Luca Szűcs

Luca Szűcs (born 20 September 2002) is a Hungarian sabre fencer. She is a three-time world champion and won the women's team sabre events at the World Championships in 2022 and 2023. Szűcs is also a two-time junior world champion and three-time junior European champion. She represented Hungary at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Career Szűcs got inspired to start fencing around age 10, after seeing the fencers' "shiny outfits and amazingly fast moves" at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. Her club team is BVSC-Zugló in Budapest, where her coaches are István Bódy, and his son, Benjámin Bódy, while on the national level she is coached by Gábor Gárdos. That same year, she won her second European junior team sabre title and placed second in the team sabre event at the Junior World Championships. Szűcs won the gold medal in the team sabre event at the 2023 World Championships, 2023 Junior World Championships and 2023 European Junior Championships. She represented Hungary in the women's sabre event and women's team sabre event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, where she reached the quarterfinals and finished sixth respectively.

Medal record World Championship