Sport Centre
01-03-2010

Athletes from Debrecen in the national top

Athletes of the Debrecen Sportcentre showed their mettles in the Indoor National Championships and the National Winter Throwing Championships. Javelin thrower Xenia Nagy is a good example: She got gold medal in very bad weather conditions but she managed to throw nearly 50 meters and won the first gold medal of the Championships.

Olivér Harsányi became a worthy winner of the high jump event, Gréta Kerekes with a personal best got second in 60m hurdles. Tibor Koroknai, in the men’s 60m placed third in a field where athletes like Dániel Kiss, a future participant of the Doha World Championships was also present.

The 4x400 relay team from Debrecen finished third: it was an exciting experience for the young athletes to run in the team of Attila Zsivóczky-Pandel who is back practicing and preparing for this summer’s European Championships. Members of the team were: Ferenc Horváth, Attila Zsivóczky, Máté Koroknai, Tibor Koroknai.

The weekend brought other joyful moments as well. Bernadett Aradi placed 4th in 1500 meters, and got 5th in 800 meters. Gréta Kerekes and Levente Bodó qualified for the A finals in 60 meters, Krisztián Zilahi finished 6th in 200meters, just like Tibor Koroknai who ran under 50 seconds. Kálmán Csenge entered the 400m event and achieved finishing 9th in the senior field. Tibor Horváth qualified for the A final in 60m hurdles while Zsófia Zagyva ran in the B final.

The 4x400m women’s relay of DSC-SI (Renáta Soltész, Dóra Szarvas, Bernadett Aradi and Csenge Kálmán) finished 6th.

The athletes of Debrecen did well in the National Indoor Combined Championships as well. Attila Szabó, as anticipated, won among the seniors while Norbert Lesku, surprisingly, was victorious in the youths’ competition.

Renáta Soltész, suffering from an injury, got third among youth girls while the one year younger Dóra Szarvas finished fourth. Norbert Lesku’s best performances were achieved in the 60m hurdles and high jump. After finishing 4th two times in the Individual Championships, he wanted to prove, that he had recovered from last year’s illness and would like to win some championships this year.

High jumper Renáta Soltész one week before the Championships injured seriously on her arm. Still, she did not give up; being injured, she did 200 points more than a year before and got third. Dóra Szarvas completed the five disciplines with two big personal bests and finally placed 4th. Int he youths’ competition József Cservenyák got 7th while Zoltán Magyar finished in the 8th position.

The names of the coaches are worth to mention: Dömötör, Moldvai, Varga and Róbert Szabó all contributed to the success.