Dominik Illovszky

Dominik Illovszky
At the 2025 Summer World University Games
Personal information
NationalityHungarian
Born (2002-01-04) 4 January 2002
Budapest, Hungary
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)
60m
100m
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m: 6.52 (2026)
100m: 10.25 (2025)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the  Hungary
European U18 Championships
2018 Győr 100 m

Dominik Márk Illovszky (born 4 January 2002) is a Hungarian sprinter. He is a multiple-time national champion over 60 metres and 100 metres. He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]

Biography

A member of Honvéd club in Budapest, he was capable of running 6.86 seconds for the 60 metres as a 15-year-old.[2] He was a silver medalist over 100 metres at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr.[3]

He won the Hungarian national 60 metres indoor title in 2022, with a personal best time of 6.63 seconds.[4]

He competed for Hungary at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he ran 6.73 seconds in his semi-final but did not proceed to the final.[5][6] He ran as part of the Hungarian 4x100 metre relay team at the 2023 European Team Championships and at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[7][8]

He ran 6.65 seconds for the 60 metres in Budapest in February 2025.[9] That month, he lowered his personal best to 6.61 seconds to win the Hungarian national 60m title.[10] He qualified for the semi-finals of the 60 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, finishing second in his heat in a personal best 6.58 seconds, with the same time as the winner, Jeremiah Azu.[11] He was subsequently selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China in March 2025, where he qualified for the semi-finals with a time of 6.63 seconds. In his semi-final he again ran 6.63 seconds, but did not progress through to the final.[12][13][14]

He won the Hungarian national 100 metres title in August 2025, and represented Hungary in the 100 metres at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Germany, where he was a finalist.[15][16]

Competing in Glasgow in January 2026, he again ran sub-6.60 times for the 60 metres.[17] The following week he ran a personal best at the Sparkassen Indoor Meeting Dortmund, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting, running 6.56 seconds. A few days later he ran a new national record of 6.52 in Belgrade.[18][19] He ran 6.57 to win the 60 metres title at the 2026 Hungarian Indoor Championships in Nyíregyháza.[20]

Selected for the 60 metres at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, he reached the semi-finals with a run of 6.58 seconds.[21][22]

Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

Personal life

Since childhood he has suffered from a rare autoimmune disease that only affects one-in-a-million people. His great uncle is Hungarian former footballer and Hungarian national team football coach Rudolf Illovszky.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Dominik Illovszky". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  2. ^ Juha, Paul (18 February 2017). ""I can walk, that's the point" - the 15-year-old Hungarian ran again". Origo.hu. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Győr European U18 Championships". World Athletics. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  4. ^ "Dominik Illovszky won the 60 meters at world championship level". Jochapress.hu. 26 February 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  5. ^ "EUROPEAN INDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS: DOMINIK ILLOVSZKY DID NOT REACH THE FINAL IN 60". Nemzeti Sport (in Hungarian). 4 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Two Hungarian sprinters reach the semi-finals at the European Indoor Athletics Championships". Origo.hu. 4 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  7. ^ "The 4x100 relay team, led by Dániel Szabó from Fehérvár, ran its best time of the year at the World Athletics Championships". fmc.hu. 26 August 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  8. ^ "The women's relay team takes first place with a national record, the track and field team continues to lead by a large margin at the European Championships". Sportal.blink.hu. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  9. ^ "Johanna Martin Sets European U20 Indoor 400m Record in Dortmund". European Athletics. 19 February 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  10. ^ "Boglárka Takács was only one hundredth of a second behind the national leader". Sportal.blink.hu. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  11. ^ "EUROPEAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS: HUNGARIANS SET PERSONAL BESTS, ILLOVSZKY ADVANCES IN 60 METERS". Eurosport. 8 March 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  12. ^ "Men's 60m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025". Watch Athletics. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  13. ^ "ATTILA MOLNÁR STARTED WITH A RACE WIN, ILLOVSZKY AND ENYINGI ALSO ADVANCED AT THE INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". Eurosport. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  14. ^ "World Indoor Athletics Championships: Thirteen Hungarians are traveling". felvidek.ma. 15 March 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  15. ^ "Hungarian Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  16. ^ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  17. ^ Broadbent, Chris (31 January 2026). "Minshull defeats Doom in Glasgow". European Athletics. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  18. ^ "World leads for Werro and Sarâboyukov in Belgrade". World Athletics. 11 February 2026. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  19. ^ Trapnell, Jasmine (8 February 2026). "Swoboda battles to 60m victory and Moe Berg dominates again in Dortmund". European Athletics. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  20. ^ "Hungarian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
  21. ^ "ELEVEN HUNGARIANS TO COMPETE AT THE WORLD INDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS". Nemzeti Sport. 11 March 2026. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  22. ^ Dennehy, Cathal (20 March 2026). "Bori Akinola heads trio of Irish athletes who advance to semi-finals at World Indoor Championships in Torun". Independent.ie. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
  23. ^ "Honvéd's young athlete is battling a rare and painful disease – This gives Dominik Illovszky strength". 28 February 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
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