Brzozowski takes the shot put Gold

Krzysztof Brzozowski dominated the men’s shot put final on the first evening of the 21st  European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn today to hand Poland its first gold with a world leading throw of 20.92.

Brzozowski led from round one when he unleashed the put to 20.36, a distance only he and Italy’s Daniele Secci have beaten this year. The shaven-headed putter went on to throw 20.29 in the second, had a long 20m+ foul in round four, and landed his longest effort in five.

That was not only 31cm longer than his previous lifetime best, but a Polish junior record and a distance only Germany’s David Storl has beaten at these championships  the incredible world junior record holder won with 22.44 in Novi Sad two years ago.

I am very happy but that is no surprise, said the understated Brzozowski. This competition was very important to me, I have been training about six or seven months for this.

I was surprised to have achieved this result but I am very happy because the crowd here is great.

Secci snatched silver with a last round effort of 20.45 leaving Germany’s Christian Jaguschi to collect the bronze.

Source: european-athletics.org