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Fotis Tsiolis · Feb 17th 2014

Now that one of the most haunted WR's , the one of Sergey Bubka, has been broken by Renaud Lavillenie

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Do you think if there is a slight possibility for one of the WR's in the throws events to be broken??

Florian van Dijck · Feb 17th 2014

I think there is always a chance to break the WR.
Javelin might be tought due to the fact that no one got even close anymore.
The 90m throwers have past...

Regarding shot put... We will see what the future will bring. There are young talents who might be able to break the world record in a couple of years.

David Storl, Jacko Gill and some more to come.

Regarding the discus... mhh some came really close with Gerd Kanter and Alekna...
In order to be able to break this world record one need the perfect conditions regarding wind. Maybe in Chula Vista or so. But the thrower has to be in top form also.

If Harting would be throwing in perfect conditions in Chula Vista and he is in the right condition he might be able to break it...

Fotis Tsiolis · Feb 17th 2014

I think that Hengelo or even halle would be great competitions for a WR as we have seen there big throws like the 71,84 of Piotr Malachowski .

Florian van Dijck · Feb 19th 2014

The good thing about Halle is that they choose before the competition the best conditions. They have four discus circles for every cardinal direction. Especially for the U23 and top throwers they might even change it half an hour before the competition.
Thats great work!

Thanks to @ReneSack who is also responsible for those changes.

Maddie Walhout · Mar 3rd 2014

The wonderful people at Athletics Weekly weigh-in:

The Unbeatable World Records
It has been quite some month in terms of world records being broken, but what are likely to be the safest global marks in the near future?

Ali Mohammadian · Mar 3rd 2014

Even though it has lasted for decades the men's discus record is always under threat. The aerodynamic nature of the event allows outlier distances.

Thomas Johnson · Mar 3rd 2014

Quote from Ali Mohammadian

Even though it has lasted for decades the men's discus record is always under threat. The aerodynamic nature of the event allows outlier distances.

Not just the mens Discus.
It seems that #Perkovic is doing a great job as well.
Just last weekend she threw above 229' 7" and just today she announced going for the 77m

Robin Claes · Mar 3rd 2014

Quote from Maddie Walhout

The wonderful people at Athletics Weekly weigh-in:

The Unbeatable World Records
It has been quite some month in terms of world records being broken, but what are likely to be the safest global marks in the near future?

thx for the link!
The top 10 list of unbeatable world records is amazing:

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1 Women’s 400m 47.60 Marita Koch 1985 3.3%
2 Women’s discus 76.80m Gabriele Rensch 1988 11.1
3 Women’s shot 22.63m Natalya Lisovskaya 1987 6.5
4 Women’s heptathlon 7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1988 4.8
5 Men’s javelin 98.48m Jan Zelezny 1996 8.7
6 Women’s 100m 10.49 F Griffith-Joyner 1988 2.0
7 Women’s 200m 21.34 F Griffith-Joyner 1988 1.6
8 Women’s long jump 7.52m Galina Chistiakova 1988 3.7
9 Women’s 1500m 3:50.46 Yunxia Qu 1993 2.5
10 Men’s long jump 8.95m Mike Powell 1991 4.6
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Pauline Pauwels · Mar 3rd 2014

Quote from Ali Mohammadian

Even though it has lasted for decades the men's discus record is always under threat. The aerodynamic nature of the event allows outlier distances.

Who do you think is capable of throwing the WR?
#Kanter and #Harting both changed their coaches and its difficult to say if this was the right decision...
And who else is out there who might get even close to that mark of #Schult ?

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