Rita Ináncsi

Rita Ináncsi medal table
All-rounder
Hungary
World championships
bronze	1995 Gothenburg	Heptathlon
European championships
silver	1994 Helsinki	Heptathlon
European Indoor Championships
silver	1994 Paris	Pentathlon

Rita Ináncsi (born January 6, 1971 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian athlete who was internationally successful, especially in the heptathlon . Your strongest individual discipline was the long jump . The 1.90 m tall and 73 kg heavy athlete started for Honvéd Budapest .

Career

In 1989 Ináncsi was the first Hungarian heptathlon champion. Internationally, she first appeared when she won the silver medal in the same discipline at the 1990 World Junior Athletics Championships in Plovdiv. Three weeks later she finished tenth at the European Athletics Championships in Split . At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 , she was eleventh.

The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona were not very successful for Ináncsi . In the long jump she was eliminated as the reigning Hungarian indoor champion in the qualification without a valid attempt. She gave up the heptathlon prematurely when she finished the long jump without a valid distance.

At the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 , she finished eleventh in the heptathlon, just like two years earlier. Her final international breakthrough finally came in 1994 when she won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris . She set a national record with 4775 points and only had to admit defeat to Russian Larissa Turchinskaya , who collected 26 more points. In May Ináncsi finished third at the traditional Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis and achieved a Hungarian record in the heptathlon with 6753 points as well as personal bests in the 800-meter run , long jump and high jump . Finally, she crowned her season by winning the silver medal at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. With a score of 6404 she was only 15 points behind the victorious German Sabine Braun .

Another significant success Ináncsi was able to book the following year at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. As part of the heptathlon, she set personal bests in the 200-meter run and in the 100-meter hurdles . In the end she won the bronze medal with 6522 points behind the Syrian Ghada Shouaa (6651 points) and the Russian Swetlana Moskalez (6575 points).

At the end of her international career, Ináncsi finished sixth in the heptathlon at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. In addition, she started there again in the long jump, but failed with a distance of only 6.02 m in the qualification.

Hungarian championship title

• Open air:
  • Heptathlon: 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993
  • Long jump: 1993, 1994, 1995
  • Shot put: 1996

• Hall:
  • Long jump: 1991, 1993, 1994
  • Pentathlon: 1993, 1994
  • 60-meter hurdles: 1993
  • Shot put : 1996

Top performances

• Pentathlon (hall): 4775 points (8.39 s - 1.87 m - 14.47 m - 6.57 m - 2: 20.87 min), 11th / 12th. March 1994, Paris
• Heptathlon: 6573 points (13.66 s - 1.84 m - 13.94 m - 24.20 s - 6.78 m - 46.28 m - 2: 16.02 min) 28/29. May 1994, Götzis
• 200 m: 24.38 s, 9 August 1995, Gothenburg
• 800 m: 2: 16.02 min, May 29, 1994, Götzis
• 100 m hurdles: 13.61 s, August 9, 1995, Gothenburg
• High jump: 1.84 m, May 28, 1994, Götzis
  • Hall: 1.87 m, March 11, 1994, Paris
• Long jump: 6.78 m, May 29, 1994, Götzis
• Shot put: 14.88 m, June 30, 2000, Ibach

Web links

• Rita Ináncsi in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Rita Ináncsi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gbrathletics.com: Hungarian Championships
2. ↑ gbrathletics.com: Hungarian Indoor Championships
3. ↑ European Alltime Indoor Top 30 . tilastopaja.org. Accessed February 2009.
4. ↑ World Outdoor Lists Heptathlon All Time (TXT; 11 KB) IAAF. Archived from the original on December 9, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 17, 2009.