Athletics

Sandra Perković, Sandra Kolak, Darko Kralj, Primus Kozmus – Olympic and Paralympic medal winners, European and world champions, sports federations from Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria and Croatia have chosen Medulin as the venue for their preparations for various competitions.

Next to the Hotel Park Plaza Belvedere, there is a clay athletics track with four lanes and four areas for shot put, discus and javelin. Runners have at their disposal cross-country trails that extend for 14 kilometres in the immediate vicinity of the sea.

In addition to the services available at the Medulin sports centre, the Hotel Park Plaza Belvedere also offers additional services for athletes, who can use the fitness centre equipped with modern Technogym machines, while the modern gym offers platforms for Olympic weightlifting, a variety of dumbbells and Olympic bars, plyometric boxes, wall bars, and various benches. There are also two pools with heated seawater, the smaller being 8x13 metres and the larger one 25x13 metres.

Athletics races:

Medulin sports centre caters for all the needs of athletes. This can be confirmed by the numerous participants at the annual Road Race Medulin Riviera 10 K. The race course complies with IAAF and AIMS standards and passes through the most attractive parts of Medulin right by the coast.

The KLC Marathon is one of the traditional sports events that take place in April in Medulin. It is organised for its members by an athletics club from Klagenfurt in Austria.