Marino Bloudek

Marino Bloudek
Personal information
Born (1999-04-26) 26 April 1999
Virovitica, Croatia
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Middle-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Croatia
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2026 Birmingham800 m
European U20 Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 Grosetto800 m

Marino Bloudek (born 18 July 1999) is a Croatian middle-distance runner. He is a European Championships silver medallist and a multiple-time national champion, holding the national record in both indoors and outdoors 800 metres.[1]

Biography

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] He was a semi-finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025 in the men's 800 metres.[18]

Bloudek set a new Croatian indoor national record of 1:45.27 for the 800 metres in Ostrava on 3 February 2026.[19] Boudek won the 800 metres title at the 2026 Croatian Indoor Championships in Zagreb, running 1:48.49.[20] He also ran 3:45.90 to win the 1500 metres at the championships.[21] He was a finalist in the 800 m at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland in March 2026, placing fifth overall.[22][23] In May, he competed in Poland again and won the 1500 m in a personal best of 3:38.52 at the Irena Szewińska Memorial.[24] On 21 June, he ran 1:44.63 to place third in the 800 metres behind Niels Laros at the FBK Games in Hengelo, credited with the same time as the second-place finisher Samuel Chapple.[25]

On 13 August 2026, Bloudek won the silver medal in 800 metres at the European Championships in Birmingham, England.[26] Competing in the Diamond League at the 2026 Athletissima in Lausanne, Switzerland on 21 August 2026, he ran a season's best 1:44.21 to place sixth in the 800 metres.[27]

References

  1. ↑ "Marino Bloudek". World Athletics. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Virovitičanin Marino Bloudek bez finala na 800 metara". glas-slavonije.hr (in Croatian). 8 March 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "Marino Bloudek". semafor.hns.family. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "European U20 Championships". World Athletics. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  5. ↑ "Virovitica's "son of the wind" Marino Bloudek with Mayor Ivica Kirin". virovitica.hr. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  6. ↑ "Marino Bloudek runs for the World Championship final today". virovitica.net. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  7. ↑ "Return of the Virovitica native: Marino Bloudek became the senior Croatian champion in the 800 meters in Karlovac". vpz.hr (in Croatian). 7 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  8. ↑ "Marino Bloudek, wearing the Croatian jersey, won 5th place in the 800-meter race, running his best result this year". icv.hr. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "Marino Bloudek Croatian individual champion in 10 km road race, Kvarner wins team competition". icv.hr (in Croatian). 2 November 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  10. ↑ "Marino Bloudek na Svjetskom atletskom prvenstvu nije se kvalificirao u polufinale na 800 metara". Nacional.hr (in Croatian). 22 August 2023.
  11. ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  12. ↑ "Hrvatski atletičar Marino Bloudek srušio 37 godina star dvoranski rekord". net.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  13. ↑ "Marino Bloudek bez finala Europskog prvenstva na 800 metara". nacional.hr (in Croatian). 8 March 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  14. ↑ "Marino Bloudek s osobnim rekordom drugi na mitingu u Poljskoj". prigorski.hr (in Croatian). 31 May 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  15. ↑ "Bloudek celebrates with second personal best in 10 days". Sport.hrt.hr. 10 June 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  16. ↑ "Duplantis and Koech among meeting record-breakers in Ostrava". World Athletics. 24 June 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  17. ↑ "2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division". World Athletics. 29 June 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
  18. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 21 September 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  19. ↑ "Czech Indoor Gala: World Leads, European Record and Nine Meeting Marks Fall in Sold-Out Ostrava". Watch Athletics. 3 February 2026. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  20. ↑ "Croatian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 28 February 2026. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  21. ↑ "Croatian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  22. ↑ "World Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 March 2026. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  23. ↑ Gault, Jonathan (20 March 2026). "World Indoors Day 1 A.M. Recap: Cooper Lutkenhaus cruises through, Valery Tobias DQ'd". Lets Run.
  24. ↑ "Britt and Kozák clinch hurdles wins as records fall in Bydgoszcz". World Athletics. 29 May 2026. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  25. ↑ Mills, Steven (21 June 2026). "Dutch double for Broeders-Bol and Laros in the 800m in Hengelo". European Athletics. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
  26. ↑ "European Athletics Championships 2026: Marino Bloudek earns Croatia's first European track medal since 1994: "I was some fool who believed in all of this"". olympics.com. 14 August 2026. Retrieved 14 August 2026.
  27. ↑ "Results - Lausanne Diamond League 2026". Watch Athletics. 21 August 2026. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
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