Olympian from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mesud Pezer from Zenica won first place and a gold medal at the Balkan Athletics Championship for senior women and men outdoors, which is being held today and tomorrow in Kraljevo.
Already in the first series, Pezer threw 20.11 meters and took the lead in the fight for gold, and he never lost the leading position. In the second series, he threw 20.26 meters, and he won with a shot from the last, sixth series, when, after having failed shots the previous two times, he threw the ball to a length of 20.55 meters.
Serbian Asmir Kolašinc was second with 20.07 m, and Greek Odyesseas Mouzendis was third with 19.54 m. Our second representative, Sarajevan Nermin Štitkovac, won 10th place with a shot of 16.84 meters.
Pezer thus became the champion of the Balkans for the second time outdoors, and for the fifth time in total, because in 2017, also in Serbia, but then in Novi Pazar, he won outdoors with a shot of 20.11 meters. He won the title of the Balkan indoor champion three times in a row and all three years in Istanbul, Turkey – in 2018 with a throw of 20.77 m, in 2019 with a throw of 20.22 m and in 2020 with a throw of 20.75 meters.
For the past three years, Pezer has also been a member of BH state champion, and the owner of both state records in the shot put – outdoors 21.48 m from 2019 and indoor 21.15 m from 2018.
He is also the owner of the national BH record for the age of up to 20 years – 20.44 meters, with which he became European champion under 20 years in 2013, in Italy.
