Kristjan Čeh / tʃex/ (born 17 February 1999) is a

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

n athlete specialising in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

. He won the gold medal at the

2022 World Athletics Championships The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the ...

, setting a championship record in the process. Čeh placed second at the 2023 World Championships and the

2022 European Championships The 2022 European Championships were the second edition of the European Championships (multi-sport event), European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Munich, Germany from 11 to 21 August 2022. The event started three d ...

Career

He represented his country at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti ...

without qualifying for the final. Earlier that year he won a gold medal at the European U23 Championships in Gävle, Sweden. His personal best in the event was 68.75 metres set in Maribor in 2020, until he improved it with 69.52 m (National record) at Mestni stadion, in

Ptuj Ptuj (; , ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, eighth-largest town of Slovenia, located in the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Styria (northeastern Slovenia). It is the seat of the City Municipality of Ptuj, Municipality of Pt ...

, on 27 May 2021. This was the European U23 Record, before he improved it with 70.35 m in

Kuortane Kuortane is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The neighboring municipalities of Kuortane are ...

(FIN) on 26 June 2021. He again improved his personal best with 71.27 m in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

(GBR) on 21 May 2022. Since February 2022, he has been coached by Olympic champion Gerd Kanter.

International competitions

References

External links

*
Kristjan Čeh
at the

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

Kristjan Čeh
at Team Slovenia 1999 births Living people Slovenian male discus throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Slovenia Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Slovenia Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Slovenia Sportspeople from Ptuj 21st-century Slovenian sportsmen European Athletics Championships medalists Diamond League winners World Athletics Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games gold medalists for Slovenia European Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics {{Slovenia-athletics-bio-stub