March 20, 2022 - Croatian athlete Filip Mihaljević took fourth place in the shot put final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, throwing a distance of 21.83 meters.

The 27-year-old from Livno threw 21.51 in the first series, 21.05 in the second, made an error in the third but went on to throw 21.83 meters in the fourth attempt. In the last series, Mihaljević reached 21.81 meters.

Filip threw a centimeter shorter than his record which was not enough for a medal, because the three medal winners threw over 22 meters.

A big surprise was made by the Brazilian Darlan Romani (22.53), who broke the 26-victory winning streak of the ruler of this discipline, American Ryan Crouser (22.44), and took the gold. The bronze medalist was New Zealander Tom Walsh (22.31).

Mihaljević entered the competition with the third-best result this season and the indoor record (21.84). The Croatian shot put record holder won the last Croatian medal at the indoor World Championships - he was bronze in 2016 in Portland at his very first senior world championships and threw 20.87 meters, which was his personal best.

Croatian athlete Ivana Lončarek did not manage to place among the 24 hurdlers who will compete in the 60m hurdles semifinals. Lončarek was fourth in the second qualifying group with a time of 8.19 seconds, and for direct placement, she should have been among the top three.

After the competitions in all six qualifying groups were over, it turned out that Lončarek's result was the 28th time in total, which was not enough to be among the semifinalists. She missed the semifinals by two hundredths.

If she had managed to repeat her best result from this season (8.11), Lončarek would have qualified for the semifinals without any difficulties.

The World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade were held from March 18 to 20, 2022, at the Štark Arena. 

Source: HRT

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August 11, 2019 - World champion discus thrower Sandra Perković celebrated at the European Athletics Team Championships Second League in Varaždin on Saturday, throwing 68.58 meters, which is her longest this season.

Thus, Croatia is sixth place after the first day with 149 points, while Estonia leads with 185 points, reports HRT.

Perković threw 59.85 meters in the first of her four attempts at the competition, but in the second attempt, she hit a respectable and unreachable 68.58, which is the longest shot in the history of the Second League competition, the third in the world this season, and the longest in Europe. In the remaining two attempts, Perković crossed the line, but was the only Croatian to celebrate on the first day in Varaždin.

Filip Mihaljević was second in the shot-put with an excellent 21.03 meters, confirming good form ahead of the World Cup in Doha. In this discipline, the best was Bertemes from Luxemburg, who achieved 21.64 meters. Sanjin Šimić came in second in the long jump with 7.63 meters, 15 centimeters less than the Latvian winner.

Anamarija Kožul finished third in the hammer throw with 64.79 meters, while Ida Šimunčić also finished third in the 400 hurdles with a time of 58.66 seconds and was close to her personal record. Lucia Pokos finished the 100 meters in 10th with a time of 12.36 seconds, and Lana Juriša finished eighth in the pole vault with a jump of 3.65 meters.

Ivona Zemunik finished sixth in the 800 meters and broke her personal record (2:08.45), and Marija Ivanković was sixth in the triple jump with 12.81 meters. Katarina Vukančićfinished ninth in the 3000 meters (9:56.81), Kristina Dudek came fifth in the 400 meters (54.72), and Sandra Šrut placed eighth in the 3000 hurdles with a time of 11:33.57 minutes.

Zvonimir  Ivašković finished fifth in the 100 meters with 10.84 seconds, and Mateo Parlov was seventh with 52.47 seconds in the 400 hurdles. Bartul Bašić was fifth in the javelin with 65.17 meters and Daniel Ivaničić finished eighth in the 1500 meters with 3: 59.80 minutes. Mateo Ružić was fourth in the 400 meters with 47.43 seconds, Filip Mrčić was seventh in the high jump with 2.06 meters, and Petar Bratulić was eighth in the 5000 meters with a personal record of 14:52.09 minutes.

The Croatian women's 4x100 meters relay finished ninth (45.91), while the men's relay finished with 41.20 seconds in eighth place.

Teams from Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovenia and Croatia take part in the Second League competition. Only the top team from Varaždin goes to moves to a higher rank, while the last five fall into the lower league. The second and final day is scheduled for Sunday.

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Croatia is bringing home eight medals from the European Games in Minsk, held from June 21 to 30, 2019.

After exactly ten competitive days at the Dinamo Stadium in Minsk, the second European Games came to an end, reports HRT on June 30, 2019.

Our Croatian representatives are returning home with eight medals, of which two are gold, one is silver and five are bronze.

Croatia’s last chance to win a medal came from wrestler Ivan Huklek, who unfortunately remained one step away from the podium. 

Namely, Huklek was stopped in his last hurdle to a medal. After losing in the semifinal on Saturday to Azerbaijani Islam Abbasov in the 87kg category, he lost the third-place fight on Sunday to Hungarian Viktor Lorincz with a score of 7-1.

Thus, the Croatian delegation returns from Minsk with eight medals won. Croatia’s two gold medals were won by Lucija Babić in the sambo and Ivan Kvesić in the 84 kg category in karate. Ivan's brother Anđelo won the silver in the heavyweight category. Croatia's bronze medals were won by boxers Marko Milun and Toni Filipi, judoist Barbara Matić, table tennis player Tomislav Pucar, and shooter Mario Vavro.

With eight medals, Croatia took 28th place at the European Games this summer. 

The most successful athletes in Mink were from Russia who counted 109 medals - with 44 gold, 23 silver, and 42 bronze medals. Second place was secured by Belarus, who won 24 gold and a total of 69 medals, while in third is Ukraine who won 15 gold medals and 50 medals in total. 

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The closing ceremony on Sunday featured all of the athletic participants, and martial artist Ivan Kvesić, who won one of Croatia's gold medals, proudly carried the Croatian flag.

Medals by Country

1. Russia 44 23 42 109 

2. Belarus 24 16 29 69

3. Ukraine 15 17 18 50 

4. Italy 12 15 13 40 

5. The Netherlands 9 13 7 29 

6. Germany 7 6 12 26 

7. Georgia 6 10 14 30 

8. France 6 9 13 28 

9. United Kingdom 6 9 8 23 

10. Azerbaijan 5 9 13 27 

11. Armenia 5 3 3 11 

12. Spain 5 2 6 13 

13. Hungary 4 6 9 19 

14. Slovenia 4 1 1 6 

14. Belgium 4 1 1 6 

16. Bulgaria 3 7 8 18 

17 Portugal 3 6 6 15 

18. Switzerland 3 3 4 10 

19. Israel 3 3 1 7 

20 Greece 3 2 4 9 

28 CROATIA 2 1 5 8

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