Dominik Illovszky

Dominik Illovszky

Personal information
Nationality	Hungarian
Born	(2002-01-04) 4 January 2002 (age 23) 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 selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China in March 2025. 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]}

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. ^[15]

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. "Honvéd's young athlete is battling a rare and painful disease – This gives Dominik Illovszky strength". 28 February 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2025.