{"id":1201,"date":"2023-04-12T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/2023\/04\/12\/from-bislett-to-budapest\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:56:06","slug":"from-bislett-to-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/from-bislett-to-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bislett to Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Bislett general Steinar Hoen has added hammer throw to this year&#8217;s Oslo Bislett Games. Quite natural when one of the Bislett clubs has one of the biggest profiles in the event in the form of <b>Eivind Henriksen<\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Silver medalist from the Olympics in Tokyo, and double bronze medalist from the World and European Championships in 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">As Bislett has Henriksen, Budapest has <b>Bence Halasz<\/b> &#8211; born just over ten miles from the Hungarian capital. With third place from the World Championships in 2019, and a silver medal from last year&#8217;s European Championships, the former junior world champion is one of the great hopes for the host nation of this year&#8217;s World Championships.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">As we said, the Oslo Bislett Games will be a foretaste of the World Championships in Budapest, with six of the seven best in the world ranking in place.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b>Wojciech Nowicki<\/b> from Poland tops the ranking. The Olympic winner from 2021 took gold in last year&#8217;s European Championships and silver in the World Championships. Has 82.52 as a personal best and a total of nine championship medals from the Olympics, World and European Championships.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Number two on the ranking list is his compatriot <b>Pawel Fajdek<\/b>. He can point to five World Championships golds &#8211; that is all from 2013 to 2022, one European Championships gold and a personal record of 83.93. And like Nowicki, he has a total of nine championship medals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Next on the list is <b>Halasz<\/b>, with a personal best of 80.92, followed by <b>Henriksen<\/b> with 81.58.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The last two top-ranked participants in place are the American <b>Rudy Winkler<\/b> in fifth place, with 82.71 as his best result and a sixth place from last year&#8217;s World Championships, as well as Ukrainian <b>Mykhaylo Kokhan<\/b> in seventh place with a personal best of 80.78 and several top six places from international championship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">A place has also been found for our own <b>Thomas Mardal<\/b> and we look forward to see if the 26-year-old from Gloppen, with 76.74 from the World Championships last summer, can approach the 80-metre mark.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><i>A little fun fact about Mardal: We hardly think any hammer throwers at the +75 level can match Mardal&#8217;s personal record in 100 meters which reads 10.97 &#8211; in addition to the fact that he has run 10.79 with 0.1 second meter too much wind for the result to be approved.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s hammer throw-competition during this year&#8217;s Oslo Bislett Games will...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oslo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}