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| Born | 26 April 1999 Virovitica, Croatia | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle-distance running | ||||||||||||||
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Marino Bloudek (born 18 July 1999) is a Croatian middle-distance runner. He is national record holder over 800 metres, both indoors and outdoors, and is a multiple-time national champion. [1]
Bloudek was born in Virovitica on 18 July 1999. [2] [3]
Bloudek won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy. [4] He won the senior Croatian Indoors Athletics Championships in Zagreb in February 2018. [5] He competed at the 2018 World Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. [6]
He won the Croatian Athletics Championships over 800 metres in 2021 in Karlovac. [7] He competed at the 2021 European Team Championships. [8] Bloudek became the national champion in 10 km road race in November 2022. [9]
He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, [10] and the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, where he was a semi-finalist in the 800 metres. [11]
He set a new Croatian national indoor record over 800 metres in Poland in February 2025, running 1:46.15. [12] He was a semi-finalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in March 2025. [13]
Competing in May 2025 over 800 metres in Bydgoszcz, Poland he set a new personal best of 1:44.74. [14] On 10 June, he won the 800 metres at the International de Montreuil meeting, part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze series, running a new personal best time of 1:44.56. [15] He set a Croatian national record of 1:44.02 to finish in second place in the 800 metres at the Golden Spike Ostrava on 24 June. [16] He won the 800 meters competing for Croatia at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor. [17]
