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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

    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

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,

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

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.

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