András Szatmári

The native form of this personal name is Szatmári András. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

András Szatmári (born 3 February 1993) is a Hungarian right-handed sabre fencer, 2018 team European champion, 2017 individual world champion, and 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist.^[1]

András Szatmári
Szatmári at the 2014 European Fencing Championships
Personal information
Born	(1993-02-03) 3 February 1993 (age 30) Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Country	Hungary
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	Right-handed
Club	MTK Budapest
Head coach	Gárdos Gábor
Former coach	Bence Szabó, Ferenc Riba
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's sabre Representing  Hungary Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 1 World Championships 1 4 2 European Championships 2 1 2 Total 3 5 5 Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships 2017 Leipzig Individual 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2019 Budapest Individual 2019 Budapest Team 2022 Cairo Team 2014 Kazan Team 2018 Wuxi Team European Championships 2018 Novi Sad Team 2022 Antalya Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team 2015 Montreaux Team 2017 Tbilisi Team Hungarian Fencing Championships 2016 Budapest Individual

Career

Szatmári took up fencing to follow the steps of his father, who fenced at Vasas SC. His first coach was György Gerevich, son of seven-time Olympic fencer Aladár Gerevich, who also trained Áron Szilágyi and Csanád Gémesi. Szatmári was Junior European Champion and U23 European Championship in 2012^[2] and won the silver medal in the 2013 Junior World Championships in Poreč.^[3]

He reached the quarter-finals in the 2013 World Championships in home city Budapest, where he was defeated by Russia's Nikolay Kovalev, who eventually took the silver medal. He was part of the Hungarian team that reached the semi-finals at the 2014 World Championships in Kazan, lost to South Korea, but defeated Russia to earn the bronze medal.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[4]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[5]
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[6]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Individual Men's Sabre	1st^[7]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[8]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[9]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[10]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[11]
2022	Cairo, Egypt	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[12]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[13]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[14]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Sabre	1st^[15]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[16]
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Team Men's Sabre	1st

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
12/15/2017	Cancún, Mexico	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[17]
01/15/2023	Tunis, Tunisia	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[18]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
12/02/2016	Győr, Hungary	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[19]
02/03/2017	Padua, Italy	Individual Men's Sabre	1st^[20]
05/19/2017	Madrid, Spain	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[21]
02/02/2018	Padua, Italy	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[22]
12/02/2023	Warsaw, Poland	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[23]
03/04/2023	Padua, Italy	Team Men's Sabre	1st^[24]

Awards

• Hungarian Fencer of the Year: 2017

Orders and special awards

•   Hungarian Cross of Merit – Gold Cross (2021)

References

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2. (in Hungarian). Hungarian Fencing Federation. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
3. (in Hungarian). Hungarian Olympic Committee. 11 April 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
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18. "Georgia's Bazadze, Greece's Georgiadou Win Tunis Sabre Grand Prix". International Fencing Federation. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
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External links

 

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