Olympics, Los Angeles 2028

Let's cheer for the two best ILCA sailors, Mária Érdi and Jonatán Vadnai who makes campaign for Los Angeles 2028 Olympics!

Mária Érdi

Mária Érdi (MVM SE) started sailing at the age of 14 and a year later, in 2013, she already won a gold medal at the Byte CII Class Youth World Championship. With this result, she qualified for the Youth Olympics. In the same year she won a silver medal at the European Championship.

In 2014, she won a silver medal in the Byte class and a bronze medal in the Laser 4.7 class at the European Youth Championships. At the Youth Laser Radial World Championship, she was first among the 17-year-olds and second among the under-19s. She took 11th place at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

In 2015, she became both World and European Champion in the U19 Laser Radial class.

In April 2016, she earned an Olympic quota, finishing 14th in her first Olympics.

In 2017, she placed 20th in the World Championship of the Laser Radial Women's Olympic boat class.

In 2018, she was fifth in the European Championship and 8th in the World Championship in the Laser Radial boat class competition, earning a quota for the 2020 Olympics.

In 2019, she finished ninth at the European Championships and 21st at the World Championships. In August, she won a bronze medal in Laser Radial at the Pre-Olympics held in Enoshima.

She finished 13th in the Laser Radial class at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

She finished fifth at the 2022 World Championship and eighth at the European Championship.

In March 2023, she won a bronze medal at the European Championships and in August won the World Championship title. In 2023, she was elected Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year and won the title of Hungarian Female Sailor of the Year for the 11th time.

At the 2024 World Championships, she was forced to abandon the race due to a technical fault on the charter boat, but still finished in a respectable seventh place. And the following month, she won the European Championship. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, she started as a medal contender in the leading position of the World Ranking, but her long-recurring back injury recurred, she fought heroically throughout the Games in great pain and under the influence of painkillers, even in this condition she was able to win two races in the races held in the weaker wind region. In the end, she finished the five-ring games in 14th place.

Best results

- 2013 - 2016; she collected four gold and one silver medals at the Youth World Championships, further one gold, two silver and one bronze medals at the European Youth Championships in the Laser 4.7, Laser Radial and Byte CII boat classes included in the program of the Youth Olympics.

- Finished 11th at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games.

- She earned an Olympic quota at the age of 17 and finished the 2016 Rio Olympics in 14th place.

- She became World Champion in the U21 age group in the Olympic boat class in 2017.
- In 2019, she won a bronze medal at the Pre-Olympics in Enoshima.

- She already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with 8th place in the World Championship at the 2020 World Championships.

- She managed to get 13th place at the Tokyo Olympics.

- In 2023, Hungarian history was written by Mári, when Hungary qualified for the Paris Olympics with her first World Championship title in the Laser/ILCA Olympic boat class!
- In the same year, she won a bronze medal at the European Championship.

- In 2023, another historic success in the sport of Hungarian sailing is attached to her name, she was chosen as the Hungarian Female Athlete of the Year.

- Less than one year later after the Worlds bullet, she also won the European Championship title in 2024.

- In the same year, she started in the leading position of the World Rankings as potential medal contender at the Paris Olympics, where she won two races and finished in 14th place despite a serious injury.

- She won the Women's Sailor of the Year award 11 times until the age of 25.

- Multiple Hungarian National Champion.

Jonatán Vadnai

Jonatán Vadnai (BYC) sat in a boat for the first time at the age of 6, under the influence of his father, Péter Vadnai, a former Hungarian National Team competitor. Together with his older brother, Benjamin Vadnai, who is also a sailor, he trained and embarked on the path to elite sports under the management of his parents. Jonatán's first major international achievement came at the 2013 ILCA 4 World Championship, where he won a silver medal and became World Champion in his age group (U16). These youth and junior results came in a row. He won a bronze medal at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympics. In 2016, he became U21 World Champion. By the end of his junior career, he won 20 age-group European and World Cup medals. The next big step in his career was the gold medal of the World Cup in Genoa in 2019, and in 2021 he won the bronze medal of the European Championship. After that, he fought at the top of every world competition, in 2022 he finished 4th at the European Championship, and at the World Championship in Mexico he made history as a Hungarian, finishing in the top 10 for the first time, in 9th place in Laser/ ILCA 7 Olympic class. In 2023, he earned an Olympic quota for Hungary at the World Championships, and then won a silver medal at the European Championships in early 2024. By placing in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Hungarian sports history was written, finishing in 4th place, which no one in the boat class, in the world's most popular ILCA 7 Olympic class, has yet achieved. This is currently the third best Hungarian Olympic sailing result of all time.