Marin Šarec

The 110m hurdles event, just like the whole Zagreb Meeting, was named after Boris Hanžeković, the best Croatian athlete before WWII, who was killed during an escape attempt from the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1945. Boris Hanžeković peaked at the 1938 Balkan Games in Belgrade. He was not even 22 years old then and he […]

The 100m races always draw special attention of the audience at the Zagreb Meeting. This year’s meeting will also include some of the world’s best sprinters. Michael Rodgers and Ramil Guliyev, who know the track in Mladost Stadium very well, have confirmed their appearance. Rodgers is a three-time winner of the Zagreb Meeting, his personal

The women’s high jump will certainly be one of the best events at the 70th Zagreb Meeting, part of the WA Continental Tour Gold series. Two world’s top ranked high jumpers are coming to Zagreb, Ukraine’s Yuliya Levchenko and Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the only two female high jumpers who cleared 200 cm this year. Levchenko is

Judging by the preliminary start list, the 800m race could be one of the highlights of the 70th Zagreb Meeting, which belongs to the WA Continental Tour Gold series now. Leading the start list is the current world silver medallist in this event and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s best athlete Amel Tuka, who won over a

The COVID-19 has also attacked athletics, like everything else, but the 70th Zagreb Meeting – WA Continental Tour Gold will survive in the circumstances that will certainly go down in history as peculiar. The basis of everything is caution – by all for all. It’s the least we can do in this moment to help

The shot put event at Zagreb’s Fountains on 14 September will for sure attract special attention of the athletics fans throughout the world. It is because the start list of the 6th Ivan Ivančić Memorial includes Olympic champion Ryan Crouser and world champion Joe Kovacs. At last year’s press conference, Joe Kovacs told the organizers

It’s less than three weeks until the 70th Zagreb Meeting and the start lists contain an increasing number of names that guarantee excellent competition in Mladost Stadium. The javelin throw will certainly be one of the highlights of the meeting, as the reigning Olympic champion Sara Kolak will share her home turf with Christin Hussong,

Foto: worldathletics.org The world’s best discus thrower, Sweden’s Daniel Ståhl, has confirmed his participation in the 70th Hanžeković Memorial. Ståhl is the reigning world champion from the 2019 Doha Championships, currently leading the world ranking with a fantastic 71.37 m throw from Sollentuna on 10 August. Only a day later, he won with a 69.23m

Great recognition for athletics and Croatian sports came from Monte Carlo at the presentation of the Continental Tour, where the Hanžeković Memorial was included in the Golden Category! Today in Monte Carlo, the popular Zagreb Hanžeković Memorial, one of the largest Croatian sports events, received another great international recognition by entering the category of the

Sandra Perkovic may not have been her usual dominant self so far this year, but the home crowd at the Hanzekovic Memorial  cheered the world and Olympic discus champion on to a 67.78m victory. German champion Kristin Pudenz led for the first two rounds after opening with 63.25m. Perkovic started her series with 62.18m, but