Dessau Javelin Results

Dessau, Germany, May 31st, during the annual Anhalt meeting and despite the bad weather conditions were good results by the javelin throwers produced. Especially the Swedish Rising Star Kim Amb was in a good shape. Tero Pitkamaki won the event with 85.39m (280′ 1″) followed by Kim Amb who smashed his PB with a throw of 84,33m (276′ 8″), German Thomas Röhler threw also a new PB of 83,95m (275′ 5″) to get the third spot. The Double Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen is still struggling to get back to his best shape by finishing 4th with a modest season best of 81.99m (268′ 11″).

Tan Jian won the women discus competition with 62,68m (205′ 7″) followed by Nadine Müller 61,69m (202′ 4″) and Anna Rüh 61,50m (201′ 9″).

1 Tero Pitkämäki FIN  85.39  (280′ 1″)

2 Kim Amb SWE  84.33  (276′ 8″) PB

3 Thomas Röhler GER  83.95 (275′ 5″)  PB

4 Andreas Thorkildsen  82 81.99  (268′ 11″) SB

5 Łukasz Grzeszczuk POL 81.83 (268′ 5″)

6 Bernhard Seifert GER  79.41 (260′ 6″)  PB

7 Lars Hamann GER  78.12 (256′ 3″) SB

8 Till Wöschler GER  74.90 (245′ 8″)

9 Tino Häber GER  71.68 (235′ 2″)

10 David Golling GER  69.90 (229′ 3″)

11 Johannes Vetter GER  69.63 (228′ 5″) SB

12 Christian Ebert GER  66.87 (219′ 4″) SB

The complete results: HERE