Liza Pusztai

Liza Pusztai (born 11 May 2001)^[1] is a Hungarian sabre fencer. She is a two-time world champion in the team sabre and a two-time European Championships silver and bronze medallist. Pusztai represented Hungary at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics. She is also a junior world champion and two-time Youth Olympics gold medalist, having won the girls' sabre event and the mixed team event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Career

Pusztai won her first senior international medal at the 2017 European Championships in Tbilisi, where she won a bronze medal in the women's sabre event.^[4] In 2018, she won gold medals in the girls' sabre event and the mixed team event at the Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, and the gold medal in the women's sabre event at the Hungarian Fencing Championships held in Budapest. In 2019, she won the silver medal in the women's team sabre event at the European Championships in Düsseldorf.^[5]

In 2021, Pusztai competed in the women's sabre event and the women's team sabre event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, where she was eliminated in the round of 16 and placed eight with the Hungarian team respectively.^[6] She won the gold medal in the women's team sabre event at the 2022 World Championships in Cairo.^[7] Pusztai and the Hungarian team retained their world title at the 2023 World Championships in Milan.^[8] In 2024, she won the silver medal in the women's sabre event at the 2024 European Championships held in Basel.^[4]

Pusztai competed in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, reaching the round of 16 in the women's sabre event and placing sixth in the women's team sabre event.^[9]

Date	Location	Event	Position
2022/07/23	Cairo, Egypt	Team Women's Sabre	1st
2023/07/30	Milan, Italy	Team Women's Sabre	1st

Date	Location	Event	Position
2017/06/12	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd
2019/06/20	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	2nd
2023/06/30	Kraków, Poland	Team Women's Sabre	3rd
2024/06/20	Basel, Switzerland	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd

Date	Location	Event	Position
2019/05/24	Moscow, Russia	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd

Date	Location	Event	Position
2018/03/16	Athens, Greece	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd
2019/03/08	Athens, Greece	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd
2020/03/06	Athens, Greece	Individual Women's Sabre	2nd
2021/03/12	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd

^ ^a ^b "Liza Pusztai". FIE. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
^ Pavitt, Michael (9 October 2018). "Rowing and sport climbing titles won as hosts earn first medals at Buenos Aires 2018". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^ Etchells, Daniel (7 March 2020). "Two-time Olympic champions Szilágyi and Zagunis claim FIE Sabre World Cup wins". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Three Medals Won at the European Fencing Championships". Hungary Today. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
^ "Women's team sabre" (PDF). 2019 European Fencing Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 September 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ "Fencing Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
^ "For the First Time, Hungarian Women's Saber Team Wins World Fencing Championships – PHOTOS". Hungary Today. 25 July 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
^ "Women's Fencing Team Retains World Championship Title in Milan". Hungary Today. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
^ "Győzelemmel kezdett Pusztai Liza és Szűcs Luca is női kardban" [Liza Pusztai and Luca Szűcs also started with a win in women's saber]. Eurosport. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.