András Haklits

Athletics competitor
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAthletics competitor
PlacesCroatia
isAthlete Hammer thrower
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth23 September 1977, Szombathely, Vas County, Hungary
Age47 years
The details

Biography

András Haklits (born 23 September 1977) is a Croatian hammer thrower. He represented Hungary until July 1998.

He finished tenth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and eighth at the 2008 Olympic Games. In addition he competed at the World Championships in 1999, 2005 and 2007 and the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004 without reaching the final.

His personal best is 80.41 metres, achieved in May 2005 in Marietta. He worked for Doyle Sports Management whilst living in Athens, Georgia, where he graduated in economics from the University of Georgia, and he now works for Babinyecz Management in Budapest.

Since 2009, Haklits has competed as a bobsledder. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 20th in the four-man event. His lone event outside the Winter Olympics was at Park City, Utah in November 2009 where he finished ninth in the four-man event.

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing  Hungary
1996World Junior ChampionshipsSydney, Australia15th (q)60.30 m
1997European U23 ChampionshipsTurku, Finland13th (q)65.32 m
Representing  Croatia
1998European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary22nd (q)73.41 m
1999UniversiadePalma de Mallorca, Spain10th73.23 m
European U23 ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden2nd73.73 m
World ChampionshipsSeville, Spain26th (q)73.28 m
2000Olympic GamesSydney, Australia29th (q)72.66 m
2002European ChampionshipsMunich, GermanyNM
2004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece21st (q)74.43 m
2005Mediterranean GamesAlmería, Spain5th73.08 m
World ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland16th (q)73.26 m
2006European ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden10th74.83 m
2007World ChampionshipsOsaka, Japan18th (q)73.04 m
2008Olympic GamesBeijing, China10th76.58 m
2009Mediterranean GamesPescara, Italy7th71.31 m
World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany7th76.26 m
World Athletics FinalThessaloniki, Greece7th75.35 m
2010European ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain21st (q)70.84 m
2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea25th (q)70.93 m
2012European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland27th (q)69.31 m
Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom30th (q)70.61 m
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