[2] Júlia Sebestyén began skating at the age of three, practicing on the outdoor ice rink in Tiszaújváros.

[4] In the 1998–1999 post-Olympic season, Sebestyen competed on both the Junior Grand Prix and at senior ISU championships.

During summers, she trained in Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, England and the United States due to lack of ice time in Hungary.

In 2004, she won the 2004 European Figure Skating Championships, becoming the first Hungarian woman to win that competition.

Sebestyén suffered a foot injury toward the end of the 2008–09 season, and was unable to compete at 2009 Worlds.

Sebestyén, now in her fourth Olympics, was chosen to be Hungary's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

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