KESZTHELYI Rita

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
4	Women	2012	London, GBR

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2013	Barcelona, ESP
4	Women	2019	Gwangju, KOR
5	Women	2017	Budapest, HUN
7	Women	2009	Rome, ITA
9	Women	2015	Kazan, RUS
9	Women	2011	Shanghai, CHN

World League - Super Final

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2021	Athens, GRE
4	Women	2017	Shanghai, CHN
6	Women	2019	Budapest, HUN

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2020	Budapest, HUN
4	Women	2018	Barcelona, ESP

Ri (Facebook profile, 11 Jun 2015)

Athlete

Marketing, Sports Management - Budapest Business School, Hungary

Husband Peter Nagy

English, Hungarian

UVSE [Budapest, HUN] since 2014/15

Marton Benczur [club], HUN; Attila Biro [national], HUN

Driver, Wing (waterpolo.sportresult.com, 16 Jul 2017; waterpolo.hu, 01 Jul 2017)

Right (len.eu, 14 Jul 2018)

Her father Tibor has represented Hungary in water polo, and competed at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. (SportsDeskOnline, 13 Aug 2018; waterpolo.hu, 30 Dec 2014)

2009 for Hungary (Zagreb2010, 29 Aug 2010)

OB 1 [HUN] (flashscore.com, 24 Apr 2021)

She took up water polo at age 10. (bomalapitvany.hu, 21 Mar 2015)

She followed her father into the sport. "My parents never said it was mandatory for my brother and I to be water polo players. Initially the only goal was not to sit idle at home after school, but to play sports. The number one consideration was to learn to swim well. Then during a training camp I was asked to play water polo. I went to swimming and water polo training at the same time, but then my parents reasoned with me of how many more options there was in water polo." (origo.hu, 28 Dec 2020; utanpotlassport.hu, 29 Jan 2013)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (jochapress.hu, 09 May 2019)

Hungarian water polo players Daniel Varga and Denes Varga. (bomalapitvany.hu, 21 Mar 2015)

She was presented with the Top Scorer Award at the 2020 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, after she scored 28 goals. (wp2020budapest.com, 26 Jan 2020)

She was named on the All-Star team at the world championships in 2015, 2017 and 2019. (fina.org, 28 Jul 2017; waterpoloworld.com, 07 Aug 2015)

She was voted Hungarian Female Player of the Year six times. (vlv.hu 20 Dec 2016; vizipolo.hu, 15 Dec 2015; waterpolo.hu, 10 Dec 2014; sport.hir24.hu, 26 Dec 2013; delmagyar.hu, 02 Jan 2012; jochapress.hu, 09 May 2019)

She was named on the All-Star team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (24.hu, 19 Aug 2016)

She was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the 2014/15 OB 1 league in Hungary. (waterpolo.hu, 23 May 2015)

She named on the All-Star team at the 2014 World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation. (FINA, 17 Aug 2014)

In 2012 she received the Silver Cross of Merit of Hungary [civil division]. (sport.hir24.hu, 17 Sep 2012)

She received the 2009 Ivan Szalay Award, given to the best junior player of the year in Hungary. (vlv.hu, 29 Apr 2009)