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Hanga Klekner
Hungarian athlete (born 1999) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hanga Klekner (born 24 September 1999) is a Hungarian pole vaulter. She is the Hungarian national record holder and has represented the country at multiple major championships, including the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the 2024 Olympic Games.[1]
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She became national champion for the first time at the 2020 Hungarian Athletics Championships. She retained her national title in 2021.[2] She finished in fifth place at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in the pole vault in Tallinn, Estonia.[3]
She won her third consecutive national pole vault title at the Hungarian Athletics Championships in June 2022.[4] She competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany in the pole vault.[5]
She won the Hungarian Indoor Athletics Championships pole vault title in February 2023.[6] She competed at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, in the women's pole vault.[7] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, clearing 4.50 metres for the first time.[8][9]
She competed at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, Italy.[10] She set a new national record at the 2024 Hungarian Athletics Championships, clearing 4.57 metres.[11] She competed at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.[12]
She won the Hungarian Indoor Athletics Championships pole vault title in February 2025 in Nyíregyháza.[13] She competed at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, but did not progress to the final.[14] Having competed at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025 in the pole vault she also stepped-up after a crisis in personnel at the event for her country, running the 800 metres to score a point in the team competition.[15] With Angelica Moser, and Lea Bachmann she shared the win with 4.35 metres at the 2025 Athletissima in wet conditions in Lausanne.[16] She set a new personal best of 4.60 metres to win the 2025 Hungarian Championships in Budapest.[17][18] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the final.[19][20]
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She is from Debrecen in the Northern Great Plain of Hungary.[21]
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