Zita Szabó

Zita Szabó is a Hungarian triathlete born on 13 November 1975 in Karcag. She began as a swimmer and took up triathlon at a local school at the age of eleven, winning bronze at the 1991 European Youth Triathlon Championships and reaching the international junior level at the 1992 world championships in Huntsville, Alabama. After a national title in Szombathely she paused her career to study, earning a bachelor's degree in computer science, and returned in 1998 at the FISU World University Triathlon Championships in Kiel. An injury cost her a place at the 2004 Athens Games, but a strong 2008 World Cup result in Tiszaújváros qualified her for the Beijing Olympics, where she finished thirty-eighth in 2:06:46. She later won bronze at the 2009 European Cup in Karlovy Vary and silver at the African Cup in Pretoria.