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Bence Venyercsán

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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

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  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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