Emese Hunyady

{{short description|Hungarian-Austrian speed skater (born 1966)}}

{{Infobox speed skater

| name = Emese Hunyady

| image = Emese.jpg

| caption = Hunyady in 2021

| headercolor = #d7ecff

| country = {{HUN}}
{{AUT}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|03|04|df=y}}

| birth_place = Budapest, Hungary

| height = 1.67 m

| weight = 65 kg

| spouse = Tamás Németh

| turnedpro = 1981

| retired = 2002

| show-medals = yes

| pb =

| medaltemplates =

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Emese Hunyady (born 4 March 1966) is a former Hungarian-Austrian speed skater.

At age ten, Hunyady participated at the 1977 Hungarian Sprint Championships for Juniors, finishing sixth. Representing Hungary, she had her first international competition in 1979, and in the following years, although still a junior, she entered several senior tournaments. In 1985, after marrying her Austrian coach Tamás Németh, she obtained Austrian citizenship, and started competing for Austria. The marriage was dissolved some years later, but she retained her Austrian citizenship.

During her 25-year-long career, she was a steady performer, almost always finishing in the top 10 of the events she participated in. Her best year was 1994, when she won bronze at the European Allround Championships, became World Allround Champion, won the 1500 m World Cup, and became Olympic Champion in the 1500 m, while winning Olympic silver in the 3000 m. After that, her successes became fewer, but in 1999, she surprisingly won the World Single Distance Championships in her favourite distance, the 1500 m.

Hunyady participated in six Winter Olympics from 1984 to 2002, and won many Hungarian and Austrian National Allround, Sprint, and Single Distance Championships. She started her sporting career in figure skating, something she used to show when celebrating her victories as a speed skater.

Hunyady is married to Timo Järvinen, a former speed skater from Finland. They have a son, Jasper.{{cite news|last=Ohlinger|first=Gerhard|title=Emese Hunyady: Eine Goldmedaille öffnet keine Türen|url=http://mein.salzburg.com/blog/hauptsache_sport/2011/03/emese-hunyady.html|access-date=9 December 2012|newspaper=Salzburger Nachrichten|date=14 March 2011}}

Medals

An overview of medals won by Hunyady at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! Championships \| bgcolor=gold \| Gold medal	bgcolor=silver \| Silver medal	bgcolor=cc9966 \| Bronze medal
align="left" \| Winter Olympics	1994 (1500 m)	1994 (3000 m)	1992 (3000 m)
align="left" \| World Allround	1994	1992 1993	–
align="left" \| World Sprint	–	–	–
align="left" \| World Single Distance	1999 (1500 m)	–	1996 (1000 m) 2000 (1500 m)
align="left" \| World Cup	1994 (1500 m)	1991 (1500 m) 1992 (1500 m) 1992 (3000 m / 5000 m) 1993 (1500 m) 1995 (1500 m)	1990 (1500 m) 1993 (3000 m / 5000 m) 1998 (1500 m)
align="left" \| European Allround	1993	1992	1994
align="left" \| Austrian Allround	1995 1996 1997 1999 2000	–	–
align="left" \| Austrian Sprint	2001	–	–
align="left" \| Hungarian Allround	1984	1985	–
align="left" \| Hungarian Sprint	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985	–	–

World records

Over the course of her career, Hunyady skated one world record:

Event	Result	Date	Venue
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
Mini combination	164.658	27 March 1994	align="left"\|Calgary

Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the last column (WR) lists the official world records on the dates that Hunyady skated her personal records.

Event	Result	Date	Venue	WR
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
500 m	38.87	15 March 2001	align="left"\|Calgary	37.40
1000 m	1:15.99	30 January 2000	align="left"\|Calgary	1:14.61
1500 m	1:56.51	20 February 2002	align="left"\|Salt Lake City	1:54.38
3000 m	4:06.55	10 February 2002	align="left"\|Salt Lake City	3:59.26
5000 m	7:15.23	20 February 1998	align="left"\|Nagano	7:03.26
Small combination	164.885	7 February 1999	align="left"\|Hamar	163.020

Hunyady has an Adelskalender score of 162.320 points. Her highest position on the Adelskalender was a third place.

References

External links

[http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/397 Emese Hunyady at SkateResults.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103091223/http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/397 |date=3 January 2007 }}
[http://www.sskating.com/index.php?name=HUNYADY&fname=Emese&nat=AUT&lm=l Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070212091729/http://web.telia.com/~u46130641/adel.htm Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312223409/http://www.desg.de/skater.php?anzeige=skater&skater=2375 Emese Hunyady]. Deutsche Eisschnelllauf Gemeinschaft e.V. (German Skating Association).
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604025601/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/events/1998/nagano/athletes/454.htm Athlete profile: Emese Hunyady]. CNN/SI (1998-02-03). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205184935/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,4844-181536-198754-94643-0-file,00.pdf Historical World Records]. International Skating Union (2007-06-12). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071007214351/http://www.moksz.hu/szakagak/gyorskorcsolya/oberedmenyek.htm National Championships results]. Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség (Hungarian National Skating Federation). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312070144/http://www.fotos.desg.de/athletes.php?showAthletes=all&id=168 Photos and facts of Emese Hunyady]. Deutsche Eisschnelllauf Gemeinschaft e.V. (German Skating Association). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.