Máté Koroknai (born 13 January 1993) is a Hungarian athlete specialising in the

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

Personal life

From Debrecen he attended the

University of Debrecen ThUniversity of Debrecen( hu, Debreceni Egyetem) is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary ever since its ...

. He then attended the University of Nebraska and studied electric engineering between 2014 and 2017.

Career

In 2014 and 2015, as well as 2020 and 2021, Koroknai was the Hungarian champion in the

. He ran the 19th fastest time of 2020 worldwide, when he ran 49.71 on the 5 September 2020 in

Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...

. It was a new personal best time and had come after a year long absence with an Achilles’ tendon injury. At the 2020 Summer Olympics 400 metre hurdles race he ran 49.80 in the heats but did not qualify further.

References

1993 births Living people Hungarian male hurdlers Hungarian Athletics Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Hungary Nebraska Cornhuskers athletes Nebraska Cornhuskers men's track and field athletes 21st-century Hungarian people {{hungary-athletics-bio-stub