Zsolt Érsek

Zsolt Érsek medal table
fencing
Hungary
Olympic games
bronze	Seoul 1988	Foil team
World championships
bronze	Lausanne 1987	Foil team
European championships
bronze	Vienna 1991	foil
gold	Vienna 1991	Foil team

Zsolt Érsek (born June 13, 1966 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian foil fencer .

successes

Zsolt Érsek won the bronze medal at the World Championships with the team in 1987 in Lausanne . In 1991 he became European champion with her in Vienna and also won bronze in the individual. He took part in the Olympic Games three times : in 1988 he was defeated in the team competition in Seoul in the semi-finals after an 8-8 draw due to the poorer hit ratio against the Soviet Union . In the battle for third place, the Hungarian team prevailed 9: 5 against the GDR team , so that Érsek received the bronze medal together with István Busa , Róbert Gátai , István Szelei and Pál Szekeres . He finished the individual competition in fifth place after a quarter-final defeat against Udo Wagner . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he finished 14th in the singles, with the team he just missed another medal in fourth. Four years later he placed tenth in the singles in Atlanta . In the team competition he was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Russia .

Web links

• Zsolt Érsek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Zsolt Érsek at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian)