Personal information | |
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Nationality | Hungarian |
Born | 24 September 1999 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Pole vault |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests | Pole vault: 4.60 m (2025) NR |
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]
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]
She is from Debrecen in the Northern Great Plain of Hungary. [16]