Marin Šarec

The 68th edition of Hanzekovic Memorial meeting registered in total five meeting records. But the biggest issue for the spectators was Sandra Perkovic and her back to winning ways after Diamond League finals. Up against the two women who finished ahead of her in the Belgian capital – Yaime Perez and Brazil’s Andressa de Morais […]

Olympic champion Ryan Crouser returned to winning ways at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Zagreb on Monday. He achieved 22.09 in fourth series and also last throw of 21.84 would be enough to win. “This is one of my favorite places to throw. Exciting and fun with lot of energy from the spectators and

The start lists of the 68th Hanžeković Memorial once again promise a spectacular competition in Mladost Stadium. Of course, the world’s best athletes will be led by Croatia’s best athlete Sandra Perković, the reigning Olympic, world and European champion.  “I’ve been here for 12 years. I am the favourite when you look at the whole

The shot put event is the highlight of the athletics season, and the start list of the 4th Ivan Ivančić Memorial, an overture to the Hanžeković Memorial, is in no way inferior to the world’s strongest competitions. New Zealand’s Tom Walsh, the reigning world champion, holds the record with a total of three wins in

Sandra Perković has created athletics history on Saturday night at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin. Perković won the gold medal with a throw of 67.62 metres to become the European champion for the fifth time in a row. She is now the first person to win five gold medals in a row at the

Pascale Martinot-Lagarde won at the European Championships in Berlin in an excellent 110m hurdles final, which was decided by two thousandths of a second! This is how much faster the French hurdler was than the silver medallist Sergey Shubenkov. Shubenkov, who had also won silver at last year’s World Championships in London, will have an

The IWCH Zagreb – Hanžeković Memorial, the oldest sporting event in Croatia, finally got its film version, as well. The event that started as a club duel between the Mladost and Dinamo Athletics Clubs, has been one of the world’s best and most highly regarded athletics meetings in the past decades. As it is said

New Zealand shot-put world champion Tom Walsh has racked up another title, taking out the IAAF World Challenge event in Zagreb on Tuesday morning (NZ time). The 25-year-old from Timaru had a best throw of 21.50m in the penultimate event of the season, beating out Australian Damien Birkinhead by 15cm. It was the third time

ENGLISH As expected, local star and meeting poster girl Sandra Perkovic dazzled at the 67th edition of the Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb on Tuesday (29). As with most of her appearances at this IAAF World Challenge meeting in recent years, expectations were high as Perkovic, a native of the Croatian capital and one of the

Neutral athlete Sergey Shubenkov powered his way to a third 110m hurdles victory in Zagreb’s signature event, clocking 13.12, his third fastest time of the season. Running second to Devon Allen of the US over the first half, the former world champion pulled away for good by the seventh barrier to secure his first victory