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Full name | Szandra Lajtos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Hungarian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Szeged, Hungary |
22 July 1986 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Short track speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Szegedi Korcsolyázó Egyesület | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Szandra Lajtos (pronounced [ˈsɒndrɒ ˈlɒjtoʃ]; born 22 July 1986 in Szeged) is a Hungarian short track speed skater.
Her first major championship was the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, where she participated at the age of 15, being the youngest member of the Hungarian delegation, and also the youngest competitor in short track speed skating. Lajtos ran in two distances, finishing 28th in 500 metres and 19th in the 1,000 metres event.
Among her best results are a silver medal in the 3000 metres relay from the 2011 European Championship and two bronze medals in the same event from 2006 and 2012.
Lajtos was also member of the Hungarian relay team at the 2011 Winter Universiade, where they came third behind South Korea and China.