BALLA Virag

World Championships

Year	Location	C1 200m	C2 200m	C2 500m
2019	Szeged, HUN	-	2	2
2018	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	5	-	2
2017	Racice, CZE	-	-	4

European Games

Year	Location	C2 500m
2019	Minsk, BLR	1

European Championships

Year	Location	C1 200m	C1 500m	C2 200m	C2 500m
2021	Poznan, POL	-	2	2	3
2018	Belgrade, SRB	3	-	1	1
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	-	-	-	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	C1 200m	C2 500m
2021	-	1 x 2nd
2019	-	1 x 1st
2018	2 x 5th	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
2017	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Duisburg, GER	1:51.587
1	2017	Canoe Single 200m	World Cup	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	46.862
1	2017	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	1:57.242
1	2017	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	1:59.599
2	2021	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	2:02.07
2	2018	Canoe Double 500m	World Championships	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	1:58.632
2	2017	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Belgrade, SRB	2:06.720
3	2018	Canoe Double 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	1:55.941
4	2017	Canoe Double 500m	World Championships	Racice, CZE	1:58.802
5	2018	Canoe Single 200m	World Championships	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	46.972
5	2018	Canoe Single 200m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	46.921
5	2017	Canoe Single 200m	World Cup	Belgrade, SRB	50.077

Legend
C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Reading, watching TV, listening to music, walking her dog. (canoeicf.com, 01 Jan 2019)

Athlete

Health Studies - Szechenyi Istvan University, Gyor, HUN

English, Hungarian

Graboplast Gyori VSE [Hungary]

Szabados Krisztian [club], HUN

Her younger brother Levente Balla has paddled internationally for Hungary. In canoe marathon, he won silver in the men's C2 event at the 2018 World Championships in Vila Verde, Portugal. In canoe sprint, he won silver in the men's C2 1000m junior event at the 2014 Junior and U23 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. (kisalfold.hu, 15 Aug 2014; SportsDeskOnline, 08 Feb 2020)

2014 for Hungary (canoeicf.com, 01 Jan 2019)

In 2011 she sustained a shoulder injury. (kisalfold.hu, 09 Sep 2018)

She began paddling in 2004 in Gyor, Hungary. She took up the sport competitively in 2011. (kisalfold.hu, 09 Sep 2018; canoeicf.com, 01 Jan 2019)

She got involved in the sport after a coach visited her primary school. (kisalfold.hu, 09 Sep 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (kisalfold.hu, 09 Sep 2020)

Hungarian sprint paddler Renata Csay. (canoeicf.com, 01 Jan 2019)

"Impossible does not exist." (canoeicf.com, 01 Jan 2019)

In 2019 she and her C2 crewmate Kincso Takacs were named Hungarian Female Canoeists of the Year by the Hungarian Canoe Federation. (Instagram profile, 11 Dec 2019; kajakkenusport.hu, 10 Dec 2019)

She was named 2018 Hungarian Female Canoeist of the Year by the Hungarian Canoe Federation. (canoe-europe.org, 20 Dec 2018)