Krisztián Pars

Krisztián Pars
Krisztián Pars
nation	Hungary
birthday	18th February 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Körmend , Hungary
size	188 cm
Weight	104 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	82.69 m (August 16, 2014 in Zurich )
society	Dobó SE
Trainer	Pál Németh , Zsolt Németh
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 2 × 0 × European championships 2 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 80.59 m  World championships silver Daegu 2011 81.18 m silver Moscow 2013 80.30 m  European championships bronze Barcelona 2010 79.06 m gold Helsinki 2012 79.72 m gold Zurich 2014 82.69 m  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2003 77.25 m  Junior European Championships gold Grosseto 2001 69.42 m  Youth World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 1999 74.76 m
last change: August 11, 2020

Krisztián Pars [ ˈkristiaːn ˈpɒrʃ ] (born February 18, 1982 in Körmend ) is a Hungarian hammer thrower . He became Olympic champion in 2012 and European champion in 2012 and 2014 and was one of the world's best hammer throwers between 2008 and 2016.

Athletic career

Krisztián Pars competed in his first international competitions in 1999 at the World Youth Championships in Bydgoszcz , Poland , where he won the gold medal with a 5 kg hammer with a width of 74.76 m. In 2001 he took part in the Junior European Championships in Grosseto and also won there with the 6 kg hammer with 69.42 m, as well as at the U23 European Championships in 2003 in Bydgoszcz, where he promoted the hammer to 77.25 m. In 2004 he qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games , where he made it straight to the finals and finished fourth there with a width of 78.73 m. He then finished second at the World Athletics Final in Szombathely with 79.17 m behind the Finn Olli-Pekka Karjalainen .

In 2005 he finished sixth at the World Championships in Helsinki with 78.03 m and then reached third place at the World Athletics Final in Szombathely with 78.32 m behind the Finns Karjalainen and Wadsim Dsewjatouski from Belarus. The following year he was fifth at the European Championships in Gothenburg with a throw of 78.34 m and again reached third place at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 80.41 m, this time behind the Japanese Kōji Murofushi and Iwan Zichan from Belarus. At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka he was fifth with 80.93 m and then only had to admit defeat to Belarusian Zichan at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 78.42 m. In 2008, he again qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing , where he this time with 80.96 meters in the finals again the fourth place before the World Athletics Final with 79.39 m second behind the Olympic champion he Primoz Kozmus from Slovenia became.

In 2009 he again achieved fourth place at the World Championships in Berlin with a throw on 77.45 m and thus remained without a medal at a major international event. He then came third at the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki with 77.49 m behind the Slovenian Kozmus and Igors Sokolovs from Latvia. The following year he won his first adult medal at the European Championships in Barcelona with 79.06 m with bronze and had to admit defeat to the Slovak Libor Charfreitag and Nicola Vizzoni from Italy. The following year he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, with a throw of 81.18 m, where he was only six centimeters short of the winning distance of the Japanese Murofushi. In 2012 he won the gold medal at the European Championships in Helsinki with 79.72 m, securing the title of European champion with over two meters ahead of the runner-up. He also qualified for the Olympic Games in London one month later in which he with a width of 80.59 m in to finals chose to Olympic champion, which he by Imre Németh , József Csermák , Gyula Zsivótzky and Balázs Kiss already the fifth Hungarian who was awarded this title.

In 2013 Pars took part in the World Championships in Moscow and won the silver medal behind the Pole Paweł Fajdek with 80.30 m . In the following year he increased his own personal best at the European Championships in Zurich to 82.69 m, with which he was able to successfully defend his title from 2012. Then he also won the Continental Cup in Marrakech with a width of 78.99 m. At the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, Pars made it to the finals again , but finished fourth there with 77.32 m. The following year he qualified for the fourth time for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished seventh with 75.28 m in the final .

In 2017 he retired from the World Championships in London, where he retired from qualifying for the first time in his career with 74.08 m . The following year he tested positive for cocaine use and was banned until 2019. After his suspension expired, he immediately took part in the World Championships in Doha again in 2019 , but also retired there with a width of 73.05 m in the qualification .

Krisztián Pars was also very successful at national level and won the Hungarian hammer throw title every year between 2005 and 2016. He was trained for a long time by the former Hungarian hammer thrower and successful coach Pál Német , before he was looked after by the also former hammer thrower Zsolt Németh .

doping

In 2018, Pars gave a positive doping test for using cocaine and was banned by the World Athletics Federation ( IAAF ) from January 13, 2018 for one and a half years until July 12, 2019.

Awards

• Athlete of the year: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Hungarian Order of Merit : 2004 Bronze Cross of Merit, 2008 Knight's Cross, 2012 Officer's Cross
• Honorary Citizen of the City of Szentgotthárd (since 2012)

Web links

Commons : Krisztián Pars  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Wenig: Pars' victory inspired by Szombathely's Hammer tradition ( English ) IAAF. August 6, 2012. Accessed March 29, 2020.
2. ↑ Len Johnson: Report: Men's Hammer final - Moscow 2013 ( English ) IAAF. August 12, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
3. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Perkovic wins European discus title with best distance since 1992 ( English ) IAAF. August 16, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
4. ↑ Matt Brown: Report: men's hammer - IAAF Continental Cup, Marrakech 2014 ( English ) IAAF. September 13, 2014. Accessed March 29, 2020.
5. ↑ Sanctions for anti-doping rule violations in athletics as of June 26, 2018 (pdf 123 kB)
6. ↑ Olympic hammer throw champion banned for doping , olympics.nbcsports.com