Ferenc Győri

Ferenc Győri is a Hungarian ultramarathon runner, geographer and university lecturer, born in Kiskunfélegyháza in 1964. As a junior he excelled at the half marathon, and in 1995 he won the 230 kilometre ultramarathon from Nyíregyháza to Budapest. He has run four 100 kilometre races in under seven hours, won three international 24 hour races and a 12 hour event, and took the European championship title at the IAU 24 Hour European Championships in Courcon, France, in 1996. He served as liaison between the International Association of Ultrarunners and the Hungarian Athletics Association from 1996 to 2002 and joined the IAU Technical Committee in 1998. He entered the Hungarian Ultrarunners Hall of Fame in 2016.