Nikolász Iliász (born 3 November 1991) is a Hungarian

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fencer, team bronze medallist at the 2009 World Championships and silver team medallist at the 2013 European Championships.

Career

Iliász first tried different sports and took up fencing in 2002 at

Vasas SC Vasas SC () is a Hungarian sports club based in Budapest. Members of the ''Hungarian Union of Iron Workers'' founded the club as ''Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja'', the "Sport Club of Iron and Metal Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club ...

in Budapest on the suggestion of his grandmother, who had practiced it. His first coach was György Gerevich, son of seven-time Olympic champion

Aladár Gerevich Aladár Gerevich (16 March 1910 – 14 May 1991) was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games. Biography Gerevich was the first athlete to win t ...

, who also trained Olympic champion Áron Szilágyi. In 2007 he joined the cadet national team, with which he won a gold medal at the Cadet European Championships in Novi Sad and a silver medal at the Cadet European Championships in Prag. The following year he earned an individual gold medal both at the Cadet and Junior European Championships, as well as a team gold and an individual bronze at the Junior World Championships in Acireale. He became Junior World champion in Baku in 2010 after defeating Germany's Sebastian Schroedter. Iliász joined the senior national team as reserve in the 2009. With them he took part to the

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in Antalya. Hungary prevailed over Belarus in the quarter-finals, but lost to Romania in the semi-finals. They overcame Russia by a single hit and came away with a bronze medal. In the 2009–10 season he made his breakthrough with three bronze medals in the Budapest Grand Prix and the Warsaw and Isla de Margarita World Cups. At the 2010 World Championships in Paris Iliász reached the table of 16 after defeating No.3 seed Gu Bon-gil, but he lost to Russia's Veniamin Reshetnikov and finished 13th. He closed the season No.14 in World rankings. For this performance and his Junior World title he was named best male junior athlete of the year by the Hungarian National Institute for Sport (Nemzeti Sportintézet). The following seasons proved disappointing and Iliász was dropped from the national team. He was selected again in 2013 for the

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in Zagreb. Hungary saw off Germany and Ukraine, but yielded to Italy in the final and came away with a silver medal. Iliász is a student at

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in ...

in Budapest.

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at the European Fencing Confederation {{DEFAULTSORT:Iliasz, Nikolas 1991 births Living people Hungarian male sabre fencers World Fencing Championships medalists 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade