Sarolta Monspart
Sarolta Monspart ( born November 17, 1944 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian former marathon runner and orientation.
Monspart 1972 was the first non -Scandinavian world champion in orienteering. In Czechoslovak Staré Splavy she won before Pirjo Seppä and Brigitta Swedish Larsson. Two years earlier she had with the Hungarian Season in which beside her still ran Magda Horvath and Ágnes Hegedus, won the silver medal. At the World Championships in 1976 in the Scottish Aviemore she was in a relay with Irish Rostas and Magdolna Kovacs third parties. They also won the multi - stages competitive O- rings in Sweden. In 1978 she finished after 16 years of her career in the Hungarian national team after a tick bite had triggered an encephalitis.
National championship in Hungary Monspart won 14 league titles in orienteering and six titles in cross-country skiing. She was also a pioneer of ski orienteering in Hungary.
Monspart also was the first European woman who ran a marathon in under three hours. She won on October 29, 1972 Budapest Marathon in 2:59:53,2 h in 1976 and 1977 they repeated their victories with times of 2:48:59 2:48:22,2 h and h With its 1972 established time she was in the annual ranking for a total of the fourth fastest woman behind the U.S. women Cheryl Flanagan, Teri Anderson and Nina Kuscsik.
In 1967 she completed her studies in Budapest and then worked first as a primary school teacher. In the 1980s, she was team captain of the national Orienteering Federation and from 1997 to 1999 vice-president of the World Federation IOF.