Fanni Rapai

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Fanni Rapai
Personal information
NationalityHungarian
Born (2000-01-07) 7 January 2000 (age 25)
Sport
Sport Athletics
EventSprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)200m: 24.16 (Budapest, 2023)
400m: 52.73 (Budapest, 2023)

Fanni Rapai (born 7 January 2000) is a Hungarian track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. She represented her country at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the 400 metres. That year, she was part of a team that ran a new Hungarian indoor national record in the women's 4 x 400 meters relay. [1]

Career

Rapai is a member of Ikarus BSE in Budapest. [2] In March 2018, she won a bronze medal at the Hungarian junior indoor championships in the 400 metres. [3]

In February 2022, Rapai ran an indoor 400 metres personal best when she ran a time of 55.22 seconds in Budapest. [4] Rapai ran as part of the Hungarian 4 x 400 metres relay team at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, in August 2022. [5]

In January 2023, Rapai along with Evelin Nádházy, Sára Mátó, and Janka Molnár, ran a new indoor national record in the 4 x 400 meters, running 3:37.11 in Nyíregyháza. [6]

In June 2023, she was part of the Hungary team that participated at the 2023 European Team Championships in Poland, and achieved promotion by winning Division Two. [7] In July 2023, she ran a new 400 metres personal best time of 53.32 seconds at the 2023 Hungarian Athletics Championships. [8] She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023 where she ran a new personal best of 52.73 seconds for the 400 metres but did not proceed to the semi-final. [9]

She ran as part of the Hungarian mixed 4 x 400m relay team that competed at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2024. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Fanni Rapai". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "The competitors of Ikarus are also starting at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest". bp16.hu. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  3. ↑ Budai, Tamas (2 March 2018). "9 medals - Youth and Junior Indoor Championships". Ikarusatletika.hu. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Budai, Tamas (February 1, 2022). "Indoor Budapest Championships with personal bests". Ikarusatletika.hu. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
  5. ↑ "European Championship". Sportoljvelynk.Veszpremben.hu. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "Dupla világkupa győzelemmel és országos csúcsokkal kezdte az évet a MATE-GEAC". Agrargazdasag.uni-mate.hu. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "The Hungarian team is among the best again". Magyarnemzet.hu. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  8. ↑ Smythe, Steve (July 11, 2023). "World-leading sprints in US and Jamaican champs – overseas round up". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "Rapai ran a personal best, but was eliminated in the 400 meters". Nemzetisport.hu. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Mixed 4x400m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
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