The Hungarian Team

Vince Jármy

Finished fifth at the 2015 European Youth Championships in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, and fourth individually at the 2016 European Championships in Ireland. He won a silver medal at the Buenos Aires Youth Olympics and was part of the third-placed Hungarian team in the FEI Nations Cup Final World Final in Opglabbeek, Belgium in 2019. At the age of 20, he had already won Grand Prix rounds in Bábolna and Budapest among senior riders. With his family-bred stallion JB Koronaőr, he finished among the leading riders at the World Young Horse Championships. He has also ridden several times in the Hungarian senior national team in the CSIOs organised in the National Riding Hall, and this June achieved a double clear at the CSIO in Šamorín, Slovakia on his best horse, JB Koronaőr.

András Kövy, Jnr.

Born into a true equestrian family, his brother and parents are also involved in equestrian sport. He is a professional rider to the core, a cornerstone of the team, and a rider of great ability.
He has ridden in the Nations Cup more than forty times and was part of the Hungarian winning team. He has participated in the European Championships in Rotterdam, Riesenbeck and Milan. He was the most successful Hungarian rider at the 2020 Olympic Qualification Team Event in Budapest and was a member of the third-placed team in Prague in 2023.
For nearly a decade, he was the Chef d’Equipe of the Hungarian national junior team and head of Talent, the Hungarian Junior Rider Development Program’s coaching corps. He is the owner of the Világosi Equestrian Centre in Balatonvilágos, Hungary, where he is one of the most prolific competition organisers in Hungary. In May of this year, he won the Grand Prix of the Count István Széchenyi Memorial in Budapest. His current best horses are Egano Van’t Wingerdhof Z, Accoton PS, and El Corlensky.

Gábor Szabó, Jnr.

He started competing at the age of twelve. In 2008 he joined Timpex in Nyíregyháza, one of the best private studs in Hungary, and his greatest successes were achieved with them.
In 2009, he won the semi-finals in a field of 100 competitors at the European Youth Championships in the Netherlands, and in 2010 he claimed gold at the young riders’ championship in Kiskunhalas. In 2011, he won the semi-finals in a 259-rider field at the World Championships for Young Horses on Timpex Centre. In 2013, he was a member of the Hungarian national team at the CSIO in Budapest, and finished ninth in the semi-finals of the European Championships in Denmark on Timpex Cabale. He is the hero of the CSIOs in Budapest: he won the Grand Prix in 2014 on Timpex Cent and in 2016 on Timpex Bölcsész. In 2016, he rode Timpex Wise against an Italian rider in the jump-off and accomplished a historic first victory for Hungary. In 2017, the pair qualified for the Jumping World Cup Finals in Omaha, where they rode to the final. They also did very well at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon, USA in September 2018.
Ranking number one multiple times in Hungary, he is currently one of the most successful Hungarian show jumpers this year. As a rider of the University Athletic Club of Debrecen, Hungary, he finished on the podium or among the runners-up in all three Grand Prix of the 2024 Hungarian International Championships on three different horses. He is a member of the Hungarian senior national team on his mare Mezőhegyes Chabala, owned by Mezőhegyes, the traditional Hungarian stud, on his own horse H-Secret By Boris, and on the Bábolna Grand Prix winner Xixo Borgia.

Ferenc Szentirmai

Born in Komárom, Szentirmai is a natural talent who can win on any horse, performing to his maximum ability. A former two-time Hungarian senior champion who, after changing to Ukrainian nationality, rode at the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics. Ferenc has competed in almost all the world’s prestigious show jumping events, for example in Rome, Hickstead and Le Baule. As a rider of the Hungarian National Equestrian and Sport Horse Breeding Programme, he changed to Hungarian colours and became the most successful rider of the Hungarian team that finished third at the Olympic qualification in Prague. In May, he won the World Cup in Szilvásvárad, Hungary on Quandro Blue PS and was placed in the CSI Grand Prix in Šamorín, Slovakia on his other horse, Final Message PS. As a competitor, but also as a horse dealer, trainer and manager, Szentirmai, who lives in Germany, is a leading figure of the European and Hungarian jumping sport, particularly dedicated to supporting Hungarian jumping sport. At the CSIO in Budapest, he will compete on two horses, Quandro Blue PS and Final Message PS, owned by Lovassport Kft.

Péter Szuhai

The 23-year-old rider is very fond of the National Riding Hall, where he won the Nations Cup as a child. He is a member of Diósgyőr VTK, the most successful show jumping club in Hungary. His uncle Gyula Szuhai and his father Péter Szuhai support him in his efforts to gain a place in the national team as a senior rider. He enrolled in the Hungarian National Equestrian and Sport Horse Breeding Programme, and after joining, his sporting career developed tremendously over the past two years, and has also earned him the title Rider of the Year. His family is involved in horse training and trading. With his current best horse, Casino Royal Z, he was a member of the all-time best team at the European Championships for Young Riders in Vilamoura, Portugal in 2022. Despite his young age, he was among the best individual European riders as a youth rider and as a senior.

Reserve:

Tamás Dömse

Tamás Dömse is one of the youngest members of the Hungarian senior national team. He was a member of the most successful team ever at the European Championship for Young Riders, and rode in the individual European Championships for Young Riders final. He has won the Grand Prix of the international show jumping competition of the Count István Széchenyi Memorial twice (2021, 2022). In Hungary he has won almost every Grand Prix on his bay gelding Conquistador, trained by himself and bred at Lewitz stud farm. He was the best Hungarian rider at the Szilvásvárad Masters in 2023. This year he won third place at the Stadl Paura round of the U25 World Championships on his stallion Chupa Chups PS, and in June he was a member of the senior team at the Nations Cup in Šamorín, Slovakia on Conquistador.