Emese Hunyady

Olympic medal record Competitor for AustriaWomen’s Speed SkatingBronze 1992 Albertville 3,000 mGold 1994 Lillehammer 1,500 mSilver 1994 Lillehammer 3,000 m

Emese Hunyady (born 4 March 1966 in Budapest, Hungary) is a former speed skater.

At age 10, Hunyady participated at the 1977 Hungarian Sprint Championships for Juniors, finishing sixth. Representing Hungary, she had her first international competition in 1979 and in the following years, although still a junior, she entered several senior tournaments. In 1985, after marrying her Austrian coach Thomas Nemeth, she got Austrian citizenship and started competing for Austria. The marriage was dissolved some years later, but she retained her Austrian citizenship.

During her 25-year long career, she was a steady performer, almost always finishing in the top 10 of the events she participated in. Her best year was 1994, when she won bronze at the European Allround Championships, became World Allround Champion, won the 1,500 m World Cup, and became Olympic Champion on the 1,500 m, while winning Olympic silver on the 3,000 m. After that, her successes became fewer, but in 1999, she surprisingly won the World Single Distance Championships on her favourite distance, the 1,500 m.

Hunyady participated in six Winter Olympics from 1984 to 2002 and won a large number of Hungarian and Austrian National Allround, Sprint, and Single Distance Championships. She started her sporting career in figure skating, something she used to show when celebrating her victories as a speed skater.

Currently, Hunyady is married to Timo Järvinen, a former skeed skater from Finland.

Medals

An overview of medals won by Hunyady at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:

Championships Gold medal Silver medal Bronze medal Winter Olympics1994 (1,500 m) 1994 (3,000 m) 1992 (3,000 m) World Allround1994 1992
1993 – World Sprint– – – World Single Distance1999 (1,500 m) – 1996 (1,000 m)
2000 (1,500 m) World Cup1994 (1,500 m) 1991 (1,500 m)
1992 (1,500 m)
1992 (3,000 m / 5,000 m)
1993 (1,500 m)
1995 (1,500 m)
1990 (1,500 m)
1993 (3,000 m / 5,000 m)
1998 (1,500 m)
European Allround1993 1992 1994 Austrian Allround 1995
1996
1997
1999
2000 – – Austrian Sprint 2001 – – Hungarian Allround 1984 1985 – Hungarian Sprint 1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985 – –

World records

Over the course of her career, Hunyady skated one world record:

Event Result Date Venue Mini combination164.658 27 March 1994 Calgary

Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the last column (WR) lists the official world records on the dates that Hunyady skated her personal records.