Márta Vass
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National team | Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Marcali, Hungary | July 6, 1962|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Ultramarathon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | TOYOTA-Szupermaraton FC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Márta Vass (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈma:rtə ˈvɑːʃ], born July 6, 1962 in Marcali and raised in Nemesdéd, Hungary) is a Hungarian ultramarathon runner, former IAU100km European champion and multiple IAU 100 km World Championship medallist.
Athletic career[]
Vass is Hungary's first internationally recognized female ultra-runner. During her career she set several national records in the 100 km event. Her outstanding accomplishments include the European 100 kilometer Championship title in 1993.[1] At the same championship she led the Hungarian women’s team (including and ) to the second place of the podium. Her top rivals included Great Britain's and Eleanor Adams-Robinson.
Vass also has four IAU 100 km World Championship medals under her belt: two silver ( Santander 1988, Palamos 1992) and two bronze (Duluth 1990, Faenza 1991) ones.
She took third place with a strong performance of 6 hours 51 minutes and 4 seconds behind world champions (Валентина Васильевна Ляхова ) and (Шатяева, Валентина Николаевна) in the grueling up-run of the Comrades Marathon in 1994.[2][3]
Vass was the five-time female winner of the renowned Night of Flanders 100 km race organized in Torhout, Belgium during midsummer.[4]
Due to her four consecutive victories between 1990 and 1993, Vass became an iconic figure of the prestigious Vienna–Bratislava–Budapest Supermarathon, a five-day stage race covering over 350 km.
Being one of the handful Hungarian ultra-runners to have finished on the podium at IAU championships, Vass was inducted in the Hungarian Ultrarunners' Hall of Fame in January 2016.[5]
Professional life[]
Vass is a teacher of mathematics and chemistry, living with her husband György Pék (former handball player and referee) and daughter Eszter in Budapest.
Awards[]
- Life Achievement Award for Ultrarunning 2010
- Hungarian Ultrarunners' Hall of Fame 2016
References[]
- ^ "DUV Ultra Marathon Statistics".
- ^ Jürgen Schoch. "DUV Ultramarathon-Statistik". d-u-v.org.
- ^ Comrades 1994 Highlights. March 16, 2012 – via YouTube.
- ^ Jürgen Schoch. "DUV Ultramarathon-Statistik". d-u-v.org.
- ^ Hegyi Áron. "Népes lett a magyar ultrafutók dicsőségcsarnoka". vs.hu.
- Living people
- 1962 births
- Hungarian female long-distance runners
- Athletes from Budapest
- Hungarian schoolteachers