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Éva Kürti
Éva Kürti (born 21 July 1976) is a retired Hungarian bobsledder, shot putter, and discus thrower. She first competed as a brakewoman, along with her partner lldikó Stréhli, on the Hungarian bobsledding team at the 2002 Winter Olympics, before turning her sights on the shot put and discus throw at the 2004 Summer Olympics, making her one of the few athletes who had competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. During her track and field career, Kürti managed to establish her personal bests of 17.60 in shot put and 59.05 in discus throw at the European Grand Prix in Uzhhorod, Ukraine in 2004. Kürti was a member of the track and field squad for NyÃregyházi Vasutas Sport Club in NyÃregyháza, under head coach László Kerekes. Kürti started her sporting career as part of the Hungarian bobsledding team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where she and her partner Ildikó Strehli placed thirteenth in the two-woman race with a total running time of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th century, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Lake City 2002
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléà 2002; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an international winter multi-sport event that was held from February 8 to 24, 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Salt Lake City was selected as the host city in June 1995 at the 104th IOC Session. They were the eighth Olympics to be hosted by the United States, and the most recent to be held in the country (Los Angeles will host the future 2028 Summer Olympics). The 2002 Winter Olympics and 2002 Paralympic Winter Games, Paralympics were both organized by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002, Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), the first time that both events were organized by a single committee. The Games featured 2,399 athletes from 78 nations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
