Bence Halász

Bence Halász
nation	Hungary
birthday	4th August 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Kiskunhalas , Hungary
size	188 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throwing
Best performance	79.88 m
society	Dobó SE
Trainer	Zsolt Németh László Németh
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Youth Olympic Games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Doha 2019 Hammer throwing  European championships bronze Berlin 2018 Hammer throwing  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2017 Hammer throwing silver Gävle 2019 Hammer throwing  U20 world championships gold Bydgoszcz 2016 Hammer throwing  U20 European Championships gold Eskilstuna 2015 Hammer throwing  Youth Olympic Games silver Nanjing 2014 Hammer throwing
last change: August 11, 2020

Bence Halász (born August 4, 1997 in Kiskunhalas ) is a Hungarian hammer thrower . He won bronze medals at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin and the 2019 World Championships in Doha. In the youth field he also took part in competitions in the shot put and discus throwing .

Athletic career

Bence Halász has been competing since he was twelve. At that time he was still participating in several throwing disciplines in Hungarian championships. After several national titles over the next few years, he managed to qualify for the U18 World Championships in Donetsk in 2013 . He competed with both the hammer and the discus. With the 5-kilo hammer he took seventh place in the final, and the final eighth place with the 1.5-kilo discus.

A year later, at the age of 17, he entered the U20 World Championships in Eugene . With increased weights due to the higher age group, he failed with both throwing devices in the qualification. At the Youth Olympic Games a month later in August, he won the silver medal in hammer throwing.

In 2015, he celebrated his greatest sporting success to date by winning the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. A year later he also won the gold medal at the U20 World Championships. Another year later, now with the adult throwing weight of 7.26 kg, he confirmed his title from the last European Championships in the same place where the World Championships took place a year earlier, this time among the under 23-year-olds. At the 2017 Adult World Championships later that year in London, he made it to the finals of the top twelve. He threw around a meter further than when he won the European Championships and ended up in eleventh place.

He won the bronze medal at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin. There he threw with 77.36 m a little more than two meters shorter than his current best of 79.57 m from June 2018. At the U23 European Championships in 2019 , he took second place with a width of 74.14 m. He was also successful at the subsequent World Championships in Doha. With a width of 78.18 m, he won the bronze medal behind the Pole Paweł Fajdek and the French Quentin Bigot , which is his greatest sporting success to this day. His furthest throw in the competition was invalid, but this was only determined after the competition through video analysis. Therefore, fourth-placed Wojciech Nowicki subsequently received the bronze medal, but Halász was allowed to keep the bronze medal. In 2020 he secured his fourth title in a row at the Hungarian Championships , where he improved to 79.88 m.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Hungary
2013	U18 world championships	Donetsk	7th	Hammer throw	74.90 m (5 kg)
2014	U20 world championships	Eugene	14th	Hammer throw	71.95 m (6 kg)
	Youth Olympic Games	Nanjing	2.	Hammer throw	81.90 m (5 kg)
2015	U20 European Championships	Eskilstuna	1.	Hammer throw	79.60 m (6 kg)
2016	U20 world championships	Bydgoszcz	1.	Hammer throw	80.93 m (6 kg)
2017	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz	1.	Hammer throw	73.30 m
	World championships	London	11.	Hammer throw	74.45 m
2018	European championships	Berlin	3.	Hammer throw	77.36 m
2019	U23 European Championships	Gävle	2.	Hammer throw	74.14 m
	World championships	Doha	3.	Hammer throw	78.18 m

Personal best

• Hammer throw : 79.88 m, August 9, 2020, Budapest
• Discus throw: 57.06 m, March 7, 2020, Szombathely
• Shot put : 16.12 m, June 11, 2017, Székesfehérvár

Web links

• Bence Halász in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Bence Halász in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to video analysis: Poland's hammer thrower Wojciech Nowicki receives bronze at the World Championships. In: Sportbuzzer. October 3, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .