Bence Halász (born 4 August 1997) is a Hungarian

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

specialising in the

hammer throw The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consis ...

. He won the

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at the 2019 World Championships. In addition, he won gold medals at the 2017 European U23 Championships and 2016 World U20 Championships. In 2018 he won a bronze medal at the

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

in Berlin. His personal best in the event is 80.92 m set at the

2022 European Championships The 2022 European Championships were the second edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Munich, Germany from 11 to 21 August 2022. The tournament began three days after the conclusion of the 2022 Commo ...

. Early in his career, he also competed in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

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* 1997 births Living people Hungarian male hammer throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Hungary World Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics People from Kiskunhalas Hungarian Athletics Championships winners Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Hungary Sportspeople from Bács-Kiskun County 20th-century Hungarian people 21st-century Hungarian people European Athletics Championships medalists {{Hungary-athletics-bio-stub