Anikó Kálovics

Anikó Kálovics - Great North Run 2007

Anikó Kálovics (born May 13, 1977 in Szombathely ) is a Hungarian long-distance runner .

Life

She has taken part in the Olympic Games three times so far: in Sydney in 2000 she was eliminated in the 10,000 m preliminary run , in 2004 she was 22nd in Athens over the same distance and 20th in Beijing in 2008. At the 1998 European Athletics Championships in Budapest, she was eighth 10,000 m, at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis in 2003 she came in 20th over 10,000 m, in Helsinki in 2005 she failed in the prelim over 5000 m .

She won numerous road races in her sporting career: a total of six times she won the Grand Prix of Prague over 5 km (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008), from 1996 to 1998 she won three times the Alsterlauf , in 2002 she won at the Wachau Marathon on the half marathon route, 2006 and 2010 at the Grand Prix of Bern , 2006 and 2007 at the Lucerne City Run and in 2007 at the Swiss Women's Run and the Darmstadt City Run .

In 2006 she added the marathon to her repertoire. She immediately won the Maratona d'Italia in Carpi on a course that was steep and therefore not suitable for a record in 2:26:44 hours. The following year she won the Turin marathon in 2:29:24 and repeated her victory in Carpi, and in 2008 she was third in the Rome marathon in 2:29:04 and winner of the Venice marathon in 2:31:24.

Best times

• 5000 m: 15: 10.21 min, July 30, 2004, Trient
• 10,000 m: 31: 40.31 min, July 5, 2003, London (Hungarian record)
• 10 km: 31:42 min, April 17th 2006, Watford
• 15 km: 49:24 min, November 21, 2004, Nijmegen (Hungarian record)
• 20 km: 1:06:20 h, October 8, 2006, Debrecen (Hungarian record)
• Half marathon: 1:08:58 h, April 1, 2007, Milan (Hungarian record)
• Marathon: 2:29:04 h, March 16, 2008, Rome

Web links

• Anikó Kálovics in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr