The 53-year-old Hungarian ironman who swam, cycled and ran for 222 hours and won

Ferenc Szőnyi even got injured, but finally, he managed to win the DECAMANUSA New Orleans 2018, a kind of ironman contest containing 10 ultra-triathlons. Thus, he had to swim more than 38 kilometres, cycle 1,800 kilometres and run 420 kilometres. After crossing the finish line, he said that it was great to do so with the Hungarian flag.

Sports career started at the age of 43

It is quite unusual to start a sports career that late, but Mr Szőnyi did so, and he was successful already at the beginning: he won his first world championship ten years ago in Mexico. Since then, he has already run by the Darjeeling memorial of Sándor Kőrösi-Csoma, the Hungarian philologist, Orientalist and the author of the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar book. That time he

accomplished 480 km of run in the Himalaya successfully.

Last time he won the gold medal in Switzerland on a contest including five ultra-triathlons. As a result, he is the only one in the world who won all kinds of triathlon.

RTL Klub managed to talk to him after his latest triumph in New Orleans, USA – szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu reported. He told the TV channel that the unusual cold baulked accomplishing the contest and he even got injured on his left leg. However, he was delighted that he was successful.