Sarolta Kriszt

Sarolta Maria Kriszt is a Hungarian multi-event athlete. In 2024, she became Hungarian national champion in the 400 metres at the Hungarian Athletics Championships. She was s silver medalist in the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships and 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships.

Career

She is a member of MATE-GEAC athletics club where she is coached by Katalin Körmendy. In July 2022, Kriszt won silver in the heptathlon at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel finishing behind Croatian Jana Kosčak, at the age of 16 years-old.

In February 2023 in Budapest, she became the Hungarian national youth record holder in the indoor pentathlon and the 60 metres hurdles, running 8.48 seconds and achieving a tally of 4228 points to become junior national pentathlon champion. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. She was named in the Hungarian relay pool for the 4 x 400 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

She was one of three recipients selected for Szentkirályi Talent Program funding in June 2024. That month, at the age of 17 years-old she was the youngest member of the Hungarian team selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy. She ran in the women's relay at the Championships. Later that same month she won the 400 metres at the Hungarian Athletics Championships in Budapest. She competed in the heptathlon for Hungary at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024 but crashed-out in the first event, the 100 metres hurdles.

She finished in tenth place overall in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, on 1 June 2025. She won the silver medal behind Jana Koščak of Croatia in the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland in August 2025 with 6251 points.

She is from Gödöllő in Pest County, Budapest.