Liza Pusztai (born 11 May 2001) is a Hungarian sabre fencer. She is a two-time world champion in the team sabre and a two-time European Championships silver and bronze medallist. Pusztai represented Hungary at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics. She is also a junior world champion and two-time Youth Olympics gold medalist, having won the girls' sabre event and the mixed team event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
Career Pusztai won her first senior international medal at the 2017 European Championships in Tbilisi, where she won a bronze medal in the women's sabre event. In 2018, she won gold medals in the girls' sabre event and the mixed team event at the Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, and the gold medal in the women's sabre event at the Hungarian Fencing Championships held in Budapest. In 2019, she won the silver medal in the women's team sabre event at the European Championships in Düsseldorf.
In 2021, Pusztai competed in the women's sabre event and the women's team sabre event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, where she was eliminated in the round of 16 and placed eight with the Hungarian team respectively. She won the gold medal in the women's team sabre event at the 2022 World Championships in Cairo. Pusztai and the Hungarian team retained their world title at the 2023 World Championships in Milan. In 2024, she won the silver medal in the women's sabre event at the 2024 European Championships held in Basel.
Pusztai competed in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, reaching the round of 16 in the women's sabre event and placing sixth in the women's team sabre event.
Medal record
World Championship DateLocationEventPosition 2022/07/23 Cairo, Egypt Team Women's Sabre1st 2023/07/30 Milan, Italy Team Women's Sabre1st2025/07/30 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam Women's Sabre3rd
European Championship DateLocationEventPosition2017/06/12 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2019/06/20 Düsseldorf, GermanyTeam Women's Sabre2nd2023/06/30 Kraków, PolandTeam Women's Sabre3rd2024/06/20 Basel, SwitzerlandIndividual Women's Sabre2nd
Grand Prix DateLocationEventPosition2019/05/24 Moscow, RussiaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
World Cup DateLocationEventPosition2018/03/16 Athens, GreeceIndividual Women's Sabre2nd2019/03/08 Athens, GreeceIndividual Women's Sabre3rd2020/03/06 Athens, GreeceIndividual Women's Sabre2nd2021/03/12 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
Awards Hungarian Fencer of the Year: 2018, 2020
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