Róbert Fazekas

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Róbert Fazekas [ ˈroːbɛrt ˈfɒzɛkɒʃ ] (born August 18, 1975 in Szombathely ) is a Hungarian discus thrower .

biography

Fazekas began his sporting career as a judoka , but then switched to athletics . In addition to the discus, he initially operated the hammer throw . The first major international sports festival in which Fazekas took part was the Junior World Championships in 1994, at which Fazekas finished fifth with the discus and was eliminated with the hammer as tenth after qualifying. In 1997 he was sixth at the Junior European Championships. The following year Fazekas reached fourth place at the European Championships in Budapest . On August 29, 1998 in his hometown of Szombathely he improved his personal record by over 6 meters to 66.61 m. At the 1999 World Championships in Seville , the Hungarian managed to qualify for the final. With a width of 61.71 m he finished 11th in the end.

For the first time in the Olympic Games Fazekas took part in 2000 in Sydney . There he retired as eighth in the qualification. Shortly before the 2001 World Championships, he increased to 68.09 m, but failed early at the World Championships in Edmonton with a disappointing distance of 53.73 m. Fazekas experienced an explosion of his achievements in 2002. Of the 18 competitions he entered, he was able to win 16. At the European Championships in Munich Fazekas won the title in front of the Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna and the German Michael Möllenbeck . At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis , he was runner-up behind Alekna. At the Grand Prix final in Monaco in September 2003 , Fazekas also left the ring in second place. Shortly before the start of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he won the Super Grand Prix meeting in Madrid as well as the renowned Weltklasse Zürich meeting and traveled to Athens as a favorite.

In the Olympic final on August 23, 2004 Fazekas went with the best qualification distance. On his second attempt he threw the discus to a distance of 70.93 m, 1.53 meters further than Lars Riedel's old Olympic record from 1996. When his fiercest opponent Alekna could no longer catch up with him with his sixth throw, Fazekas did not run for his last attempt. After the competition, however, Fazekas refused to take the doping test in order to then attempt to swap his urine with someone else's urine. Since Fazekas was convicted of doping according to the rules of the International Olympic Committee , the medal was revoked and instead of Virgilijus Alekna, he was declared Olympic champion. Fazekas was also suspended for two years.

In 2008 Fazekas made his comeback and qualified for the Beijing Olympics , where he finished eighth. Shortly before the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Fazekas was removed from the Hungarian team because of a positive doping test for stanozolol and suspended for eight years until July 5, 2020.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discus champion loose gold. BBC Sport , August 24, 2004, accessed April 21, 2018 .
  2. ^ Hungarians ban doping pair. BBC Sport , September 30, 2004, accessed April 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The doping cases are increasing. Hamburger Abendblatt , July 27, 2012, accessed on April 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Fazekas discus thrower banned for eight years. Salzburger Nachrichten , September 28, 2012, accessed on April 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fazekas, Róbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian discus thrower
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Szombathely