Nationality Croatia Sport Track and field | Event(s) Discus throw, Shot put Name Filip Mihaljevic | |
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Born 31 July 1994 (age 29) ( 1994-07-31 ) Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina Personal best(s) DT: 63.11 m (Philadelphia 2015)
SP: 20.16 m (Charlottesville, Virginia 2015) | ||
Filip mihaljevi taking the gold in the last round of the european u23 championship
Filip Mihaljević (born 31 July 1994) is a Croatian discus thrower and shot putter.
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Early life
He was born in Bosnia but moved to Split, Croatia. Until the age of 17 he played football, eventually switching to shot put. When he began he was a natural and many people around him believed he would eventually be an impressive discus thrower because of his build.
Career
He is currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia attending the University of Virginia, where he is training under the tutelage of Bosnian Kemal Mešić.
He won a gold medal at the 2015 European Athletics U23 Championships shot put event, with a throw of 19.35 m (63 ft 6 in).
He won a silver medal at the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships shot put event, with a throw of 20.23 m (66 ft 4 in).
On 23 January 2016 Mihaljević won the shot put competition at Rod McCravy Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky with 20.69 m and thus qualified to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
On 18 March 2016, competing at his very first senior world championships, in Portland, Mihaljević won the bronze medal in shot put competition with 20.87 m, his personal best.
