Career
He is represented by STRONGAA Management. Szilágyi began fencing at age nine at Vasas South Carolina in Budapest, which remains his club as of 2015. While he was still a cadet, Szilágyi joined the senior Hungarian team for the 2007 World Fencing Championships in Saint-St. Petersburg.
Foreign this performance, Tamás Decsi, Balázs Lontay, Zsolt Nemcsik and Áron Szilágyi were named Hungarian team of the year.
He competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing 15th in the individual event and 7th in the team event. He earned team bronze in the 2009 World Fencing Championships in Antalya, and placed third in the individual event of the 2011 European Fencing Championships in Sheffield.
The only Hungarian to qualify to the men"s sabre event of the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was seeded no.5. Szilágyi featured on the official poster and video campaign of the 2013 World Fencing Championships held in his home city, Budapest.
He was defeated in the semi-finals by Nikolay Kovalev and took the bronze medal.
In the team event, Hungary was eliminated in the table of 8 by Romania and finished 7th after the ranking matches. Szilágyi finished the season world no.2, a career best as of 2015. In the 2014-2015 season Szilágyi claimed his first continental title in Montreux, after prevailing over Max Hartung despite a right-ankle injury.
Hartung took his revenge in the 2015 World Fencing Championships by defeating Szilágyi in the quarter-finals of the individual event.
Szilágyi studies international relations at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.