Anna Márton
Márton at the 2014 Orléans Grand Prix
Personal information
Born (1995-03-31) 31 March 1995
Budapest, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
CountryHungary
SportFencing
WeaponSabre
HandRight-handed
ClubBSE ( –2013)
MTK Budapest (2014– )
Head coachGábor Gárdos, Pézsa Tibor
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's sabre
Representing  Hungary
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 MilanTeam
Bronze medal – third place2015 MoscowIndividual
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2016 ToruńIndividual
Silver medal – second place2019 DüsseldorfTeam
Bronze medal – third place2019 DüsseldorfIndividual

Anna Márton (born 31 March 1995) is a Hungarian sabre fencer, Junior European and World Champion in 2014, and a member of the Hungarian National Team.[1] She represented Hungary at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

Márton (L) fences Ukraine's Olha Zhovnir at the 2014 European Championships

Márton began fencing at the age of nine. She is coached by Gábor Gárdos since she is ten.[2] She won the 2010 Cadet European Championships in Athens and earned a bronze medal at the Cadet World Championships in Baku that same year.

She joined in 2011 the senior national team at the age of sixteen and took part in the World Championships in Catania.[3] She did not get past the qualification phase in the individual event. In the team event, Hungary defeated Canada and South Korea before losing to top-seed Russia, who eventually won the gold medal.

In the 2011–12 season Márton won a double gold medal in the cadet category and an individual gold medal in the junior category at the European Championships in Poreč. She took part in the senior European Championships in Legnano, but lost in the first round to World No.1 Olha Kharlan.[4] The following year, she reached the quarter-finals at the European Championships in Zagreb, ceding to Kharlan again. She was stopped by China's Zhu Min in the table of 32 of the World Championships at home in Budapest.

In the 2013–14 season Márton became Junior European and World champion in Jerusalem and Plovdiv respectively. She also reached the table of 16 in four stages of the Fencing World Cup. She was stopped in the second round by Russia's Yana Egorian at the European Championships in Strasburg, but she got to the table of 16 at the World Championships in Kazan, where she was edged out by Russia's Yekaterina Dyachenko.[5]

Márton studies biology at Eötvös Loránd University.[2]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Anna MARTON – Olympic | Hungary". International Olympic Committee. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Márton Anna világai" (in Hungarian). UtánpótlásSport. 16 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Márton Anna "Vívás ésszel és szívvel"" (in Hungarian). ujeuropaalapitvany.hu.
  4. ↑ "Vívó Eb: a világelsővel már nem bírt a 18 éves magyar lány" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport Online. 17 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Vívó-vb: egy tussal maradt le a negyeddöntőről Márton Anna" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport Online. 8 July 2014.
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