Szabina Szűcs | |
Nationality: | Hungarian |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Heptathlon |
Birth Date: | 4 February 2002 |
Pb: | Pentathlon 4588 (Budapest, 2024) Heptathlon: 5709 (Espoo, 2023) |
Szabina Szűcs (born 4 February 2002) is a Hungarian multi-event athlete. She is a multiple time Hungarian national champion in the heptathlon, pentathlon and triple jump.[1]
A member of Kecskemét Athletics and Rugby Club,[2] Szűcs gained her first international experience at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr.[3] She won the 2020 Hungarian Athletics Championships in the triple jump.[4]
Szűcs competed in the heptathlon at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, and was a bronze medalist at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya in the heptathlon with a personal best score of 5674.[5] [6]
In January 2024, she broke Xénia Krizsán's Hungarian U23 record in the pentathlon, and then further improved her record and won the national championship with 4,588 points, jumping to second place in the world rankings. [7] She was subsequently selected to compete at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, in which she finished tenth overall.[8] [9]