Athlete Profile: Robert Kasza

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Russia’s Ilia Frolov is toast of Moscow with victory at Kremlin Cup
Jun 18th Jun, 13
The home crowd were left delighted as Ilia Frolov claimed the Men’s trophy at the Kremlin Cup this weekend. The experienced 29-year-old was neck and neck with several athletes throughout the day, including his compatriot Aleksandr Lesun, but his composure in the combined made the difference as he triumphed in style to take top spot.

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Ready and raring to go at UIPM World #4 Budapest
May 9th May, 13
The stunning city of Budapest in Hungary will from today be hosting some of the world’s top pentathletes in a competition that is sure to set the pulses racing. With the teams having arrived for this UIPM 2013 World Cup #4, which lasts from 9 to 13 May, the press conference was held at Pasaréti Honvéd Lovarda, the venue for the Final’s riding and combined events, and once again it attracted a host of national journalists.

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Marosi takes sensational gold in Men’s Final at World Cup #2 Rio
Mar 23rd Mar, 13
Hungary’s Adam Marosi confirmed he is the man in form this season with gold at the UIPM World Cup #2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 28-year-old, who came second at World Cup #1 in Palm Springs last month, was near flawless in the shooting as he came from sixth position to win the combined event in style at the Deodoro Zone course.

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In-form Kasza unstoppable in fence
Mar 23rd Mar, 13
The Hungarian Robert Kasza was peerless in the fencing event, defeating 28 of his 35 opponents in spectacular style and amassing 1072 points in the process. The 26-year was unrelenting as he claimed victory after victory to power past the rest of the field. It was a master class by the European Championships silver medallist as he gave himself a 72 point lead over Russia’s Serguei Karyakin before the swim.

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World #1 and 2012 Olympic Medallists all through to Friday’s Final
Feb 20th Feb, 13
For the first time on the world level, the new format Combined Event took place  now consisting of 4 laps of 800 meters running interspersed by 4 shooting series (still of 5 shots) and a new time out limit for shooting, dropping from 70 to 50 seconds. Olympic Champion David Svoboda (CZE) said "I am glad for the change; for the last 4 years had 3 shooting series; now shooting is more important. My team is very strong in shooting so we are happy to have this extra shooting round."

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Lesun leads Group A and Kasza Group B for the Combined Event
Feb 20th Feb, 13
Jospeh Evans (GBR) produced the fastest swim time from Group A in a time of 2:01.77 a second faster than Maksim Kustov (RUS) Winner of the fencing Aleksander Lesun (RUS) had a disappointing swim finishing 11th, however this was still enough to keep him at the top of the leaders board going into the combined event. The World #1 will start 2 seconds ahead of Alvaro Sandoval (MEX) who finished 2nd in the fence & 6th in the swim. Daniel Thomas (AUT) and Samuel Curry (GBR) will both start 12 seconds behind Lesun.   In Group B, Hungarian Robert Kasza’s win in the Fencing with 17 bouts puts him 9 seconds ahead Omar El Geziry who came  3rd in the Fence with 16 bouts. Joint 1st in the Fence was Alexander Nobis (GER) whilst Jianli Guo of China will start the Combined 13 seconds behind Kasza thanks to his 5th place in the Fencing following the 4th fastest swim    

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Kasza & Gyenesei Start 2013 as Winners in Hungary
Feb 3rd Feb, 13
Robert Kasza (HUN) has brushed off the disappointment of his poor London 2012, by defending his Hungarian Indoor title today, in the first ever event combined event with 4 runs and shoots.

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Svoboda starts 1st in Combined after a solid ride
Aug 11th Aug, 12
Svoboda starts combined event in the lead after clear ride in the show jumping.

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