2nd December 2012 05:33
The men's senior side will include Albert Minczer, one of their leading distance runners who competed in the 3000m steeplechase at this summer's Olympic Games in London.
Minczer, 26, will be at the helm of the Hungarian quintet of Barnabas Bene, Gabor Faldum, Gabor Jozsa and Gyorgy Horvath.
The track has very much been his domain with a series of consistent top 20 finishes since he was 14th in the 2000m steeplechase at the World Youth Championships in Sherbooke, Canada, in 2003.
Two years later he was on the podium, finishing second at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Kaunas with a fine run of 8:45.82 in the 3000m steeplechase.
He did not make the final in London and warmed up for these European Athletics Championships with a run of 70:02 in the Budapest Half-marathon in September.
Along with the senior side, Hungary will have men's teams in the under-23 and junior races and junior girls while Krisztina Papp and Zsofia Erdelyi compete in the women's senior event Reka Czebei in the under-23s.
Their men's under-23 team is made up of Sandor Szabo, Aron Dani, Daniel Kallay, Gaspar Csere and Dariusz Farkas and junior boys with Csaba Matko, Istvan Szogi, Istvan Kiraly, Aron Toth, Sandor Szabo and Benjamin Kovacs.
The Junior girls squad is Krisztina Koszas, Dorottya Varga, Mercesz Marton and Lili Vaczi.
Poland's challenge in Budapest will be from a team of 10 - with only one senior runner.
That is Blazej Brzezinski, in the men's team, who has shown his distance credentials with a marathon best of 2:14.01.
In the under-23 events, Marek Kowalski is their male representative and Aleksandra Brzezinska in the women while two junior girls will run - Katarzyna Rutkowska and Anna Wojcik.
Their only team will be junior boys with Szymon Kulka, Andrzej Rogiewicz, Marcin …»ychski, Pawe…‚ Szostak and Dominik Czaja.