Zoltán Wahl

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The native form of this personal name is Wahl Zoltán. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Zoltán Wahl
Wahl at the 2025 World Indoor Championships
Personal information
NationalityHungarian
Born (2000-04-27) 27 April 2000 (age 25)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)200m: 20.90 (Budapest, 2023)
400m: 46.32 (Budapest, 2023)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Hungary
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Nanjing 4x400 m relay

Zoltán Wahl (born 27 April 2000) is a Hungarian track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2023 he became Hungarian national champion over 200 metres and 400 metres. He was a bronze medalist in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]

Career

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A member of BMTE athletics club in Budafok, Budapest.[2] Wahl was part of the Hungarian 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2022 European Athletics Championships. Along with Tamás Máté, Dániel Huller, and Attila Molnár, 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] In 2023, Wahl won the Hungarian U23 title over 400 metres.[4]

He ran a new personal best of 20.92 seconds whilst competing as part of the Hungary team that participated at the 2023 European Team Championships and achieved promotion by winning Division Two.[5] In July 2023, he won the 200m and 400m at the 2023 Hungarian Athletics Championships.[6] He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, named in the 200m and 400m individual races, as well as the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m men's relay races, and the 4 × 400 m mixed relay.[7] He improved his personal best by two hundredths in the 200 metres at the Championships heats, running 20.90 seconds.[8]

He won a bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, in a new indoor national record time of 3:06.03, alongside Árpád Kovács, Patrik Simon Enyingi and Atilla Molnar.[9][10]

Personal life

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He is from Tatabánya in northwestern Hungary.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Zoltán Wahl". World Athletics. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Kerületi sportolók az atlétikai világbajnokságon". huszonketto.hu. 15 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  3. ^ "The superheroes showed their superpowers already at season start". World Athletics. 8 February 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  4. ^ "A RECORD NUMBER OF HUNGARIANS WILL COMPETE IN THE MEMORIAL". Gyulainmemorial.hu. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  5. ^ "The Hungarian team is among the best again". Magyarnemzet.hu. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  6. ^ Smythe, Steve (July 11, 2023). "World-leading sprints in US and Jamaican champs – overseas round up". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Janka Molnár and Zoltán Wahl are also candidates for the World Athletics Championships". Kemma.hu. 16 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  8. ^ "ZOLTÁN WAHL RAN AN EXCELLENT PERSONAL BEST IN THE 200 METERS". Eurosport. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Pinnock and Men's 4x400m Relay Win Silver as World Indoors Ends in Nanjing". SportsMax. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  10. ^ "World Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  11. ^ "ZOLTÁN WAHL BID FAREWELL TO THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE 200 WITH A PERSONAL BEST". Eurosport. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2025.