Two Hungarian victories and new national record in Budapest (GALLERY)

The Hungarian Grand Prix’s meet in Budapest at the Lantos Mihály Sport Centre started with Benedek Doma’s 67.48 season best in the men’s hammer throw, which he went on to improve to 70.46 metres.

Later, as was expected, Mykhaylo Kokhan, who finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics and Bence Halász battled for the first two places. Kokhan emerged victorious with 78.77 metres, narrowly beating Halász (77.46) while Daniel Haugh (76.65) finished third.

The women’s shot put was held as part of the Diamond League series with two Hungarians Anita Márton (17.66 SB) and Violetta Veiland (15.19), but neither of them made it into the final. After five series, only three athletes continued the competition as per the Diamond League rules. In the end, Portuguese Auriol Dongmo (19.35) took home gold beating Fanny Roos (19.01) from Sweden and Maggie Ewen (19.22) from the United States (Ewen finished third behind Roos because she achieved her best result in the first round and not in the final).

The men’s discus – also a part of the Diamond League series – featured some of the finalists of the Tokyo Olympics. Pettersson from Sweden, Weisshaidinger from Austria, Ceh from Slovenia and Ortega from Colombia were challenged by Hungarians János Huszák and Róbert Szikszai. Róbert did not make it into the final and finished ninth while János made it into the final eight and finished in the eight position (61.45).

Interestingly, Olympic silver medallist Pettersson did not make it into the final three. Former American Footballer, British Lawrence Okoye (66.89) took home gold beating Weisshaidinger (65.14) and Ceh (64.81) which is a bit of a surprise since Okoye was not in the Olympic final.

Gabriele Cunningham (12.78) from the United States won the 100 metres hurdles beating Klaudia Siciarz (12.87) from Poland and Luca Kozák (13.02) from Hungary.

The men’s 110 metres hurdles ended with a Jamaican victory thanks to Rasheed Broadbell (13.58) who beat Cypriot Milan Trajkovic (13.66) and Antonia Alkana (13.81) in a very tight race. The only Hungarian Bálint Szeles (14.32) finished fifth.

Meanwhile, the fans witnessed a very exciting finish to the women’s high jump as all three medallists cleared the same height (1.88 metres). Since Maria Vukovic did it with the fewest mistakes, she took home gold beating Karyna Demidik from Belarus and Kristina Korolyova from Russia. Barbara Szabó (1.85 SB) finished fifth, Luca Renner (1.78) finished sixth and Fédra Fekete (1.74) was seventh.

The first – all Hungarian heat – of the women’s 100 metres was won by Bettina Kéri (12.07) who beat Lili Furulyás (12.08) and Anna Kocsis (12.10). The second heat went to Jamaican World Champion Natasha Morrison (11.00) who finished ahead of Darryl Neita (11.07) and English Gardner (11.09). The best Hungarian was Jusztina Csóti (11.76) who came in seventh.

In the men’s 100 metres Elijah Hall (10.04) took home gold narrowly edging Marvin Bracy (10.05) and Julian Forte (10.20).

Réka Szilágyi (60.70) won the first Hungarian gold medal of the event in the women’s javelin throw, just like she did in Tatabánya. Szilágyi beat Kara Winger (60.34) and Lina Muze (58.56) while Angéla Moravcsik from Hungary was just centimetres away from the bronze medal with 58.50.

The women’s hammer throw ended with a Belarussian victory thanks to Nastassia Maslava (73.10) who outperformed Réka Gyurátz (69.76) and Jillian Wier (69.28).

Cara Nnenya Hailey (55.16) from the United States won the 400 metres hurdles edging Yadisleidy Pedroso and Joanna Linkiewicz (56.43). Janka Molnár (57.81) finished fourth while Regina Mohai (63.09) finished fifth. In the men’s field, Luke Campbell (49.58) from Germany was the fastest beating Ludvy Vaillant (49.83) and Máté Koroknai (50.27). Máté’s brother, Tibor Koroknai came in fourth (51.69).

Afterwards, Elijah Hall completed the double since he won the 200 metres after winning the 100. Hall equalled his personal best (20.11) outpacing Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.66) and Isiah Young (20.78).

The second Hungarian win of the day arrived in the long jump courtesy of dr. Anasztázia Nguyen (6.39) who narrowly beat Luzolo Maryse (6.38) and Abigail Irozuru (6.37).

Adel Mechaal (3:36.51) prevailed in the men’s 1500 metres beating Elzan Bibic (3:36.71) and Robert Farken (3:36.96). István Szögi (3:40.18) finished fifth.

Then, in the women’s 800 metres Christina Herring (2:01.43) took home gold ahead of Esther Guerrero (2:01.54) and Tracey Adelle (2:01.79). Hungarian Bianka Kéri-Bartha (2:04.18) came in sixth.

In the men’s field, Balázs Vindics (1:48.95) came in second with a very smart run behind Michael Saruni (1:48.36) while Abedin Mujezinovic finished third.

Jr. Darryl Sullivan won the high jump clearing 2.23 metres beating Dzmitriy Nabokau (2.20) and Oleh Doroshchuk (2.20). Péter Bakosi (2.17), Péter Agárdi (2.17) and Dániel Jankovics (2.14) finished fifth, seventh and eighth respectively.

Aliaksei Katkavec (81.29) won the men’s javelin throw comfortably ahead of Cyprian Mrzyglód (78.66) and Denis Both (77.02). The best Hungarian Máté Járvás (72.63) finished sixth.

Lili Anna Tóth (9:38.59) did everything she could to win gold in the women’s 3000 metres steeplechase, but was ultimately beaten by Anna Tropina (9:31.44) and Nataliya Strebkova (9:32.05) so she finished third.

Sebastian Martos (8:23.37) took home gold in the men’s field finishing ahead of Ibrahim Ezzaydouni (8:25.30) and Ole Hesselbjerg (8:27.99). Hungarian favourite István Palkovits (8:28.43) also ran wonderfully, beating the U23 National Record and finishing fourth.

The Budapest World team won the men’s 4X100 relays beating Ireland and the Budapest US Stars. Budapest World also won in the women’s race ahead of Budapest US Stars and the Hungarian “A” team (Bettina Kéri, Jusztina Csóti, Boglárka Takács, Luca Kozák).