János Bogár

János Bogár is a Hungarian ultramarathon runner, born in Miskolc in 1964, who has set and held national records in nearly all the Hungarian ultramarathon events he has entered, including the 100 kilometres and the 24 hour run. He is best known for six victories at the Vienna to Budapest Supermarathon, the most prestigious stage race in Central Europe in the 1990s, and also won the 100 km of Madrid seven times and a 245 kilometre race from Athens to Sparta in 1991. He took the 24 hour European Championship title in Szeged in 1994. In 2007 he came close to beating Yiannis Kouros in a 212 kilometre race around Lake Balaton, and he entered the Hungarian Ultrarunners Hall of Fame in 2016.