Zsuzsanna Krajnyak

Personal information

Born

December 23, 1978 (age 39)

Sport

Country

Hungary

Sport

Wheelchair fencing

Medal record

Wheelchair fencing

Representing Hungary
Paralympic Games
	2004 Athens	Women's épée team open
	2004 Athens	Women's foil team open
	2012 London	Women's épée individual A
	2012 London	Women's épée team open
	2016 Rio	Women's team foil
	2000 Sydney	Women's épée individual A
	2000 Sydney	Women's foil individual A
	2004 Athens	Women's épée individual A
	2016 Rio	Women's foil A
	2016 Rio	Women's team épée

Zsuzsanna Krajnyak (born 23 December 1978) is a Hungarian Paralympic medallist in wheelchair fencing. Her first Paralympic medals came in the 2000 Summer Paralympics where she won two bronze medals. Other wheelchair fencing competitions won medals at were the European and World Championships. Krajnyak was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability in 2006.

Krajnyak was born on 23 December, 1978.

Krajnyak first competed in the Paralympics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics where she won a bronze in the foil and epee events. Alongside a bronze in the epee event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, Krajnyak also won a silver in the women's team foil and epee. After not medalling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Krajnyak won silver medals in the individual and team epee events in the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Her most recent Paralympic medals were a silver medal in the team foil competition with a bronze in the team epee and individual foil competitions at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Outside of the Paralympics, Krajnyak has won medals in wheelchair fencing at the European Championships and World Championships competitions held by the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation. In the European Championships, she won four gold medals in 2011 and a gold in the women's foil in 2014. At the World Championships, Krajnyak won two bronzes in the women's team epee and foil events in 2013 and a silver in women's foil in 2015. Krajnyak also won gold at the 2017 World Championships in the women’s epee A event.

In 2006, Krajnyak was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability. In 2016, Krajnyak was named the Disabled Sportswoman of the Year by the Hungarian Sports Journalists Association.

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