Emese Szász (; 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 YearLocationEventPosition2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilIndividual Women's Épée1st
World Championship YearLocationEventPosition2005 Leipzig, GermanyTeam Women's Épée2nd2006 Turin, ItalyIndividual Women's Épée3rd2010 Paris, FranceIndividual Women's Épée2nd2013 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Épée3rd
European Championship YearLocationEventPosition2007 Ghent, BelgiumTeam Women's Épée2nd2013 Zagreb, CroatiaIndividual Women's Épée3rd2013 Zagreb, CroatiaTeam Women's Épée3rd2015 Montreux, SwitzerlandIndividual Women's Épée3rd2016 Toruń, PolandIndividual Women's Épée3rd2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Women's Épée3rd
Grand Prix DateLocationEventPosition05/12/2006 Barcelona, SpainIndividual Women's Épée3rd06/16/2006 Havana, CubaIndividual Women's Épée1st01/19/2007 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Épée2nd02/09/2007 Rome, ItalyIndividual Women's Épée2nd01/18/2008 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Épée1st01/16/2009 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Épée3rd02/06/2009 Rome, ItalyIndividual Women's Épée1st01/23/2010 Doha, QatarIndividual Women's Épée2nd02/19/2010 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, FranceIndividual Women's Épée3rd05/28/2010 Montreal, CanadaIndividual Women's Épée2nd06/11/2011 Nanjing, ChinaIndividual Women's Épée3rd02/25/2012 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Épée3rd05/23/2013 Havana, CubaIndividual Women's Épée2nd05/22/2014 Havana, CubaIndividual Women's Épée3rd12/06/2014 Doha, QatarIndividual Women's Épée3rd05/26/2017 Bogotá, ColombiaIndividual Women's Épée1st05/25/2018 Cali, ColombiaIndividual Women's Épée1st
World Cup DateLocationEventPosition05/01/2004 Mödling, AustriaIndividual Women's Épée2nd05/14/2004 Legnano, ItalyIndividual Women's Épée2nd03/03/2007 Tauberbischofsheim, GermanyIndividual Women's Épée1st05/26/2007 Sydney, AustraliaIndividual Women's Épée1st01/26/2008 Prague, Czech RepublicIndividual Women's Épée1st02/16/2008 Barcelona, SpainIndividual Women's Épée2nd03/07/2009 Tauberbischofsheim, GermanyIndividual Women's Épée1st03/27/2010 LuxembourgIndividual Women's Épée1st06/24/2011 Sydney, AustraliaIndividual Women's Épée3rd03/01/2013 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, FranceIndividual Women's Épée2nd02/07/2014 Leipzig, GermanyIndividual Women's Épée3rd03/07/2014 Barcelona, SpainIndividual Women's Épée1st05/16/2014 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilIndividual Women's Épée2nd11/14/2014 Xuzhou, ChinaIndividual Women's Épée1st10/24/2014 Legnano, ItalyIndividual Women's Épée3rd10/23/2015 Legnano, ItalyIndividual Women's Épée3rd01/20/2017 Barcelona, SpainIndividual Women's Épée3rd10/20/2017 Tallinn, EstoniaIndividual Women's Épée3rd
Awards Hungarian Fencer of the Year (5): 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Honorary Citizen of Zugló (2016)
Orders and special awards Order of Merit of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2016)
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