Emese Szász
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| Full name | Emese Judit Szász | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 September 1982 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Weapon(s) | épée | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club |
 Vasas SC (2009- ) Bp. Honvéd ( -2009) |
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| Head coach(es) | Győző Kulcsár | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emese Szász (pronounced [ˈɛmɛʃɛ ˈsaːs]; born 7 September 1982) is a Hungarian épée fencer, Olympic gold medalist (2016), and silver medallist at the 2010 World Championships. She won the World Cup series in 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons.
Szász's first sport was swimming, but she grew tired of it. She did not think she would succeed in a ball game, being left-handed, so she took on fencing. Her first coaches were György Felletár and Béla Kopetka. She joined the junior national Hungarian team, with which she won a gold medal at the 1998 Junior World Championships in Valencia and a silver medal at the 1999 edition in Keszthely.
At the senior level she won a team silver medal with Hungary at the 2005 World Championships in Leipzig. She made her breakthrough in the 2005–06 season, climbing her first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Barcelona, then a victory at the Havana Grand Prix. She took an individual bronze medal at the 2006 edition in Leipzig after she lost 15–10 to Estonia's Irina Embrich in the semi-finals. She finished No.4 in World rankings.
In the 2007–08 season she posted six top-eight rankings, including two victories at the Tauberbischofsheim and the Sydney World Cups. She qualified to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing through her individual ranking. She defeated Algeria's Hadia Bentaleb in the table of 32, but yielded to Russia's Lyubov Shutova in the next round.
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