Blanka Guzi (born 15 May 1999) is a Hungarian
modern pentathlete.
Early life
From
Kistokaj
Kistokaj is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukrai ...
, she went to school in
Miskolc, Guzi played
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
before taking up modern pentathlon and became a member of the Miskolc Swimming Pentathlon Club and Herman Ottó Gimnázium. She won individual silver and team gold at her first major international competition, the 2018 Junior European Championships.
Career
She won bronze in the junior competition at the
Laser Run World Championships in
Dublin in 2018, and won gold at the same event in 2019 in Hungary.
She won silver in the individual and gold in the team event at the
2021 European Modern Pentathlon Championships
The 2021 European Modern Pentathlon Championships were held from 5 to 11 July 2021 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Medal summary Men's events
Women's events
Mixed events
Medal table
References
External linksOfficial site
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in Russia. That year, she won silver in the team event at the
2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships
The 2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships was held from 8 to 14 June 2021 in Cairo, Egypt.
Originally championships were meant to be held in Minsk, Belarus, but due instability in Belarus championships been moved to Egypt. Medal table
Med ...
in
Cairo.
She was a bronze medalist at the
2022 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in the women’s team event in
Alexandria, Egypt. That year, she was a medalist at the
2022 European Modern Pentathlon Championships
The 2022 European Modern Pentathlon Championships was held from 13 to 19 September 2022 in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
Medal summary Men's events
Women's events
Mixed events
Medal table
References
External linksOfficial site
{{European c ...
in Hungary.
She won the
2023 Modern Pentathlon World Cup individual event in
Budapest. She was a bronze medalist at the
2023 European Games
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in
Kraków in the women's team event.
She had success at the
2024 Modern Pentathlon World Cup, winning a bronze medal in the Mixed team relay alongside Gergely Regős, in
Budapest, and gold in the individual in
Sofia, Bulgaria
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.
Personal life
In 2023, she moved to
Budapest and became a member of
Diósgyőri VTK.
References
Living people
1999 births
Hungarian female modern pentathletes
World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists
21st-century Hungarian women
Modern pentathletes at the 2023 European Games
European Games bronze medalists for Hungary
European Games medalists in modern pentathlon
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