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Attila Molnár (runner)
Hungarian athlete (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Attila Molnár (born 17 January 2002) is a Hungarian track and field athlete. He set a new Hungarian national record over 400 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. He won the gold medal at that distance at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
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Molnar runs for Ferencvaros,[2] he was part of the Hungarian 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2022 European Athletics Championships. Along with Tamás Máté, Dániel Huller, and Zoltán Wahl, he was part of the 4 × 400 m indoor relay team that broke a 23-year-old national record, running 3:08.58 in February 2023.[3]
He set a new Hungarian national record over 400 metres when he ran 44.98 seconds in Limassol in May 2023.[4] He matched this time in July 2023, at the István Memorial in Gyulai.[5] Molnar competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest and lowered his national record in the 400 metres to 44.84 to qualify for the semi-final.[6][7]
In January 2024, he set a new Hungarian indoor 400 metres record, running 46.22 seconds in Nyíregyháza.[8] Selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, he reached the final of the men's 400 meters with a new national indoor record time of 46.08. In the final he finished in fifth place overall.[9] He ran as part of the Hungarian Mixed 4x400m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[10]
In June 2024, he qualified for the final of the 2024 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres in Rome.[11] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics over 400 metres in August 2024.[12]
He ran 45.66 for the 400 m at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting in January 2025 to lower his Hungarian national indoor record.[13] He lowered it again on 4 February 2025, running 45.08 seconds at the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava.[14] That performance was also just 0.03 seconds off the European indoor record held jointly by Karsten Warholm and Thomas Schönlebe.[15] Competing at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships, he was the fastest qualifier for the 400n final, running 45.48 seconds in his semi-final.[16] It was the fastest ever men's 400 m semifinal time at a European Athletics Indoor Championships.[17] He subsequently went faster again to win gold in the final, in a time of 45.25 seconds.[18]
He finished fourth in the individual 400 metres and won a bronze medal in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, in a new national record time of 3:06.03.[19][20][21]
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