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A great triple jump competition is expected at the Zagreb Meeting

At the 76th Boris Hanžeković Memorial we will see a triple jump competition the likes of which we have never seen in Zagreb before. The list is headed by one of the biggest sensations of athletics competitions at the Olympic Games in Paris, Thea Lafond. The athlete from Dominica, a Caribbean country with a population […]

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The best hammer throwers come to Zagreb Meeting in a great shape

Yann Chaussinand won the Los Angeles meet on Saturday with 82.44 ahead of Mihajlo Kohan, who threw the hammer 82.38 meters The hammer throw competition at last year’s Boris Hanžeković Memorial was excellent, and this year will undoubtedly be even better. Yann Chaussinand won in Zagreb last year with 81.91 meters, ahead of the Olympic

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Great Elaine Thompson-Herah challenges the oldest Zagreb Meeting record

At the 76th Boris Hanžeković Memorial, Elaine Thompson-Herah will compete in the 100 m race. This fantastic Jamaican is a five-time Olympic champion and the only female runner in history to have won gold medals in both the 100m and 200m at two consecutive Olympic Games. Moreover, only one male athlete in the history of

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Two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo will be running in Zagreb

The list of world champions and Olympic winners who have confirmed their attendance at the 76th Boris Hanžeković Memorial is growing, and two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo has joined them, too. This great athlete from the Bahamas won Olympic gold medals in the 400 meters at the 2016 and 2021 Olympics. She won gold in

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After a convincing victory in Shanghai, Kristjan Čeh is participation to the Zagreb Meeting

After a more than convincing victory at the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, Kristjan Čeh has confirmed his arrival at the 76th Boris Hanžeković Memorial too. Čeh won the discus throw in Shanghai with a throw of 70.58 meters, surpassing his closest rivals by more than three meters, and also setting a meeting record. Last

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Devynne Charlton in great form attacks the meeting record in Zagreb

After Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Cordell Tinch, Joe Kovacs and Tom Walsh, Devynne Charlton has confirmed her participation in the 76th Boris Hanžeković Memorial too. At the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai Devynne Charlton set a personal best in the 100m hurdles in Shanghai and took second place with 12.38 in a race in which all the

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76 Boris Hanžeković Memorial: Mahuchikh, Tinch, Kovacs, Walsh…

Olympic champion and world high jump record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR), reigning world 110m hurdles champion Cordell Tinch (USA), double world shot put champion Joe Kovacs (USA), 2026 world indoor shot put champion Tom Walsh (NZL), 2026 World Indoor 800m finalist Marino Bloudek (CRO), World U20 and European U20 heptathlon champion and World U20 long jump champion Roko Farkaš among a great field of athletes who will

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Croatia’s oldest sports event awarded World Athletics Heritage Plaque

24 May 2025 – The Boris Hanžeković Memorial, Zagreb (1951) – World Athletics Continental Gold meeting – which is celebrating its 75th edition this week, has been awarded the World Athletics Heritage Plaque in the category of ‘Competition’. The meeting and its 110m hurdles memorial race were named after hurdler Boris Hanžeković, one of Croatia’s

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