Hungarian Athletics Championships
Most recent season or competition: 2012 Hungarian Athletics Championships

Sport	Track and field
Founder	Hungarian Athletics Association
First season	1896
Director	Balázs Csillag
President	Sándor Juhász

The Hungarian Athletics Championships (Hungarian: Atlétikai Magyar Bajnokság, Országos Bajnokság, magyar bajnokság) are an annual outdoor track and field competition organized and supervised by the Hungarian Athletics Association, which serves as the Hungarian national championships for the sport.

History

The history of competitive athletics in Hungary dates back to 1875, when the Magyar Athletikai Club (MAC) was founded and organized the first public athletics event in the country. MAC continued to hold compeititons in the next decades, and with the growing popularity of the sport they were joined by newly founded clubs which had their own contests and gave out the Hungarian champion title. These, however, were not officially recognized national championships yet and the rules were also not standardized.^[1]

The turning point came in 1896, when Hungary celebrated its millennium and as part of the Millenary Feast sports events of great dimensions were held in Budapest in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I, attracting over 5,000 athletes.^[1] The competition turned out to be a complete success, which gave a big boost to the athletics. A year later, on 21 March 1897 the Hungarian Athletics Association (HAA) was created and two races of the 1896 championship – the 100 yard and the 1 mile event – were approved as official competitions, making Alajos Szokolyi and František Horn the first Hungarian Athletics Championships winners, respectively. Adding long jump and shot put in 1897, and 120 yard hurdles and 440 yard in 1901 to the events' list, MAC continued to organize the championships until 1903, subsequently taken over by the HAA.^[2]

Events

Men

100 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1500 m
5000 m
10000 m
110 m hurdles
400 m hurdles
3000 m steeplechase
4 × 100 m relay
4 × 400 m relay
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put
Discus throw
Hammer throw
Javelin throw

Women

100 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1500 m
5000 m
10000 m
100 m hurdles
400 m hurdles
3000 m steeplechase
4 × 100 m relay
4 × 400 m relay
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put
Discus throw
Hammer throw
Javelin throw

Venues

1896 – Budapest
1897 – Budapest
1898 – Budapest
1899 – Budapest
1900 – Budapest
1901 – Budapest
1902 – Budapest
1903 – Budapest
1904 – Budapest
1905 – Budapest
1906 – Budapest
1907 – Budapest
1908 – Budapest
1909 – Budapest
1910 – Budapest
1911 – Budapest
1912 – Budapest
1913 – Budapest
1914 – Budapest
1915 – Budapest
1916 – Budapest
1917 – Budapest
1918 – Budapest
1919 – Budapest
1920 – Budapest
1921 – Budapest
1922 – Budapest
1923 – Budapest
1924 – Budapest
1925 – Budapest
1926 – Budapest
1927 – Budapest
1928 – Budapest
1929 – Budapest
1930 – Budapest
1931 – Budapest
1932 – Budapest
1933 – Budapest
1934 – Budapest
1935 – Budapest
1936 – Budapest
1937 – Budapest
1938 – Budapest
1939 – Budapest
1940 – Budapest
1941 – Budapest
1942 – Budapest
1943 – Budapest
1944 – Budapest
1945 – Budapest
1946 – Budapest
1947 – Budapest
1948 – Budapest
1949 – Budapest
1950 – Budapest
1951 – Budapest
1952 – Budapest
1953 – Budapest
1954 – Budapest
1955 – Budapest
1956 – Budapest
1957 – Budapest
1958 – Budapest
1959 – Budapest
1960 – Budapest
1961 – Budapest
1962 – Budapest
1963 – Budapest
1964 – Budapest
1965 – Budapest
1966 – Budapest
1967 – Budapest
1968 – Budapest
1969 – Budapest
1970 – Budapest
1971 – Budapest
1972 – Budapest
1973 – Budapest
1974 – Budapest
1975 – Budapest
1976 – Budapest
1977 – Budapest
1978 – Budapest
1979 – Budapest
1980 – Budapest
1981 – Budapest
1982 – Budapest
1983 – Budapest
1984 – Budapest
1985 – Budapest
1986 – Budapest
1987 – Budapest
1988 – Budapest
1989 – Budapest
1990 – Debrecen
1991 – Budapest
1992 – Budapest
1993 – Budapest
1994 – Budapest
1995 – Budapest
1996 – Budapest
1997 – Budapest
1998 – Budapest
1999 – Budapest
2000 – Budapest
2001 – Budapest
2002 – Budapest
2003 – Budapest
2004 – Budapest
2005 – Budapest
2006 – Budapest
2007 – Bregyó-köz Athletics Centre, Székesfehérvár
2008 – Budapest
2009 – Budapest
2010 – Budapest
2011 – Athletics Center, Szekszárd
2012 – Athletics Center, Szekszárd
2013 – Budapest
2014 – Bregyó-köz Athletics Centre, Székesfehérvár
2015 – Bregyó-köz Athletics Centre, Székesfehérvár
2016 – Bregyó-köz Athletics Centre, Székesfehérvár
2017 – Bregyó-köz Athletics Centre, Székesfehérvár
2018 – Bregyó-köz Athletics Centre, Székesfehérvár
2019 – Bregyó-köz Athletics Centre, Székesfehérvár
2020 – Lantos Mihály Sportközpont, Budapest
2021 – Gyulai István Athletic Stadium, Debrecen
2022 – Lantos Mihály Sportközpont, Budapest
2023 – National Athletics Centre, Budapest

Championships records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete/Team	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
Shot put	20.56 m NR	Szilárd Kiss	26 July 2002	2002 Championships	Debrecen
5000 m walk (track)	19:32.59 NR	Máté Helebrandt	8 July 2023	2023 Championships	Budapest	^[3]
4×800 m relay	7:20.6 h NR	Ferencvárosi TC János Hrenek Imre Ötvös Imre Deák Nagy Béla Horváth	29 May 1977	1977 Championships	Budapest	^[4]
4×1500 m relay	15:09.3 h NR	Tatabányai Bányász SC Gábor Molnár János Liczul István Szalai László Zöld	25 September 1982	1982 Championships	Budapest	^[4]

Women

Event	Record	Athlete/Team	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
200 m	23.06 (+0.5 m/s) NR	Irén Orosz	29 July 1981	1981 Championships	Budapest
100 m hurdles	12.72 (-0.1 m/s)	Luca Kozák	8 July 2023	2023 Championships	Budapest	^[5]
4×800 m relay	8:35.69 NR	Újpesti Dózsa Sport Club Márta Gombos Heléna Barócsi Andrea Bartakovics Katalin Rácz	29 May 1988	1988 Championships	Budapest	^[6]

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