STARS OF P-T-S MEETING

VIKTÓRIA FORSTER (ŠK ŠOG Nitra/Elite Centre VŠC Dukla, 100 m and 100 m hurdles, 22 years old)

Winner of the World University Games 2023 in the 100 m hurdles (2nd in the 100 m), 5th in the 100 m and finalist in the 100 m hurdles (unclassified) at the 2021 Junior World Championships, 4th in the 200 m and 6th in the 100 m at the 2019 EYOF, 14th in the 200 m at the 2018 Youth Olympics, semifinalist at the Indoor World Championships 2022 and 2024 in the 60 m hurdles, semifinalist at the 2022 European Championships in the 100 m hurdles, last year at the P-T-S with a time of 11.26 broke the 55-year-old Slovak record of Eva Gleskova (11.29) from the 1968 Olympics, Slovak record holder (12.72) in the 100 m hurdles.

GABRIELA GAJANOVÁ (AK ZŤS Martin/Elite Centre VŠC Dukla, 800 m, 24 years old)

Bronze at the 2017 Junior European Championships, bronze at the 2016 European Championships under 18, bronze at the 2023 European Games, 4th place at the 2018 Junior World Championships, participation in the 2021 Olympics (18th overall in the 800 m), semifinalist at the 2023 Indoor European Championships (9th overall), Slovak indoor record holder in the 800 m (2:01.70), outdoor personal record 1:58.78.

EMMA ZAPLETALOVÁ (ŠK ŠOG Nitra/Elite Centre VŠC Dukla, 400 m hurdles, 24 years old)

European U23 champion 2021, 5th at the 20128 Junior World Championships, semifinalist at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Slovak record holder in the 400 m hurdles 54.28, Slovak Athlete of the Year 2021.

MARTINA HRAŠNOVÁ (ŠK Dukla o. z. B. Bystrica /Elite Centre VŠC Dukla, hammer throw, 41 years old)

Bronze at the World Championships (2009), silver at the European Championships (2012, 2014), 6th at the 2008 Olympics, attempting her fifth start at the Olympics (2008, 2012, 2016, 2021), junior world vice-champion (2002) and European (2001), 2nd at the World University Games (2009), veteran world record holder in the 40 to 44-year-old category (69.55 m), Slovak Athlete of the Year 2009, Slovak record holder 76.90 (2009).

JÁN VOLKO (Our Athletics Bratislava/Elite Centre ŠCP Bratislava, 100 and 200 m, 27 years old)

Triple medalist at the Indoor European Championships in the 60 m (2017 – 2nd, 2019 – 12th, 2021 – 3rd, 2023 – 5th), 6th at the 2018 Indoor World Championships, 4th at the 2022 European Championships in the 100 m, Slovak record holder in the indoor 60 m (6.55), outdoor in the 100 m (10.13) and 200 m (20.24), European U23 champion in 2017 in the 200 m (silver in the 100 m), in 2018 at P-T-S set the Slovak record in the 100 m (10.13), triple Slovak Athlete of the Year (2017, 2019, 2022).

REETTA HURSKEOVÁ (Finland, 100 m hurdles, 29 years old)

Indoor European champion 2023 in the 60 m hurdles (4th at the 20217 ECH), 2nd at the 2019 World University Games, Finnish record holder in the 100 m hurdles 12.70 (2023).

RICHARD KILTY (Great Britain, 100 m, 34 years old)

Indoor world champion 2014 and indoor European champion (2015, 2017) in the 60 m, still fast at almost 35 years old, when in the 2024 indoor season he achieved a time of 6.61 in Torun in the 60 m, personal record in the 100 m 10.01 (with wind 9.92).

BOHDAN BONDARENKO (Ukraine, high jump, 34 years old)

Bronze at the 2016 Olympics (6th at the 2012 Olympics), world champion (2013) and world silver medalist (2015), European champion (2014), junior world champion (2008) and European champion under 23 (2011), third in the historical world tables with a performance of 242 cm (alongside Sjöberg/Sweden and Thränhardt/Germany).

CHRISTIAN TAYLOR (USA, triple jump, 33 years old)

2-time Olympic champion (2012, 2016) and 4-time world champion (2011, 2015, 2017, 2019), 5-time winner of the Diamond League final (2014 – 2017, 2019), second in the historical world tables (18.21 m).

ETHAN KATZBERG (Canada, Hammer Throw, 22 years old)

Reigning world champion from Budapest 2023, winner of the Pan American Games 2023, 2nd at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, North American continental record holder (84.38 m – in April 2024 in Nairobi, 9th in the historical world tables).

SARA FANTINIOVÁ (Italy, Hammer Throw, 26 years old)

The biggest favorite is bronze medalist Sara Fantini from Italy, 2-time World Cup finalist (2022/4., 2023/6.). Fantini, who already has a performance of 73.67 m this year, is extremely successful at the winter European litter cup, in the last three years she was no worse than second (2022 – 2nd, 2023 – 1st, 2024 – 2nd) . Since 2022 she holds the Italian record of 75.77 m. On Saturday at the Kusocińské memorial, she took 2nd place with a performance of 71.97 m. Among the six individual hammer throwers over 70 m, Réka Gyurátzová (from Hungary 72.70), medalist of the youth championships (1st WC 2013 under 18, 2nd MSJ 2014, 2nd MEJ 2013) has the seventh from the European Championship 2022.