Zoltán Wahl
Hungarian athlete
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Zoltán Wahl (born 27 April 2000) is a Hungarian track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2023 he became Hungarian national champion over 200 metres and 400 metres. He was a bronze medalist in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
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Wahl at the 2025 World Indoor Championships | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Hungarian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 April 2000 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 200m: 20.90 (Budapest, 2023) 400m: 46.32 (Budapest, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
A member of BMTE athletics club in Budafok, Budapest.[2] Wahl was part of the Hungarian 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2022 European Athletics Championships. Along with Tamás Máté, Dániel Huller, and Attila Molnár, he was part of the 4 × 400 m indoor relay team that broke a 23-year-old national record, running 3:08.58 in February 2023.[3] In 2023, Wahl won the Hungarian U23 title over 400 metres.[4]
He ran a new personal best of 20.92 seconds whilst competing as part of the Hungary team that participated at the 2023 European Team Championships and achieved promotion by winning Division Two.[5] In July 2023, he won the 200m and 400m at the 2023 Hungarian Athletics Championships.[6] He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, named in the 200m and 400m individual races, as well as the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m men's relay races, and the 4 × 400 m mixed relay.[7] He improved his personal best by two hundredths in the 200 metres at the Championships heats, running 20.90 seconds.[8]
He won a bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, in a new indoor national record time of 3:06.03, alongside Árpád Kovács, Patrik Simon Enyingi and Atilla Molnar.[9][10]
Wahl was selected for the relay pool at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.[11] He ran in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay on the last day of the championships, as the Hungarian team placed sixth in the final.[12]