Zoltán Wahl

Zoltán Wahl
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.