Adrian Annus

Adrian Annus
Full name	Adrián Zsolt Annus
nation	Hungary
birthday	28th June 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Szeged , Hungary
size	194 cm
Weight	115 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	84.19 m (August 10, 2003 in Szombathely )
society	Szombathelyi DOBÓ SE
Trainer	Géza Annus, Pál Németh
status	resigned
End of career	August 4, 2007
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships silver Paris / Saint-Denis 2003 80.36 m  European championships gold Munich 2002 81.17 m  Universiade bronze Beijing 2001 77.73 m
last change: March 31, 2020

Adrián Zsolt Annus [ ˈɒdriaːn ˈɒnːuʃ ] (born June 28, 1973 in Szeged ) is a former Hungarian hammer thrower . He became European champion in 2002 and vice world champion the following year and also holds the Hungarian national record. In addition to his successes, he was also convicted of doping, making him one of many hammer throwers from the late 1990s and 2000s who tested positive for prohibited substances. For example, his gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was subsequently revoked.

Athletic career

Adrián gained his first international experience in 1992 at the Junior World Championships in Seoul , where he finished eleventh with a width of 63.18 m. In 1996 he took part in the Olympic Games in Atlanta for the first time, but was eliminated there with 72.58 m in qualification . Two years later he reached the final at the European Championships in Budapest , where he reached eighth place with a throw on 77.29 m, before he was eliminated again in the qualification at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney with 75.41 m .

At the World Athletics Championships 2001 in Edmonton he was ninth with 78.10 m in the final and then won the bronze medal at the Summer Universiade in Beijing with a width of 77.73 m behind the Italian Nicola Vizzoni and Wladyslaw Piskunow from Ukraine. In the following year he celebrated the greatest success of his career at the European Championships in Munich by winning the gold medal, where he lifted the hammer to 81.17 m. Then he was at the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Paris with 80.03 m second behind the Japanese Kōji Murofushi and won the World Cup in Madrid with 80.93 m. On August 10, 2003, he set a new Hungarian national record with 84.19 m in Szombathely and is ninth on the all-time list of the best (as of March 2020). Shortly afterwards, he won the silver medal behind Belarusian Ivan Zichan at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis with a throw at 80.36 m . In 2004 he took part in the Olympic Games in Athens for the third time and originally won the gold medal there with 83.19 m. However, when he had refused a doping control twice , the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped him of the gold medal retrospectively , and the Japanese Kōji Murofushi was declared the winner. In addition, Annus was banned for two years. Laboratory tests had indicated that some of the doping samples he had given came from different people. After his suspension expired in 2007, Annus attempted a comeback, but ended his career as an active professional athlete after 15 years at a meeting in Nikiti on August 4, 2007 .

In the years 1996 and 2002 to 2004 Annus was the Hungarian hammer throw champion. At the beginning of his career he was coached by his father Géza Annus, before he moved from his hometown Gyula to Szombathely in 1989 , where he was coached by Simon Gyula before he was looked after by the successful Hungarian coach Pál Németh . Vida József was also his coach.

Awards

• Sportsman of the year : 2003
• Honorary citizen of the city of Gyula

Web links

• Adrián Annus in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Adrián Annus in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Olympic Committee - Executive Board: Decision regarding Mr. Adrian Annus, born on June 28, 1973, Athletics, Hungary, Men's Hammer Throw ( memento of November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), August 29, 2004
2. ^ Hungarians ban doping pair. BBC Sport , September 30, 2004, accessed April 21, 2018 .