Richard Varga
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![]() Richard Varga, January 2013
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Personal information | |
Date of birth | 28th January 1989 (age 31) |
place of birth | Slovakia |
Nickname | The Fish |
societies | |
2020 | EJOT Team TV Buschhütten |
successes | |
2010-2015 | 4 × ITU World Champion Aquathlon |
2012 | Vice-European triathlon U23 champion |
2017 | ETU European champion aquathlon |
2018 | ETU European champion triathlon sprint distance |
2019 | Slovak champion triathlon sprint distance |
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Richard Varga (born January 28, 1989 ) is a Slovak triathlete . He is a four-time aquathlon world champion (2010, 2112, 2013, 2015), two-time Olympian (2012, 2016), European champion triathlon sprint distance (2018) and reigning Slovakian champion on the triathlon sprint distance (2019).
Career
In 2009 Varga started at the European Winter Triathlon Championships and he finished tenth.
World Champion Aquathlon 2010
In September 2010 he became world champion in aquathlon in Budapest and he was able to secure this title again in 2012 and 2013.
2012 Summer Olympics
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished 22nd in the triathlon in London, having started the race as the fastest swimmer. In September Richard Varga became vice-European triathlon champion in the U23 class.
In September 2015 he won the title of Aquathlon World Champion for the fourth time in Chicago.
In May 2016 he was twelfth at the European Championships on the Olympic short distance.
2016 Summer Olympics
Richard Varga finished eleventh at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on August 18 .
In September he became Vice World Champion Aquathlon in Mexico. In Slovakia he became European Aquathlon Champion in May 2017.
In July 2018, the 29-year-old became European champion in the triathlon sprint distance in Estonia. In September 2019 he became the Slovak champion on the triathlon sprint distance. Richard Varga lives in Bratislava .
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Sep 14 2019 | 1 | SVK Sprint Triathlon National Championships |
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00:58:32 | Slovak champion on the sprint distance |
20th July 2018 | 1 | ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championships |
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00:53:07 | European champion on the sprint distance |
19 Mar 2017 | 4th | Super League Triathlon Australia |
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Kick-off event in the new three-day racing format | |
18 Aug 2016 | 11 | 2016 Summer Olympics |
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01:47:17 | |
May 28, 2016 | 12 | ETU Triathlon European Championships |
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01:51:12 | European championship on the Olympic short distance |
29 Mar 2015 | 7th | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
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01:57:07 | in the second race of the season |
7th Mar 2015 | 24 | ITU World Championship Series 2015 |
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00:54:01 | in the first race of the season on the sprint distance |
Sep 1 2012 | 2 | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 |
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01:48:39 | U23 runner-up European triathlon champion, behind the Frenchman Pierre Le Corre |
Aug 7, 2012 | 22nd | 2012 Summer Olympics |
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01:49:25 | |
June 20, 2009 | 10 | ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 |
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01:52:54 | U23 European Triathlon Championship |
June 12, 2009 | 2 | Vienna City Triathlon |
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behind the Austrian Franz Höfer second over the Olympic distance | |
May 10, 2008 | 64 | ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men |
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01:04:56 | |
June 23, 2006 | 56 | ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men |
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01:05:49 |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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May 27, 2017 | 1 | ETU Aquathlon European Championships |
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00:28:13 | European champion aquathlon |
Sep 14 2016 | 2 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships |
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00:29:03 | Vice World Champion Aquathlon |
16 Sep 2015 | 1 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships |
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00:25:42 | Aquathlon world champion |
Sep 11 2013 | 1 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships |
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00:28:40 | Aquathlon world champion (1 km swim and 5 km run) |
Oct 17, 2012 | 1 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships |
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00:28:33 | Aquathlon world champion |
8 Sep 2010 | 1 | ITU Aquathlon World Championships |
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00:20:27 | Aquathlon world champion |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Feb 6, 2009 | 10 | ETU Winter Triathlon European Championship U23 |
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01:35:49 | European Championship U23 |
Web links
- Richard Varga's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 14, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Murray secures jackpot (March 19, 2017)
- ↑ Portrait of Richard Varga (BBC)
- ↑ Richard Varga of Slovakia And Irina Abysova of Russia win 2013 ITU Aquathlon World Championships in London (September 13, 2013)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Varga, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1989 |