August 2013

A promotional event was held at Preradović Square in Zagreb’s centre to announce the 2013 Zagreb IAAF World Challenge – 63rd Hanžeković Memorial, which will take place at Mladost Sports Park on Tuesday, 3 September, from 6 pm on. Anybody in the square could try the shot put and high jump, or participate in prize […]

Only a day after he threw his javelin to the season’s best of 89.03 m at the meeting in Bad Köstritz, Germany, Finland’s Tero Pitkämäki confirmed his participation in the Zagreb Meeting! Maybe he wants to throw 90 metres in Zagreb on 3 September!? This is how the javelin throw, which has not been on

Australia’s Sally Pearson, Olympic 100m hurdles Champion, is coming back to Zagreb. In 2011, she won here in 12.68. Two years later, on 3 September, she will challenge Olga Shishigina’s meeting record of 12.60 against USA’s Dawn Harper, Kellie Wells and Queen Harrison. Sally Pearson (born on 19 September 1986) is the 2012 Olympic Champion

Tickets for the 63rd Hanžeković Memorial – IAAF Zagreb World Challenge went on sale in the Mladost Sports Park today, Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 4 pm. Judging by the first few hours, there is great interest in Croatia’s oldest sporting event again. Olympic and world champion Sandra Perković and numerous global athletics stars, who

„You can win whatever you want, but Olympic gold is only mine“, this is what Tomasz Majewski (born on 30 September 1981) could say to his opponents and he wouldn’t exaggerate. The Polish shot putter is the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion from Beijing and London and only the third shot putter in history who

The javelin throw has not been part of the Zagreb Meeting program since the Hanžeković Memorial returned to the Mladost Stadium and joined the group of the world’s strongest meetings in 1999. That event has an additional disadvantage –  the meeting record of 85.05 from 1991 was set by Radoman Šćekić with the old javelin,

The 400m event at the 2013 Zagreb IAAF World Challenge will feature a junior star and a hurdler. Luguelín Santos of the Dominican Republic (born on 12 November 1993) is one of the best and most exciting athletes in the 400m today. The best – because of the medals he has won in the past

The 100m hurdles race at the 2013 Zagreb Meeting will again feature the Olympic Champion from Beijing, USA’s Dawn Harper (born on 13 May 1984). Harper won in Zagreb in 2008 and 2009 and finished second in 2011, behind World Champion and future Olympic Champion, Australia’s Sally Pearson. It is well-known that Dawn Harper performs

Sandra Perković is in the training camp in Medulin. She called us with new information regarding her training and health condition. The world’s best female discus thrower says:  „I am currently doing physical therapy in the Peharec Polyclinic in Pula. I started feeling pain in the peritoneum area after the World Championships. I reduced the

A walk around the Mladost Stadium and a press conference at the finish line marked the beginning of the final campaign of the 2013 Zagreb IAAF World Challenge – the 63rd Hanžeković Memorial. As Meeting Director Ivana Brkljačić said, around 40 medallists from the recent World Championships in Moscow are expected to come, and the