Nationality Croatia Sport Track and field | Event(s) Discus throw, Shot put Name Filip Mihaljevic | |
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Born 31 July 1994 (age 30) ( 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.
Contents
- Filip mihaljevi taking the gold in the last round of the european u23 championship
- Filip mihaljevi 61 52m 201 10
- Early life
- Career
- References
Filip mihaljevi 61 52m 201 10
Early life
![Filip Mihaljević HRT EP U23 Filip Mihaljevi osvojio zlato u bacanju kugle](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-b4c1b752-a129-4a77-908d-870943bb8b7-resize-750.jpeg)
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
![Filip Mihaljević Getting to Know Filip Mihaljevic Virginia Athletics Foundation](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-c310d5f9-f9c9-43d3-8673-6ab015a56ae-resize-750.jpeg)
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).
![Filip Mihaljević Filip Mihaljevi novi hrvatski olimpijac Deseti atletiar i trei](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-4d1e7b31-22e2-4054-a586-c55eb5accd9-resize-750.jpeg)
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).
![Filip Mihaljević Filip Mihaljevic HTR4 prilog YouTube](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-0836b81a-cb02-450d-9d1e-7ab2b1fedad-resize-750.jpeg)
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.
![Filip Mihaljević grfxcstvcomphotosschoolsvasportscxctracka](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-07bb9b71-ae6c-492a-93c8-4f6abd16561-resize-750.jpeg)
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.
![Filip Mihaljević Shot Putter Filip Mihaljevi Qualifies for the Rio Olympics](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-f55afb56-4afc-4342-8b2b-9baf2841dee-resize-750.jpg)
![Filip Mihaljević Track and Field Filip Mihaljevic YouTube](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-001e3c4b-28b3-4796-ab40-94d281cfae4-resize-750.jpeg)
![Filip Mihaljević Filip Mihaljevic CRO after winning silver in the Shot Put Rieti](https://alchetron.com/cdn/filip-mihaljevi-ee611e8e-6874-4f94-b99b-5e385309b31-resize-750.jpeg)