Emese Hunyady

Emese Hunyady

Emese Hunyady
Personal information
Born	4 March 1966 Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Spouse(s)	Thomas Nemeth
Sport
Country	Hungary Austria
Sport	Speed skating
Turned pro	1981
Retired	2002
Medal record Competitor for  Austria Women's speed skating Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer 1500 m 1994 Lillehammer 3000 m 1992 Albertville 3000 m

Emese Hunyady (born 4 March 1966 in Budapest, Hungary) is a former speed skater. 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 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 on the 1500 m, while winning Olympic silver on the 3000 m. After that, her successes became fewer, but in 1999, she surprisingly won the World Single Distance Championships on her favourite distance, the 1500 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.

Hunyady is married to Timo Järvinen, a former speed skater from Finland. They have a son, Jasper.^[1]

Medals

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

Championships	Gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
Winter Olympics	1994 (1500 m)	1994 (3000 m)	1992 (3000 m)
World Allround	1994	1992 1993	–
World Sprint	–	–	–
World Single Distance	1999 (1500 m)	–	1996 (1000 m) 2000 (1500 m)
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)
European Allround	1993	1992	1994
Austrian Allround	1995 1996 1997 1999 2000	–	–
Austrian Sprint	2001	–	–
Hungarian Allround	1984	1985	–
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
Mini combination	164.658	27 March 1994	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
500 m	38.87	15 March 2001	Calgary	37.40
1000 m	1:15.99	30 January 2000	Calgary	1:14.61
1500 m	1:56.51	20 February 2002	Salt Lake City	1:54.38
3000 m	4:06.55	10 February 2002	Salt Lake City	3:59.26
5000 m	7:15.23	20 February 1998	Nagano	7:03.26
Small combination	164.885	7 February 1999	Hamar	163.020

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

See also

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

References

1. Ohlinger, Gerhard (14 March 2011). "Emese Hunyady: Eine Goldmedaille öffnet keine Türen". Salzburger Nachrichten. Retrieved 9 December 2012.

• Emese Hunyady at SkateResults.com
• Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
• Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages
• Emese Hunyady. Deutsche Eisschnelllauf Gemeinschaft e.V. (German Skating Association).
• Athlete profile: Emese Hunyady. CNN/SI (1998-02-03). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
• Historical World Records. International Skating Union (2007-06-12). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
• National Championships results. Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség (Hungarian National Skating Federation). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
• Photos and facts of Emese Hunyady. Deutsche Eisschnelllauf Gemeinschaft e.V. (German Skating Association). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.