Bence Venyercsán

The native form of this personal name is Venyercsán Bence Barnabás. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Bence Venyercsán
Venyercsán at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full nameBence Barnabás Venyercsán
Born8 January 1996 (1996-01-08) (age 28)
Székesfehérvár, Hungary
EducationEötvös Loránd University[1]
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventRace walking
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)10 km – 42:07 (2015)
20 km – 1:28:24 (2014)
50 km – 4:02:35 (2016)[3]

Bence Barnabás Venyercsán (born 8 January 1996) is a Hungarian race walker. He finished 45th in the 50 km event at the 2016 Summer Olympics[2] and 20th in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]

He started competing when he was 13 years old and finished 8th in the 2013 World Youth Championship.[5] He finished 21st in the 2014 Junior World Championship and 8th in the Junior Eb in 2015. in 2017, he won 17th place in the Summer Universiade for 20 kilometers.[6]

In 2017, he finished in 12th place in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland.[7] In 2018, he competed in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany.[8] He finished in 13th place.[8]

References

  1. ^ 2017 Universiade bio
  2. ^ a b Bence Venyercsan Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
  3. ^ Bence Venyercsan. IAAF
  4. ^ "Athletics - Final Results". Olympics. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  5. ^ "European Athletics - Athlete: Bence Venyercsán". european-athletics. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Bence VENYERCSÁN | Profile | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Men's 20 kilometres walk". 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

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