Patrik Dömötör
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| Born | 13 December 2000 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sprint, hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 400m 46.61 (2025) 400m hurdles 48.94 (2025) NR | ||||||||||||||
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Patrik Dömötör (born 13 December 2000) is a Slovak athlete. He has won multiple national championship titles in the 400 metres hurdles and is the joint national record holder. He is also the national indoor record holder over 400 metres.[1]
Career
Running as a member of TJ Olympia Galanta, he won his first senior Slovak championship title in the 400 metres at the Slovak Indoor Championships in Bratislava, running a new personal record of 48.49 seconds in February 2019.[2] At the 2021 World Athletics Relays in Chorzów, Poland, he finished sixth overall in the 2 x 2 x 400 m relay with Daniela Ledecká.[3][4]
He competed in the 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.[5] He competed for Slovakia at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy but did not progress through the preliminary heats.[6][7]
In February 2025, running for Slávia STU Bratislava he set a Slovak national indoor record over 400 metres at the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava. That month, he also won the 400m race at the Keely Klassic in Birmingham, England and improved his own record by two hundredths of a second with a time of 46.61 seconds.[8] He ran the 400 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China but did not qualify from his heat.[9]
He won the 400 metres hurdles race at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division event in Maribor, Slovenia in June 2025.[10][11] The following month, he won the bronze medal at the 2025 World University Games in Germany, running the second best time of his career 49.45 seconds.[12][13] On 2 August, he lowered his personal best to 49.23 seconds and set a championship record in winning the Slovak Athletics Championships.[14] The following week, whilst competing in Štiavničky he ran a time of 48.94 seconds, equaling the 36-year-old national record of Jozef Kucej.[15] He placed seventh in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 Athletissima in wet conditions in Lausanne.[16]
He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in the men's 400 metres hurdles in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the semi-finals.[17][18]
References
- ^ "Patrik Dömötör". World Athletics. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "Great! Galanta has a Slovak champion in athletics". Mynitra.sme.sk. 17 Feb 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ Bogdanyi, Gabriel (28 April 2021). "Ledecká and Dömötör will enter previously unknown spheres, they will run an unconventional 2x relay (2 x 400 m) in Chorzów". Atletika.sk. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ "2X2X400 METRES RELAY MIXED". World Athletics. 1 May 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ Porubec, Mario (6 June 2024). "The European Athletics Championships are starting in Rome. Patrik Dömötör received a last-minute invitation". ta3.com.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ Bogdanyi, Gabriel (15 Feb 2025). "Dömötör's next Slovak record in the 400 m (46.61), Ledecká attacked the Slovak indoor historical maximum in the 300 m". Atletika.sk. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ "Volko, Baluch, and Dömötör did not advance from the heats". Teraz.sk. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ "Slovak athletes finished in 9th place in the II. division of the European Team Championships". Teraz.sk. 30 June 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Team Championships Second Division". World Athletics. 29 June 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. 24 July 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "Slovak athlete Patrik Dömötör won bronze in the 400 m". Teraz.sk. 24 July 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ "Dömötör with a new championship record, Volkov's 10th anniversary triumph". Teraz.sk. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ "Dömötör ran under 49 seconds in the 400m dash for the first time in his career". Teraz.sk. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
- ^ "Results - Athletissima Lausanne Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 16 September 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
- ^ "2025 World Championships in Tokyo: Nine athletes will definitely go to Japan, head coach Libor Charfreitag believes in two finals: I do not rule out that Emma will reach for a medal". atletika.sk. 30 August 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.