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 in 2024 achieved a double clear at the CSIO in Šamorín, Slovakia on his best horse, JB Koronaőr and he also won the CSIO Grand Prix in Budapest. In 2025, he qualified for the Basel World Cup Final, where he finished 14th, which is the best indoor result ever achieved by a Hungarian rider. Two weeks before the Budapest CSIO, he rode a double clear round in the CSIO Nations Cup in Šamorín, then helped the Hungarian team to second place with a perfect performance in the jump-off.

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. 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 in 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 2024, he won the Grand Prix of the Count István Széchenyi Memorial in Budapest. This year, he finished third in the three-star Szilvásvárad Masters Grand Prix as the best Hungarian competitor and was a member of the Hungarian national team, finishing second in the CSIO Nations Cup in Šamorín.

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 the same year, 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 finished on the podium or among the runners-up in all three Grand Prix of the 2024 Hungarian international competitions 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. He is a member of the fifth-placed Hungarian team in Mannheim. He is a three-time Grand Prix winner in the National Riding Hall and came third in the CSIO Grand Prix in 2024. In 2025, he won the Szilvásvárad Masters World Cup competition.

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 converting 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 2024, 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 European and Hungarian jumping, particularly dedicated to supporting the Hungarian jumping sport.

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 of 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. The best Hungarian jump rider in 2022 and 2024. In 2025 he was placed in the CSIO Grand Prix in Mannheim and was a member of the Hungarian team that came second in the CSIO Nations Cup in Šamorín.

Reserve:

Tamás Mráz

His father having also been a show jumper. Tamás Mráz runs his own riding club where he works as a trainer, and his students regularly compete at national level. During his career, he has ridden clear rounds in the Hungarian children, juniors and young riders’ national team, and as a senior competitor he has proven himself successful in four-star competitions. This year, he was placed in CSI Grand Prix events in France and Italy, and was a member of the Hungarian national team that finished fifth at the CSIO in Mannheim.