Emese Hunyady

Emese Hunyady (born 4 March 1966 in Budapest, Hungary) is a former speed skater.__NOTOC__At age 10, 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 Thomas Nemeth, she got 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 1,500 m World Cup, and became Olympic Champion on the 1,500 m, while winning Olympic silver on the 3,000 m. After that, her successes became fewer, but in 1999, she surprisingly won the World Single Distance Championships on her favourite distance, the 1,500 m.

Hunyady participated in six Winter Olympics from 1984 to 2002 and won a large number of 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.

Currently, Hunyady is married to Timo Järvinen, a former skeed skater from Finland.

Medals

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

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

References

* [http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/397 Emese Hunyady at SkateResults.com]
* [http://www.sskating.com/index.php?name=HUNYADY&fname=Emese&nat=AUT&lm=l Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database]
* [http://web.telia.com/~u46130641/adel.htm Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages]
* [http://www.desg.de/skater.php?anzeige=skater&skater=2375 Emese Hunyady] . "Deutsche Eisschnelllauf Gemeinschaft e.V." (German Skating Association).
* [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.
* [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.
* [http://www.moksz.hu/szakagak/gyorskorcsolya/oberedmenyek.htm National Championships results] . "Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség" (Hungarian National Skating Federation). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
* [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.