Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo
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Born | Brașov, Romania[1] | 11 March 1967||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Romanian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Foil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CS Tractorul Brașov CS Progresul București CSA Steaua București TSV Bayer Dormagen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo (Hungarian: Réka Zsófia Lázár-Szabó, born 11 March 1967) is a Romanian foil fencer, bronze medallist in the 1992 Summer Olympics, World champion in 1994, and silver medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[2][1]
Career
She is of
In 1983 she won the Romanian Cup and joined the national senior team.[4] The same year, she took part in her first international competition at the Minsk Junior World Cup. She ranked in the Top 16 at her first Junior World Championships in Leningrad. A year later, in 1985, she reached the final of the Junior World Championships in Arnhem and came away with a silver medal. She won the Junior World title in 1986 at Stuttgart.[4] She made her Olympic début at Seoul 1988, but she was defeated in the second round in the individual event and in the first round in the team event.[4]
In 1989 she married
Lazăr-Szabo retired from competition in 2004, after 21 years spent in the national team, after missing the qualification for the 2004 Summer Olympics.[5] Her eldest son Matyas, born in 1991, took up fencing because their parents were always at the fencing hall; he is now a member of Germany's senior sabre team and won with them the 2014 World Championships. She stopped her coaching activities after her second son, Marc, was born.[5]
Lazăr-Szabo was inducted in 2013 in the Hall of Fame of the
References
- ^ a b c d "Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ Mircea Dominte (6 September 2013). "Origini ungurești pentru medalii olimpice românești" (in Romanian). fanatik.ro.
- ^ a b c d Dan Vintilă (1 August 2006). "Reka Szabo – Lazăr și cele 13 medalii internaționale". Bună Ziua Brașov (in Romanian).
- ^ a b "Szabo International". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 12 June 2007.
- ^ "Szabo, Reka (ROU)". International Fencing Federation. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014.
External links
- Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo at the International Fencing Federation
- Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo at Olympedia