Anita Marton

Anita Marton

Marton 2019 in Glagow

nation

Hungary

birthday

15th January 1989 (age 31)

place of birth

Szeged , Hungary

size

172 cm

Weight

90 kg

Career

discipline

Shot put

Best performance

19.87 m

society

Békéscsabai AC

status

active

Medal table

World championships	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×
European championships	0 ×	1 ×	1 ×
Indoor world championships	1 ×	1 ×	0 ×
European Indoor Championships	2 ×	0 ×	1 ×
U23 European Championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×

World championships
silver	London 2017	19.49 m
European championships
bronze	Zurich 2014	18.72 m
silver	Amsterdam 2016	19.04 m
Indoor world championships
silver	Portland 2016	19.33 m
gold	Birmingham 2018	19.62 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	Prague 2015	19.23 m
gold	Belgrade 2017	19.28 m
bronze	Glasgow 2019	19.00 m
U23 European Championships
bronze	Ostrava 2011	54.14 m

last change: March 3, 2019

Anita Márton (born January 15, 1989 in Szeged ) is a Hungarian shot putter and discus thrower .

Athletic career

At the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Márton took seventh place in the shot put with 15.88 m and sixth place in the discus throw with 51.16 m. At the European Indoor Championships in Turin in 2009 , she failed with 15.82 m in qualification. Also at the World Championships in Berlin she was eliminated in qualifying and finished 24th with 16.80 m. The following year it was again not enough for the final at the World Indoor Championships in Doha with 17.34 m and she was seventeenth. The European Championships 2010 in Barcelona made it into the finals for the first time and she was eleventh with 17.78 m. At the European Indoor Championships in 2011 in Paris , she improved again and finished fifth with 17.84 m.

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , she won the silver medal with 18.72 m. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Márton won the bronze medal with her personal best of 19.87 m. In 2017 she successfully defended her title at the European Indoor Championships and set up a new world best of the year with 19.23 m in Belgrade . In the open air she qualified again for the World Championships in London , where she won the silver medal in the shot put behind Chinese Gong Lijiao with 19.49 m and was eliminated from the qualification in the discus throw with 55.96 m .

At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , she won the gold medal with a personal indoor best of 19.62 m.

In her home country she is nine times indoor champion; So far, she has won 22 outdoor titles in the shot put, discus throw and hammer throw.

Shot put: 19.87 m, August 12, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro ( Hungarian record )
- Hall: 19.62 m, March 2, 2018 in Birmingham ( Hungarian record )
Discus throw: 60.94 m, September 4, 2016 in Budapest ( Hungarian record )