Dominik Illovszky
Hungarian sprinter (born 2002)
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Dominik Márk Illovszky (born 4 January 2002) is a Hungarian sprinter. He is a multiple-time national champion over 60 metres and 100 metres. He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
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| Nationality | Hungarian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 January 2002 Budapest, Hungary | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 60m 100m | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m: 6.52 (2026) 100m: 10.25 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
A member of Honvéd club in Budapest, he was capable of running 6.86 seconds for the 60 metres as a 15-year-old.[2] He was a silver medalist over 100 metres at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr.[3]
He won the Hungarian national 60 metres indoor title in 2022, with a personal best time of 6.63 seconds.[4]
He competed for Hungary at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he ran 6.73 seconds in his semi-final but did not proceed to the final.[5][6] He ran as part of the Hungarian 4x100 metre relay team at the 2023 European Team Championships and at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[7][8]
He ran 6.65 seconds for the 60 metres in Budapest in February 2025.[9] That month, he lowered his personal best to 6.61 seconds to win the Hungarian national 60m title.[10] He qualified for the semi-finals of the 60 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, finishing second in his heat in a personal best 6.58 seconds, with the same time as the winner, Jeremiah Azu.[11] He was subsequently selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China in March 2025, where he qualified for the semi-finals with a time of 6.63 seconds. In his semi-final he again ran 6.63 seconds, but did not progress through to the final.[12][13][14]
He won the Hungarian national 100 metres title in August 2025, and represented Hungary in the 100 metres at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Germany, where he was a finalist.[15][16]
Competing in Glasgow in January 2026, he again ran sub-6.60 times for the 60 metres.[17] The following week he ran a personal best at the Sparkassen Indoor Meeting Dortmund, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting, running 6.56 seconds. A few days later he ran a new national record of 6.52 in Belgrade.[18][19] He ran 6.57 to win the 60 metres title at the 2026 Hungarian Indoor Championships in Nyíregyháza.[20]
Selected for the 60 metres at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, he reached the semi-finals with a run of 6.58 seconds.[21][22]
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 100 metres – 10.25 (+0.1 m/s, Madrid 2025)
- 200 metres – 21.79 (+2.0 m/s, Miskolc 2022)
Indoor
- 60 metres – 6.52 (Belgrade 2026)
Personal life
Since childhood he has suffered from a rare autoimmune disease that only affects one-in-a-million people. His great uncle is Hungarian former footballer and Hungarian national team football coach Rudolf Illovszky.[23]