András Szatmári (born 3 February 1993) is a Hungarian right-handed sabre fencer, 2018 team European champion, 2017 individual world champion, and 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist.
Career Szatmári took up fencing to follow the steps of his father, who fenced at Vasas SC. His first coach was György Gerevich, son of seven-time Olympic fencer Aladár Gerevich, who also trained Áron Szilágyi and Csanád Gémesi. Szatmári was Junior European Champion and U23 European Championship in 2012 and won the silver medal in the 2013 Junior World Championships in Poreč.
He reached the quarter-finals in the 2013 World Championships in home city Budapest, where he was defeated by Russia's Nikolay Kovalev, who eventually took the silver medal. He was part of the Hungarian team that reached the semi-finals at the 2014 World Championships in Kazan, lost to South Korea, but defeated Russia to earn the bronze medal.
Medal record Olympic Games YearLocationEventPosition2021 Tokyo, JapanTeam Men's Sabre3rd2024 Paris, FranceTeam Men's Sabre2nd
World Championship YearLocationEventPosition2014 Kazan, RussiaTeam Men's Sabre3rd2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTeam Men's Sabre2nd2017 Leipzig, GermanyIndividual Men's Sabre1st2017 Leipzig, GermanyTeam Men's Sabre2nd2018 Wuxi, ChinaTeam Men's Sabre3rd2019 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Men's Sabre2nd2019 Budapest, HungaryTeam Men's Sabre2nd2022 Cairo, EgyptTeam Men's Sabre2nd
European Championship YearLocationEventPosition2015 Montreux, SwitzerlandTeam Men's Sabre3rd2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam Men's Sabre3rd2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaTeam Men's Sabre1st2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyTeam Men's Sabre2nd2022 Antalya, TurkeyTeam Men's Sabre1st2023 Plovdiv, BulgariaIndividual Men's Sabre2nd
Grand Prix DateLocationEventPosition15 December 2017 Cancún, MexicoIndividual Men's Sabre3rd15 January 2023 Tunis, TunisiaIndividual Men's Sabre3rd
World Cup DateLocationEventPosition12 February 2016 Győr, HungaryIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2 March 2017 Padua, ItalyIndividual Men's Sabre1st19 May 2017 Madrid, SpainIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2 February 2018 Padua, ItalyIndividual Men's Sabre3rd12 February 2023 Warsaw, PolandTeam Men's Sabre2nd3 April 2023 Padua, ItalyTeam Men's Sabre1st
Awards Hungarian Fencer of the Year: 2017
Orders and special awards Hungarian Cross of Merit – Gold Cross (2021)
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