Halasz’s hammer excites home fans.
By Mitch Phillips
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Bence Halasz, Hungary’s best hope for a medal at their own World Championships, earned the biggest roar of the opening morning on Saturday when he launched his hammer 78.13 metres to sail into Sunday’s final at the first attempt.
The hammer is close to everyone’s heart in the host nation, who have won five Olympic men’s golds in the event and seven of their 14 world silver and bronze.
Halasz, joint bronze-medallist in 2019 and fifth last year, launched his first throw and surpassed the automatic qualifying mark of 77 metres to the delight of the vocal morning crowd.
He will return to a bigger attendance – and no doubt even louder roar – on Sunday, Hungary’s National Day.
Canada’s Ethan Katzberg smashed his personal best by more than two metres with an enormous throw of 81.18 – a national record and the second-longest by anyone this year behind Pole Wojciech Nowicki’s 81.92.
Nowicki also advanced on Saturday with 78.04 alongside compatriot Pawel Fajdek, who is seeking a sixth successive world title to match the record of pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, who threw 77.98.
(Reporting by Mitch Phillips, editing by Ken Ferris and Hugh Lawson)
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