Sarolta Monspart
Sarolta Monspart (born November 17, 1944 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian marathon and orienteer .
Monspart became the first non-Scandinavian world champion in orienteering in 1972. In Staré Splavy , Czechoslovakia , she won ahead of the Finn Pirjo Seppä and the Swede Brigitta Larsson . Two years earlier she had won the silver medal with the Hungarian relay, in which Magda Horvath and Ágnes Hegedűs ran alongside her . At the 1976 World Cup in Aviemore, Scotland, she was third in a season with Iren Rostas and Magdolna Kovacs . She also won the multi-stage O-ring competition in Sweden . In 1978 she ended her career in the Hungarian national team after 16 years after a tick bite caused encephalitis .
At national championships in Hungary Monspart won 14 championship titles in orienteering and six titles in cross-country skiing. She was also a pioneer of orienteering skiing in Hungary.
Monspart was also the first European woman to run a marathon under three hours. She won the Budapest Marathon on October 29, 1972 in 2: 59: 53.2 hours. In 1976 and 1977 she repeated her victories with times of 2: 48: 22.2 h and 2:48:59 h. With her time set up in 1972, she was the fourth fastest woman in the annual ranking behind the Americans Cheryl Flanagan , Teri Anderson and Nina Kuscsik .
In 1967 she completed her studies in Budapest and then initially worked as a primary school teacher. In the 1980s she was team leader of the national orienteering federation and from 1997 to 1999 she was vice president of the world federation IOF .
Placements
| World championships | European championships | Hungarian championships | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | E. | St. | E. | St. | E. | St. | |||
| 1964 | 5. | 8th. | |||||||
| 1965 | |||||||||
| 1966 | 9. | ||||||||
| 1967 | |||||||||
| 1968 | 14th | 7th | |||||||
| 1969 | |||||||||
| 1970 | 8th. | 2. | |||||||
| 1971 | |||||||||
| 1972 | 1. | 4th | |||||||
| 1973 | |||||||||
| 1974 | 15th | 8th. | |||||||
| 1975 | |||||||||
| 1976 | 18th | 3. | |||||||
| Explanation: OWC = overall World Cup / Sp = sprint, KD = short distance, MD = middle distance, LD = long distance, Kl = classic distance, E = individual competition, St = relay, N = night orienteering | |||||||||
Web links
- World Championship results
- European Championship results
- Information about Sarolta Monspart (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ germanroadraces.de: Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ arrs.run: Budapest Marathon
- ↑ arrs.run: World Marathon Rankings for 1972
- ↑ lazarus.elte.hu: Sarolta Monspart (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monspart, Sarolta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian orienteer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |