Attila Horváth

Attila Horváth competed for his entire career (1981-2001) with Haladás VSE. He already showed his discus throwing talent by winning the 1985 European Junior Championships. A year later, he finished fifth at the World Junior Championships. He achieved the greatest success of his career at the World Championships in Tokyo in 1991, when he won the bronze medal, winning the first world championship medal for Hungarian athletics. He also finished third at the 1991 Athletics Grand Prix series.

Horváth took part in two Olympics, placing 5th in Barcelona and 10th in Atlanta. In 1994 he finished in fourth at the World Championships, won bronze medal at the Goodwill Games and was elected as Hungarian Athlete of the Year. He was ranked in the world top 10 four times (1991-92, 1994-95), with a highest placing of #3 in 1991.

Between 1987 and 1999, he won individual national championships 19 times, 9 times summer outdoors (1987, 1990-97) and 10 times winter outdoors. In 1994, he threw a national record of 68.58 meters, which stood for eight years. Between January 1990 and June 1998 he was unbeaten at the national level. He died at the age of 53 from the effects of the coronavirus.

Personal Best: DT – 68.58 (1994).