Liliána Szilágyi
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Liliána Szilágyi (born 19 November 1996) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in the butterfly events.


Career

She collected two medals (gold and silver) in the 100 and 200 m butterfly at the 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. Szilagyi is a member of Kőbánya Swimming Club in
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, and is coached and trained by Gyorgyi Turi. She is also the daughter of three-time Olympian and former freestyle swimmer Zoltán Szilágyi (1988, 1992, and 2000). Szilagyi qualified for the women's 100 m butterfly at the 2012 Summer Olympics in
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, by completing the event more quickly than the FINA B-standard entry time of 59.07 seconds from the European Championships in
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. She competed with seven other swimmers on the third heat, including three-time Olympians Hannah Wilson of Hong Kong and former Olympic champion Otylia Jędrzejczak of Poland. She achieved sixth place ahead of Portugal's Sara Oliveira by a tenth of a second (0.10) in 1:00.34. Szilagyi failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-fourth overall on the first day of preliminary heats. In 2014, she represented Hungary at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing, China.


Personal life

In December 2021, she released a statement claiming that her father, Zoltán Szilágyi have been abusing her mentally, physically and sexually since she was a young child. She claims that her mother had also been abused by him. Liliána and her mother moved out and left her father after the 2016 European Championships, while her younger sister was forced to stay with him. Liliána was advised not to sue for abuse (as these cases can take as long as a decade and mostly end with insignificant consequences for the abuser) He denied the accusations, and threatened to sue. The Hungarian Swimming Association promised to launch an investigation into the matter. Later they've come to the conclusion that Liliána is telling the truth and declared Zoltán Szilágyi as undesirable on events held by the Association. In September 2022 the case entered court as her father decided to sue Liliána for defamation. In court Lilliána speaks of many counts of abuse from childhood up until the point she left with her mother. Zoltán Szilágyi's reactions to the accusations were smiling and at times, expressions of confusion, on this day he did not speak. Liliána is fighting also to raise awareness on the flaws of a justice system that fails to protect victims of abuse. Hungary ranks second amongst EU countries in domestic violence, whose victims are mostly advised against suing due to lengthy proceedings and low expectancy on success.


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NBC Olympics Profile
1996 births Living people Hungarian female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Hungary Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Hungarian female butterfly swimmers Swimmers from Budapest Swimmers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Hungary 20th-century Hungarian women 21st-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-swimming-bio-stub