Richard Varga

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Richard Varga, January 2013
Richard Varga, January 2013
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
status
active

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

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Sep 14 2019 1 SVK Sprint Triathlon National Championships SlovakiaSlovakia Stará Myjava 00:58:32 Slovak champion on the sprint distance
20th July 2018 1 ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championships EstoniaEstonia Tartu 00:53:07 European champion on the sprint distance
19 Mar 2017 4th Super League Triathlon Australia AustraliaAustralia Hamilton Island Kick-off event in the new three-day racing format
18 Aug 2016 11 2016 Summer Olympics BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro 01:47:17
May 28, 2016 12 ETU Triathlon European Championships PortugalPortugal Lisbon 01:51:12 European championship on the Olympic short distance
29 Mar 2015 7th ITU World Championship Series 2015 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland 01:57:07 in the second race of the season
07th Mar 2015 24 ITU World Championship Series 2015 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 00:54:01 in the first race of the season on the sprint distance
0Sep 1 2012 2 ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 SpainSpain Aguilas 01:48:39 U23 runner-up European triathlon champion, behind the Frenchman Pierre Le Corre
0Aug 7, 2012 22nd 2012 Summer Olympics United KingdomUnited Kingdom London 01:49:25
June 20, 2009 10 ETU Triathlon European Championship U23 ItalyItaly Tarzo Revine 01:52:54 U23 European Triathlon Championship
June 12, 2009 2 Vienna City Triathlon AustriaAustria Vienna behind the Austrian Franz Höfer second over the Olympic distance
May 10, 2008 64 ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men SpainSpain Lisbon 01:04:56
June 23, 2006 56 ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Men FranceFrance Autun 01:05:49
Aquathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
May 27, 2017 1 ETU Aquathlon European Championships SlovakiaSlovakia Bratislava 00:28:13 European champion aquathlon
Sep 14 2016 2 ITU Aquathlon World Championships MexicoMexico Cozumel 00:29:03 Vice World Champion Aquathlon
16 Sep 2015 1 ITU Aquathlon World Championships United StatesUnited States Chicago 00:25:42 Aquathlon world champion
Sep 11 2013 1 ITU Aquathlon World Championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom London 00:28:40 Aquathlon world champion (1 km swim and 5 km run)
Oct 17, 2012 1 ITU Aquathlon World Championships AustraliaAustralia Auckland 00:28:33 Aquathlon world champion
08 Sep 2010 1 ITU Aquathlon World Championships HungaryHungary Budapest 00:20:27 Aquathlon world champion
Winter triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Feb 6, 2009 10 ETU Winter Triathlon European Championship U23 SlovakiaSlovakia Látky Mláky 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

  1. ↑ Richard Murray secures jackpot (March 19, 2017)
  2. ↑ Portrait of Richard Varga (BBC)
  3. ↑ Richard Varga of Slovakia And Irina Abysova of Russia win 2013 ITU Aquathlon World Championships in London (September 13, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Varga, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1989