the 2013 World Combat Games in Saint-Petersburg , defeating in the final world champion Julia Beljajeva . ^[2]

Medal Record [ edit ]

Olympic Games [ edit ]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	Individual Women's Epee	1st [3]

World Championship [ edit ]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2005	Leipzig , Germany	Team Women's Epee	2nd [4]
2006	Turin , Italy	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [5]
2010	Paris , France	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [6]
2013	Budapest , Hungary	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [7]

European Championship [ edit ]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2007	Ghent , Belgium	Team Women's Epee	2nd [8]
2013	Zagreb , Croatia	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [9]
2013	Zagreb , Croatia	Team Women's Epee	3rd [10]
2015	Montreux , Switzerland	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [11]
2016	Toru? , Poland	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [12]
2017	Tbilisi , Georgia	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [13]

Grand Prix [ edit ]

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/12/2006	Barcelona , Spain	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [14]
06/16/2006	Havana , Cuba	Individual Women's Epee	1st [15]
01/19/2007	Budapest , Hungary	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [16]
02/09/2007	Rome , Italy	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [17]
01/18/2008	Budapest , Hungary	Individual Women's Epee	1st [18]
01/16/2009	Budapest , Hungary	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [19]
02/06/2009	Rome , Italy	Individual Women's Epee	1st [20]
01/23/2010	Doha , Qatar	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [21]
02/19/2010	Saint-Maur-des-Fosses , France	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [22]
05/28/2010	Montreal , Canada	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [23]
06/11/2011	Nanjing , China	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [24]
02/25/2012	Budapest , Hungary	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [25]
05/23/2013	Havana , Cuba	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [26]
05/22/2014	Havana , Cuba	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [27]
12/06/2014	Doha , Qatar	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [28]
05/26/2017	Bogota , Colombia	Individual Women's Epee	1st [29]
05/25/2018	Cali , Colombia	Individual Women's Epee	1st [30]

World Cup [ edit ]

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/01/2004	Modling , Austria	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [31]
05/14/2004	Legnano , Italy	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [32]
03/03/2007	Tauberbischofsheim , Germany	Individual Women's Epee	1st [33]
05/26/2007	Sydney , Australia	Individual Women's Epee	1st [34]
01/26/2008	Prague , Czech Republic	Individual Women's Epee	1st [35]
02/16/2008	Barcelona , Spain	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [36]
03/07/2009	Tauberbischofsheim , Germany	Individual Women's Epee	1st [37]
03/27/2010	Luxembourg	Individual Women's Epee	1st [38]
06/24/2011	Sydney , Australia	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [39]
03/01/2013	Saint-Maur-des-Fosses , France	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [40]
02/07/2014	Leipzig , Germany	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [41]
03/07/2014	Barcelona , Spain	Individual Women's Epee	1st [42]
05/16/2014	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	Individual Women's Epee	2nd [43]
11/14/2014	Xuzhou , China	Individual Women's Epee	1st [44]
10/24/2014	Legnano , Italy	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [45]
10/23/2015	Legnano , Italy	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [46]
01/20/2017	Barcelona , Spain	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [47]
10/20/2017	Tallinn , Estonia	Individual Women's Epee	3rd [48]

Awards [ edit ]

• Hungarian Fencer of the Year (5): 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Honorary Citizen of Zuglo (2016)

Orders and special awards

• Order of Merit of Hungary ? Officer's Cross (2016)

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Emese Szasz .

• Emese Szasz at the European Fencing Confederation at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-10-19)
• Emese Kovacs at Olympics.com
• Emese Kovacs at Olympic.org (archived)
• Emese Szasz-Kovacs at Olympedia
• Emese Szasz at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottsag (in Hungarian) ( English translation )