Emese Szász-Kovács

The native form of this personal name is Szász Emese. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Emese Szász
File:Emese Szasz podium 2013 Fencing WCH EFS-IN t214318.jpg At the 2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Full name	Emese Judit Szász
Born	(1982-09-07) 7 September 1982 Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country	Hungary
Weapon	épée
Hand	left-handed
Club	Vasas SC (2009- ) Bp. Honvéd ( -2009)
Head coach	Győző Kulcsár
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's épée Representing Hungary Olympic Games Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual World Championships Silver medal – second place 2005 Leipzig Team Silver medal – second place 2010 Paris Individual Bronze medal – third place 2006 Turin Individual Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest Individual European Championships Bronze medal – third place 2013 Zagreb Individual Bronze medal – third place 2013 Zagreb Team Bronze medal – third place 2017 Tbilisi Individual

Emese Szász-Kovács (pronounced [ˈɛmɛʃɛ ˈsaːs]; born 7 September 1982) is a Hungarian left-handed épée fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2016 individual Olympic champion.

Career

Szász'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 György Felletár and Béla 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.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Women's Épée	1st

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2005	Leipzig, Germany	Team Women's Épée	2nd
2006	Turin, Italy	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
2010	Paris, France	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Épée	3rd

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2007	Ghent, Belgium	Team Women's Épée	2nd
2013	Zagreb, Croatia	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
2013	Zagreb, Croatia	Team Women's Épée	3rd
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
2016	Toruń, Poland	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Women's Épée	3rd

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/12/2006	Barcelona, Spain	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
06/16/2006	Havana, Cuba	Individual Women's Épée	1st
01/19/2007	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
02/09/2007	Rome, Italy	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
01/18/2008	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Épée	1st
01/16/2009	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
02/06/2009	Rome, Italy	Individual Women's Épée	1st
01/23/2010	Doha, Qatar	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
02/19/2010	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
05/28/2010	Montreal, Canada	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
06/11/2011	Nanjing, China	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
02/25/2012	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
05/23/2013	Havana, Cuba	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
05/22/2014	Havana, Cuba	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
12/06/2014	Doha, Qatar	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
05/26/2017	Bogotá, Colombia	Individual Women's Épée	1st
05/25/2018	Cali, Colombia	Individual Women's Épée	1st

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/01/2004	Mödling, Austria	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
05/14/2004	Legnano, Italy	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
03/03/2007	Tauberbischofsheim, Germany	Individual Women's Épée	1st
05/26/2007	Sydney, Australia	Individual Women's Épée	1st
01/26/2008	Prague, Czech Republic	Individual Women's Épée	1st
02/16/2008	Barcelona, Spain	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
03/07/2009	Tauberbischofsheim, Germany	Individual Women's Épée	1st
03/27/2010	Luxembourg	Individual Women's Épée	1st
06/24/2011	Sydney, Australia	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
03/01/2013	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
02/07/2014	Leipzig, Germany	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
03/07/2014	Barcelona, Spain	Individual Women's Épée	1st
05/16/2014	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Women's Épée	2nd
11/14/2014	Xuzhou, China	Individual Women's Épée	1st
10/24/2014	Legnano, Italy	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
10/23/2015	Legnano, Italy	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
01/20/2017	Barcelona, Spain	Individual Women's Épée	3rd
10/20/2017	Tallinn, Estonia	Individual Women's Épée	3rd

Awards

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

Orders and special awards

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

External links

• 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 Szász-Kovács at Olympedia (archive)
• Emese Szász at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)