 At the end of the year he took part in the Pál Németh Memorial (a meeting in honour of his mentor Pál Németh), winning his second title of the competition with a throw of 78.34 metres.In the 2012 London Olympics he took the gold in the hammer throw with a winning toss of 80.59 m.

On 10 April 2018, he was banned until July 2019 because of a doping violation.He apologized everybody for making in a hard situation a bad decision in a birthday party, being drunken tried something never before.