Athletics preserves a timeless spectacle of effort and emotion, mind and body, strength and feeling. This was once again the case at the tenth Indoor Meeting in Serbia’s capital. With the organization of the World Indoor Championships in 2022, Serbian athletics and the Serbian Athletics Federation set the bar for this competition at the highest […]
Athletics preserves a timeless spectacle of effort and emotion, mind and body, strength and feeling. This was once again the case at the tenth Indoor Meeting in Serbia’s capital.
With the organization of the World Indoor Championships in 2022, Serbian athletics and the Serbian Athletics Federation set the bar for this competition at the highest possible level, as confirmed by World Athletics. Just when you think it can’t get any better, Serbian athletics proves you wrong—because the work never stops, and with it comes continuous improvement and the expansion of a championship sports story, both in organization and results.
The latest proof of great effort, dedication, and an excellently executed event by the Serbian Athletics Federation is the recently concluded “Gold Belgrade Indoor Meeting.” The Athletic Hall in Belgrade hosted the tenth jubilee indoor meeting, which, as of this year, has earned “gold” status, placing Serbia among just nine indoor meetings worldwide in 2025. A total of 130 athletes from 50 countries competed, shining on the grand athletics stage in a spectacular setting alongside reigning Olympic champions, world and European stars of the “queen of sports.”
The competition started with a bang, with two Belgrade Indoor Meeting records and one national record set during the qualification rounds. In the 60m dash, Italy’s Zaynab Dosso broke the record with a time of 7.08, while the 60m hurdles record fell to the Netherlands’ Nadine Visser with 7.94. Serbia’s Anja Lukić set a new national record in the 60m event.
New records continued to fall at the “Belgrade Indoor Meeting.” Hungary’s Attila Molnár clocked 45.66 in the 400m, setting another Meeting record. Serbia’s Maša Rajić broke the national 800m record, finishing eighth in the final with a time of 2:07.57. The third-fastest man in history, American sprinter Ronnie Baker, kicked off his 2025 season with a 6.53 in the 60m, marking the fourth-fastest time in the world this year and another Meeting record.
A highlight of the event was the participation of the world’s best young athlete, Angelina Topić, in the high jump. She justified her status as the favorite, claiming gold with a height of 1.92m.
For Serbian athletics fans, the most emotional moment of the competition was the farewell throw of legendary shot putter Asmir Kolašinac. His final competitive throw reached 19.49m, earning him fifth place at the 2025 Indoor Meeting in Belgrade. With that, Asmir officially retired from competition, cementing his legacy in Serbian athletics.
The biggest star of the “Gold Belgrade Indoor Meeting” 2025 was Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou, the reigning Olympic long jump champion from Tokyo and Paris, a winner of all major global and European championships, and the current world and European champion. Tentoglou, who won his first world title in Belgrade in 2022, finished fourth at this year’s Meeting with a jump of 8.05m. The gold went to Sweden’s Tobias Montler, the 2023 Diamond League winner, with a leap of 8.23m.
The entire event was broadcast live on TV Arena.
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Ten candles on the cake and the prefix “golden.” Well deserved! Years of hard work, dedication, investments, and consistent efforts to elevate quality and participation have led to numerous international medals and earned the Serbian Athletics Federation and the Belgrade Indoor Meeting a status shared by only nine countries worldwide. As of 2025, the “Belgrade […]