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Géza Imre

Athletes · Fencing · milestone at age 22 ·T2 Field-leading

Milestone (age 22)

Won Olympic bronze in individual épée at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics at age 22, followed by World Championship team gold and European Championship team gold in 1998 at age 23, all before age 26.

Imre began fencing in Budapest, winning Hungarian team championship bronze in 1991 at age 16 and junior European silver in 1992 and 1993. He won the Hungarian individual national championship in 1992 at age 17, and won Universiade team gold in 1995 before his Olympic bronze in 1996. He fenced for Újpest, then Budapest SE, then Budapest Honvéd from 1996.

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Starting point

Born in Budapest, Hungary, a global center for fencing; family background not documented in reviewed sources.

Current position (2025)

Retired from competitive fencing in 2017 after a career spanning five Olympics; works in sports administration in Budapest.

How this path compounded

01 Starting advantages

8/24 starting-position score

Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Direct domain exposure, Frontier geography.

Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.

Cohort percentile: 51

02 Built or converted leverage

13/25 multiplying-capacity score

Strongest observed levers:Domain proximity, Started serious reps before 20, Prior reps.

Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.

Cohort percentile: 80

03 Compounding trajectory

7 documented steps

The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.

Milestone at age 22

04 Observed career standing

T2 · Field-leading

Dominant figure at the top of a field. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Géza Imre's worth or future potential.

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Question four · where did the leverage come from?

Géza Imre's leverage provenance

Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.

Started serious reps before 201/1

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Rare early tools (1/2)Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Domain proximity2/2

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Direct domain exposure (2/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Prior reps2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Rare early tools (1/2)Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Scarce skill depth2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Rare early tools (1/2)Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Elite ecosystem network2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Frontier geography (1/2)

Concentration intensity2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)

Complementary team1/2

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Structural wave / timing1/3

Externalmedium confidence

A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.

Frontier geography (1/2)

This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Géza Imre's outcome attributable to any origin.

Luck is not a leftover score.

Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.

Within Athletes, Géza Imre's starting-advantage total is at the 51th percentile. Separately, their built or converted leverage total is at the 80th percentile. Other T2 profiles average 7.9 / 24 starting advantage and 12.3 / 25 leverage. Similar scores appear in other tiers, so these figures describe positioning—not a cause.

Trajectory

1992 · age 17
Won Hungarian individual national championship
Junior European Championship silver.
1995 · age 21
Won Universiade team gold and World Championship team bronze.
1996 · age 22
Won Olympic bronze in individual épée
The Atlanta Olympics.
1998 · age 23
Won World Championship team gold and European Championship team gold.
2004 · age 30
Won Olympic silver in team épée
The Athens Olympics.
2015 · age 41
Won World Championship individual gold in men's épée in Moscow.
2016 · age 42
Won Olympic silver and bronze at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
His fifth Olympic appearance.

Primary leverage engine

Early specialization

Early specialization / prior reps

Secondary engine

Network / capital

Built/converted leverage

13 / 25

evidence: Medium

Built or converted leverage

Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.

Started serious reps before 20

1/1

Prior reps

2/3

Scarce skill depth

2/3

Native distribution

0/3

Elite ecosystem network

2/3

Complementary team

1/2

Structural wave / timing

1/3

Concentration intensity

2/3

Capital safety

0/2

Domain proximity

2/2

Starting-advantage scores (0–2 each)

Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."

Family financial platform

0/2

Parent / family domain

0/2

Inherited audience / network

0/2

Elite institution pipeline

2/2

Frontier geography

1/2

Rare early tools

1/2

Dedicated mentor / coach

1/2

Exceptional peer / cofounder

0/2

Early online platform

0/2

Direct domain exposure

2/2

Prodigy / innate ability

1/2

Adversity / constraint catalyst

0/2

Family context

Born in Budapest, Hungary; married to Kökény Beatrix, a European champion handball player. Family background beyond this not documented in reviewed sources.

Parent / family domain

Not documented in reviewed sources.

Archetype & tags

Elite performance pipelineHungarian fencing traditionBudapest clubsjunior European silvernational champion at 17

Evidence summary

Imre grew up in Budapest, a global center for épée fencing, and won the Hungarian national championship at 17 in 1992. He progressed through junior European silver medals (1992, 1993) and Universiade gold (1995) before winning Olympic bronze at 22 in 1996. The Hungarian fencing pipeline, with elite clubs like Újpest and Budapest Honvéd, provided direct domain immersion and high-quality training, though family background is undocumented.

advantage confidence: Medium · source count: 3 · audit: not_independently_audited · status: subagent_researched_beta

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