Greta Kerekes

Greta Kerekes
nation	Hungary
birthday	9th October 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Debrecen , Hungary
size	164 cm
Weight	54 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	100 meter hurdles
Best performance	12.93 s
society	Tollaslabda Club Debrecen
Trainer	Karlik Pál
status	active
last change: August 11, 2020

Gréta Kerekes (born October 9, 1992 in Debrecen ) is a Hungarian hurdler who specializes in the 100 meter distance .

Athletic career

Gréta Kerekes competed in her first international championships at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Bressanone , where she was eliminated in the preliminaries over 100 meter hurdles with 14.39 seconds. Then she made it to the semifinals at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Tampere , where she was eliminated with 14.15 seconds, but won the silver medal with the Hungarian 4 x 100 meter relay. In 2010 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Moncton and could not finish her preliminary run there. and retired with the Hungarian relay with 45.77 s in the first round. In 2011 she reached the semi-finals in the individual competition at the European Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia , where she was eliminated with 14.07 s and took sixth place with the Hungarian relay in 45.24 s. She then began studying at the University of Texas at El Paso and took part in the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju , South Korea , where she was eliminated from the preliminary round with 14.23 seconds. In 2016, she qualified for the World Indoor Championships in Portland , where she was eliminated from the 60 meter hurdles with 8.37 s in the first round, as well as at the European Championships in Amsterdam in July with 13.54% nbsp; s, where she also competed with the 4 x 100 meter relay, but also failed to qualify for the final with 44.34 s.

In 2017 she took part in the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , where she reached the semifinals over 60 meter hurdles and was eliminated there with 8.23 ​​seconds. In August she took part in the World Championships in London and failed there with 13.15 s in the run-up . At the World Student Games in Taipei two weeks later, she finished eighth in 13.38 s. The following year she reached the semi-finals at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where she was eliminated with 8.17 s. She also reached the semi-finals at the European Championships in Berlin in August and was eliminated there with 13.23 s, while she failed with the relay with 44.15 s in the lead. In 2019 she was fifth at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 8.03 s and then fourth at the European Games in Minsk in 13.16 s. At the beginning of October she again took part in the World Championships in Doha , but failed there with 13.11 seconds in the lead .

In 2014, 2016 and 2017 Kerekes became the Hungarian champion in the 100 meter hurdles and from 2016 to 2019 she was the indoor champion in the 60 meter hurdles.

Personal bests

• 100 m hurdles: 12.93 s (+0.8 m / s), July 9, 2019 in Székesfehérvár
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.02 s, February 17, 2019 in Budapest

Web links

• Gréta Kerekes in the database of World Athletics (English)