{"id":3766,"date":"2022-08-05T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyulaimemorial.hu\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2022-08-05T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:50:20","slug":"a-record-number-of-hungarians-will-compete-in-the-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyulaimemorial.hu\/en\/news\/a-record-number-of-hungarians-will-compete-in-the-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"A record number of Hungarians will compete in the Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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46 domestic athletes can compete in front of a full house on 8 August at the Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial – Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix. Here are the athletes to cheer for on Monday at the venue or through the M4 Sport broadcast!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two-time Hungarian champion of the men’s 100 meters, Dominik Illovszky, who qualified for the World Indoor Championships at just 20-year-old in March, will compete in the fastest man\u2019s race again. His compatriot, M\u00e1rk Pap was even faster than him this year. His 10.25 seconds time was last bettered by a Hungarian sprinter in 2004. However, in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r, we will see him running at 200 meters, not 100 meters.<\/p>\n

The same is true for Tam\u00e1s M\u00e1t\u00e9 who can look forward to the competition as the best national athlete in the half-lap race. Like the above mentioned athletes, Zolt\u00e1n Wahl, another member of the young sprinter generation, won the U23 national championship barely a month ago. Attila Moln\u00e1r, who is also only 20 years old, will run in the 400 meters on Monday night, In this event he was undefeated in the national championships in 2021 and 2022 respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 800 meters, five Hungarian athletes with great skills will also be in the field. Bal\u00e1zs Vindics can look forward to the Memorial as the Hungarian indoor track record holder, a four-time outdoor and nine-time indoor national champion and former indoor WCH competitor. D\u00e1niel Huller, who also qualified for the European Championships in Munich, ran an U23 Hungarian record of 1:45.53 a few weeks ago in P\u00e1pa, showing his talent again after a period full of injuries.<\/p>\n

Gerg\u0151 Kiss became the Hungarian champion in the 800 m in a huge race at the end of June. Now we will cheer for him, as well as his Veszpr\u00e9m teammate, Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00f6gi whose main event, the 1500 meters will not be organized this time so he will also start in the 800 m. M\u00e1t\u00e9 Egy\u00fcd will be a pacemaker.<\/p>\n

In the 110-meter hurdles we will see all three of our international level competitors. Vald\u00f3 Sz\u0171cs, B\u00e1lint Szeles and D\u00e1niel Eszes will compete against two-time world champion, Grant Holloway. In discus throw, J\u00e1nos Husz\u00e1k and R\u00f3bert Szikszai can tune in to the European Championships with opponents such as the three most recent world champions: Kristjan Ceh, Daniel Stahl and Andrius Gudzius.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest-level field awaits our athletes in the high jump and pole vault. In the former, besides P\u00e9ter Bakosi and Csaba Horv\u00e1th, who share the 2022 Hungarian championships title, we can also find D\u00e1niel Jankovics and Gergely T\u00f6r\u00f6k on the entry list. Marcell Nagy can jump in the same field with the biggest world star of the sport, Armand Duplantis who, along with Renaud Lavillenie and Thiago Braz, will strengthen the camp of Olympic champions in what we hope will be a competition as long as possible.<\/p>\n

As Bence Hal\u00e1sz, a club member of 80-meter throwers, said after winning his fifth Hungarian championships title in a row, the level of hammer throw in Hungary has not been as high as this summer. Olympic champions Kriszti\u00e1n Pars and D\u00e1niel R\u00e1ba will compete as European Champs qualifiers. Bence P\u00e1sztor, Don\u00e1t Varga and G\u00e1bor Czeller will also participate in the event.<\/p>\n

What Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100 meters and Shericka Jackson in the 200 meters mean to the Jamaicans, Bogl\u00e1rka Tak\u00e1cs and Jusztina Cs\u00f3ti mean to us in the shortest sprint events. Both can gain valuable results on Monday. The same is true for Bianka Bartha-K\u00e9ri, who is warming up for the European Championships in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r in the 800 meters. She wants to run the best possible time in the two-lap distance along with Anna Ferencz and H\u00e9di Heffner. The youngster Regina Mohai can help them achieving it, as she will be the rabbit in the competition.<\/p>\n

Certainly, Luca Koz\u00e1k, establishing new Hungarian record at the Memorial in 2020, will not be left out of the participants in the 100-meter hurdles, just as her opponent, Gr\u00e9ta Kerekes who will also run with the best. We are eagerly waiting to see what kind of performance Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Kendra Harrison or Nia Ali will bring out of them. In the 400-meter steeplechase the Hungarian champion and U23 national record holder Janka Moln\u00e1r will also be on the field.<\/p>\n

In addition to the men’s hammer throw, the women’s long jump will be the other event in which we can support six Hungarians. Besides Anaszt\u00e1zia Nguyen, Diana Lesti, and Petra Farkas, who are considered the Top 3 of the last 1-2 years, X\u00e9nia Krizs\u00e1n, preparing for the European Championship\u2019s heptathlon, and Klaudia Endr\u00e9sz, who has jumped a personal best again after a long time, will also be able to show themselves in front of the home crowd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, Bori R\u00f3zsahegyi, who was born in 2007 and won a gold medal in the most successful Hungarian EYOF performance of all time, can jump for the first time in such a strong international field. Previously, at the age of 15, not many athletes could jump to 6.16 meters so it will definitely be worth following her performance.<\/p>\n

R\u00e9ka Gyur\u00e1tz, who won seven consecutive championship titles in the hammer throw, proved with her best of 71,57 meters this year that she can achieve a very good result in Munich as well. Not only she but also her teammate from Szombathely, Zsanett N\u00e9meth, with new PB of 66,73 meters, can enter the throwing circle in excellent form.<\/p>\n

R\u00e9ka Szil\u00e1gyi, Ang\u00e9la Moravcsik and Fanni K\u00f6v\u00e9r will be the ones we will see for the first time on this year\u2019s Memorial. On Monday at 12:45 pm the women’s javelin throw will start the extremely exciting program, in which there will be a lot of national athletes to cheer for until the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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