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The start list of the 72nd Boris Hanžeković Memorial – WA Continental Tour Gold meeting guarantees that numerous meeting records will be seriously threatened during the three days of competition. The 200-meter athlete’s race also guarantees a true sprinting spectacle, as the biggest sprinting teenage sensation – Erriyon Knighton – is on the starting list. […]

Last year’s winner, World Silver Medallist Marvin Bracy from USA and the fastest African ever Ferdinand Omanyala from Kenya will challenge Usain Bolt’s 100 m Meeting Record of 9.85 set in 2011. Both Bracy and Omanyala have season’s best of 9.85 but they won’t be the only ones in a rush for the fastest race

Ryan Crouser defended his Olympic shot put title. The three-time winner and meeting record holder of the Boris Hanžeković Memorial won at the Tokyo Olympics with a throw of 23.30 metres, which is the second-best result of all time. Already before the final, Crouser confirmed his participation in the 71st Boris Hanžeković Memorial, so we

Sandra Perković finished fourth in the women’s discus throw final at the Tokyo Olympics. The two-time Olympic champion threw farthest on her third attempt, when her discus travelled 65.01 metres. That very good throw was preceded by a throw of 62.53 on her first attempt and a foul on the second. This was followed by

The monograph titled 70th Zagreb Meeting – Hanžeković Memorial was presented in Zagreb. It is a chronicle of Croatia’s oldest sporting event and one of the world’s best athletics meetings. The monograph chronologically follows the growth of the Boris Hanžeković Memorial from a duel between the athletics clubs of Dinamo and Mladost to this day,

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

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

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

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

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,