Filip Mihaljević achieved another excellent result at the Diamond League meeting in Doha. Croatia’s best shot putter finished second in the final attempt with a throw of 20.89 behind former world champion Tom Walsh, who threw 21.63. Filip’s longest throw in Doha was 21.57 metres. The experimental rules, according to which the winner is decided […]
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Filip Mihaljević won the shot put event at the Golden Spike Athletics Meeting in Ostrava. Croatian record holder threw 21.58, which is the seasonal world seventh performance. Filip won besting Poland’s Michal Haratyk (21.30), while Sweden’s Wictor Petersson finished third (20.90). This is an excellent opening of the season, which will peak at the Tokyo
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The 71st edition of the annual Zagreb Meeting – Boris Hanžeković Memorial, the oldest sporting event in Croatia and one of the world’s strongest athletics meetings, will take place in Zagreb’s Mladost Stadium on 14 September 2021. Held under the title The Ivan Ivančić Memorial since 2014, the shot put event, which regularly features the
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The Management Board of the Dinamo-Zrinjevac Athletics Club appointed Robert Šola, Editor-in-Chief of the Sportske novosti daily sports newspaper, as Meeting Director of the Boris Hanžeković Memorial, the oldest sporting event in Croatia and one of the world’s best and most esteemed athletics meetings. Natko Bošnjak was appointed the Project Manager of the meeting. The
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After 12 years of being the Meeting Director of Croatia’s most long-lived event, the Boris Hanžeković Memorial, which had its 70th edition in 2020, Ivana Brkljačić said goodbye to it, while remaining a friend of the event. The Dinamo-Zrinjevac Athletics Club, organizer of the meeting, which is part of the prestigious Continental Tour Gold series,
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High jump champion Blanka Vlašić has announced the end of her career. In her great career, Blanka has twice been an outdoor world champion. She won silver at the Beijing Olympics and bronze at the Rio Games. She has the second-best result of all time and is the Croatian record holder with a jump of
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With Croatia’s current pandemic restrictions limiting attendance to just 700 spectators and fields impacted by travel restrictions, the meeting wasn’t quite the 70th anniversary celebration organisers had planned, but several performances exceeded expectations to contribute to another memorable evening at the Sportpark Mladost. Stahl, the World discus throw champion, returned to his winning
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Photo: Renato Brandjolica/Hanžeković Memorial Ryan Crouser put in fantastic performance at the 6th Ivan Ivančić Memorial in Zagreb. The Olympic champion from Rio de Janeiro threw 22.74 in his third attempt and smashed his own meeting record of 22:28, which he had held since 2016! Crouser threw over 22 metres four times (22.10, 22.74, 22.59,
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Photo: Renato Brandjolica/Hanžeković Memorial The 70th Hanžeković Memorial is taking place in specific circumstances and with many limitations brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. However, not even such circumstances have stopped some of the world’s best athletes from coming to Zagreb. Nicola McDermott, Australian high jumper of Croatian origin, currently world’s number four, will be
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Photo: Renato Brandjolica/Hanzeković Memorial The Zagreb Meeting shot put event, titled the Ivan Ivančić Memorial since 2015, has been marked by the victories and meeting records set by Tom Walsh and Ryan Crouser. However, reigning world champion Joe Kovacs told the organizers last year to also draw the 23m mark in the field this year.
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