Government spokesman inaugurates Olympic skeet shooter’s memorial
Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary for international communication and relations, on Tuesday inaugurated a memorial to Diana Igaly, an Olympic gold winner skeet shooter who died at the age of 56 last year.
Kovacs said that ahead of her death, Igaly had talked of setting up a national sport shooting centre, “and her concept was in line with that of the government”. The centre would support the sport, train young athletes and cover defence and educational tasks, he said.
“The tasks her life had led up to were left here, and tasked posterity with turning her ideas into reality,” he said.
Igaly won an Olympic bronze at the Syndey Olympics, at her discipline’s debut at the games, and a gold in 2004 in Athens. She won world championships in 1998 and 2002 and the European championship in 1989 in solo events.
