Réka György (born 25 May 1996) is a Hungarian swimmer who currently competes as part of the Virginia Tech swimming team. She competed in the

women's 200 metre backstroke A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...

event at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. In March 2022, György wrote an open letter criticizing the NCAA in their policy to allow transgender women to participate. Gyorgy had placed 17th in the preliminaries for the 500 freestyle in the NCAA Championships, which made her first alternate and therefore out of the consolation final, which includes the top 16 finishers. In the letter, she stated that she "feels like that final spot was taken away" from her due to the NCAA's decision to allow Lia Thomas to compete.

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* 1996 births Living people Hungarian female medley swimmers Olympic swimmers for Hungary Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Hungarian female backstroke swimmers Virginia Tech Hokies women's swimmers Hungarian expatriate swimmers in the United States Swimming controversies 21st-century Hungarian women Hungarian female freestyle swimmers Hungarian female butterfly swimmers {{Hungary-swimming-bio-stub