Dominik Illovszky

Dominik Illovszky

Personal information
Nationality	Hungarian
Born	(2002-01-04) 4 January 2002 (age 24) Budapest, Hungary
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	60m 100m
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	60m: 6.58 (2025) 100m: 10.25 (2025)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing the   Hungary European U18 Championships 2018 Győr 100 m

Dominik 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]

Career

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]

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 10.25 (+0.1 m/s, Madrid 2025)
• 200 metres – 21.79 (+2.0 m/s, Miskolc 2022)

Indoor

• 60 metres – 6.58 (Apeldoorn 2025)

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. ^[18]

References

1. "Dominik Illovszky". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
2. Juha, Paul (February 18, 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 Jan 2026.
16. "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. Retrieved 31 Jan 2026.
17. Broadbent, Chris (31 Jan 2026). "Minshull defeats Doom in Glasgow". European Athletics. Retrieved 31 Jan 2026.
18. "Honvéd's young athlete is battling a rare and painful disease – This gives Dominik Illovszky strength". 28 February 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2025.