Roko Farkaš
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Roko Farkaš (born 11 February 2005) is a Croatian multi-event athlete. He has won multiple senior national titles in sprint events and is the national record holder over
200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slight ...
. In 2025, he became Croatian indoor champion in the
heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...
. In 2024, he won the gold medal at the World U20 Championships in the
long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
.


Career

He competed at the
2024 European Athletics Championships The 26th European Athletics Championships were held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. It was the third time Italy staged this sporting event after the inaugural 1934 European Athletics Championships, 1934 edition in T ...
in
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in June 2024, over 200 metres and set a new Croatian national record time of 20.70 seconds in reaching the semi-finals, beating the previous record set by
Željko Knapić Željko Knapić (born 26 March 1957 in Čakovec) is a retired Croatian Sprint (running), sprinter who represented former Yugoslavia in the 400 metres. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 400 metres relay without qualifying for the ...
43 years previously. He is the Croatian U20 record in the decathlon with 7300 points, but an injury suffered during the 2024 summer season caused him to focus on the long jump for the rest of that year. Competing in the long jump at the
2024 World Athletics U20 Championships The 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships, also known colloquially by its former official title, the World Junior Championships, is an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 2005) ...
in August 2024, he set a new Croatian U20 record of 8.15 metres to qualify for the final. In the final, he jumped a wind-assisted 8.17 metres in the fourth round to win the gold medal. In September 2024, he was nominated for the European Athletics Rising Star award. He won the heptathlon at the Croatian Indoors Combined Events Championships in Zagreb in February 2025 with a tally of 5713 points. He competed in the long jump at the
2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held from 6 to 9 March 2025 at the Omnisport Apeldoorn arena in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The four-day competition features thirteen men's, thirteen women's and one mixed athletics events over t ...
in
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, Netherlands. He placed eleventh in qualifying with an 7.70 metres jump, and did not proceed to the final. He was selected to represent Croatia in the decathlon at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in
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, Norway, and led the competition after the first day but suffered an injury during the pole vault and was unable to complete the competition.


Personal life

He is from
Nedelišće Nedelišće (; Kajkavian language, Kajkavian: ''Nedelišče'') is a village in Međimurje County, in northern Croatia, and the seat of the Municipalities of Croatia, Municipality of Nedelišće, which also includes 10 other villages in the south-w ...
. He is a member of Varaždin Sloboda in the city of
Varaždin Varaždin ( or ; , also known by #Name, alternative names) is a city in Northern Croatia, north-east of Zagreb. The total population is 46,946, with 38,839 in the city settlement itself (2011). The city is best known for its baroque buildings, ...
in Croatia.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Farkas, Roko 2005 births Living people Croatian male sprinters Croatian male long jumpers World Athletics U20 Championships winners 21st-century Croatian sportsmen