Sarolta Monspart

Sarolta Monspart was a Hungarian orienteering competitor who in 1972 became the first non-Scandinavian female runner to win the World Orienteering Championships. She is considered the most successful orienteer in Hungary, with 14 national orienteering championships and six cross-country skiing championships, and she was the first European woman to run a marathon in under three hours. A serious tick-borne encephalitis ended her sporting career; she then became an advocate for healthy living among women, and in 2003 received a medal for lifetime merit from President Ferenc Mádl. She died in 2021.