Anikó Iglói

Eleöd Anikó’s hometown was a famous ski resort, and her parents were active sportsmen, members of the local Carpathian Association, so it is no wonder that Anikó was already skiing at the age of eight. In addition to skiing, she played tennis, swam, and rowed, but was also a passionate hiker, and car racing was not far from her. She started high school in her hometown, but she also studied in Bern, Switzerland, where she won the women’s championship of the Jungfraujoch international summer ski competition at the age of 17. In addition to sports, she was interested in art: she played on cello and guitar, wrote poems and short stories, and, after returning to Hungary in 1929, studied ceramics and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. At that time she was already competing in ski in the colors of BBTE. Between 1930 and 1948 she won a total of 19 individual and one team championship titles in skiing.

In 1939 Anikó finished 20th in the downhill at the World Championships in Zakopane. In 1940 she began competing in the colors of the Hungarian Ski Club. In 1943 she retired once and took over the coaching of the women’s and youth national teams.

After the war, she competed again and, at the age of almost 40, took part at the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics where she finished 22nd in slalom and 36th in downhill skiing. After the Olympics, she ended her active skiing career and went abroad to South America and later to Austria, where lived in Bregenz from the beginning of the 1960s and died there at the age of 94.