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History was made at the Sainsbury Birmingham Diamond League meet on Sunday as the javelin stole the headlines

The Olympic champ Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago set a national record of 86.43 in round 3 but was one-upped by Kenya’s Julius Yego in the same round with a throw of 86.53.
Vitezslav Vesely, the 2013 World Champion, who won the great javelin competition earlier in the week in Rome where he had to throw 88.14 to beat the then national record of Yego (87.71) , was having a…

Andreas Thorkildsen has taken to twitter to announced the following.

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Andreas Thorkildsen is the 6th best javelin thrower with the current javelin model. with a personal best of 91.59 that he set back in 2006. Last season he only managed 80.79 in Praha. due to injury.

My opinion on Andreas Thorkildsen Missing this season out.

"I think that the decision that Andreas is making is a sensible decision, missing this season out will allow him to take time in preparing for a good…

Aled Sion Davies is "devastated" that he will not be able to defend his Paralympic F42 discus title after the event was cut from the Rio 2016 Games.The Welshman is also the world and European champion and record holder.

But the 24-year-old will now have to concentrate on the shot put. Davies tweeted: "[International Paralympic Committee] have confirmed they won't be reinstating my discus into Rio 2016 - devastated I won't be able to defend my London 2012 gold."

The Bridgend product won bronze…

Filipino-American thrower Caleb Stuart blew away the competition in the men's hammer throw, setting a new
Southeast Asian Games record on his way to a gold medal performance Tuesday morning in Singapore.

Stuart threw for 65.63 meters, demolishing the old record set by Thailand's Tantipong Phetchaiya (62.23 m).

Phetchaiya finished in second place after throwing 62.12 m, while Malaysia's Jackie Wong threw for 61.18 m.

Another Filipino bet, veteran Arniel Ferrera, threw for 60.08 m and wound up…

SINGAPORE - Singaporean thrower Zhang Guirong successfully retained her SEA Games title on Wednesday in the women's shot put event, throwing a season's best of 14.60m to claim gold. Zhang outperformed two Thais, finishing ahead of Sawitri Thongchao (13.62m) and Areerat Intadis (13.31m) to win her sixth title in the event.

Competing in her seventh SEA Games, the 37-year-old veteran thrower said after her win that while her result is a far cry from her heyday, when she set the national record of…

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Three-time Olympic javelin finalist Goldie Sayers hopes she can help Katarina Johnson-Thompson to heptathlon gold at Rio 2016.Johnson-Thompson underlined her reputation as one of the world’s most talented multi-discipline athletes by breaking the British high jump and indoor long jump records during successive weeks in February.

And 11-time British champion Sayers believes Johnson-Thompson can claim Olympic glory next year but admits current champion Jessica Ennis-Hill remains in…

Jonathan Jones of The University at Buffalo, State University of New York men's track & field team continued his record-breaking ways, winning gold in the shot put and becoming the first national champion in UB's Division I history Wednesday. Now a six-time All-American, Jones had a school-record heave of 20.78 meters on his second attempt to take top honors at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships hosted by Oregon.

He had this to say

"Bringing a national championship back to Buffalo is a dream…

RABAT, June 12 – Kenyan Javelin superstar , Julius Yego is among top athletes expected to light up the Mohammed VI d’Athletisme IAAF World Challenge meeting in Rabat on Sunday.

At the recent IAAF Diamond League meeting in Birmingham, Kenya’s Julius Yego smashed the African javelin record with an almighty world-leading throw of 91.39m, moving him to ninth on the world all-time list.

The performance came under controversial circumstances, however, as it was originally deemed to have landed…

This information was taken from Nordic Sport's official website.

As most of you will know, Nordic Sport is arguably the leading javelin designer out there. In exciting news, they recently announced they have made modification to their carbon range of javelins.

We have improved our 800g carbon javelins by making some changes in the production process.

We made the javelin stiffer in some parts of the javelin for better forgiveness in the release which also reduced the vibration in the javelins

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It's been a long time since an Ivy League thrower claimed the discus crown at the NCAA championship meet - 66 years to be exact.

On Friday, Penn's Sam Mattis ended that drought, winning the men's discus event at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field with a throw of 62.48 meters (205 feet, 0 inches). Yale's Victor Frank won the discus in 1949 with a best throw of 168-91/2.

In his first five attempts in the circle, Mattis was maddeningly consistent, throwing for 61 meters each time. Then, on…

John Ampomah was named the Conference USA Male Field Athlete of the Year Friday.

"He works very hard and is extremely competitive,"

Blue Raiders track and field coach Dean Hayes said:

"He really has shown great potential, and it is a payoff for all the hard work he has put in through the year."

Ampomah, a Ghana native, captured the attention of MTSU and C-USA after throwing a 2015 NCAA-best 81.55 meters at the Penn Relays, winning the competition.

The junior also went on to finish second at…

Taylor Campbell improving the British record twice in the first event of the day was highlight of Day One of the national championships at Bedford. While rain damped some of the performances and at times gave testing conditions there were still strong performances throughout as athletes fought for titles as well as places on the British teams for the respective European Championships.

The Championship was off to a flying start courtesy of Taylor Campbell (Club: Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow,…

Poland’s 2013 IAAF World Championships hammer gold medallist Pawel Fajdek extended his winning streak to nine competitions when he won at the Paavo Nurmi Games, an IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge meeting, with 80.71m in front of a capacity crowd of 12,000 in the Finnish city of Turku on Thursday (25).

It was his second 80m-plus competition in the space of six days after winning at the European Team Championships with 81.64m in Cheboksary, Russia, on Saturday.

Fajdek then took the narrowest of…

On his sixth and last attempt, Ryohei Arai got off the kind of throw he has long been aiming for in an injury-plagued season.

Arai broke the meet record in the men’s javelin with a toss of 84.13 meters on the final day of the Japan championships at Denka Big Swan Stadium on Sunday, giving him a second straight title and a ticket to his first IAAF world championships.

I threw the way I wanted to. It’s been a while since I’ve had that feeling,

While the 24-year-old Arai eclipsed Genki Dean’s…

Chilean athlete Odette Palma has been living in Shrewsbury for three weeks while visiting her boyfriend’s family.

The popular 32-year-old recently qualified for next month’s Pan-American Games – America’s version of the European Championships – in Canada and Palma.

She's been training rigorously at Shrewsbury Athletics Club to keep her skills sharp during her stay, Palma lives and trains in Australia with former Commonwealth Games gold medalist Peter Farmer.

Farmer also taken time out to…

Jessica Ennis Hill has said that she is lacking consistency in the javelin after failing to medal in the final at the British Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Sunday.

The 29-year-old, who won bronze in the 100m hurdles yesterday, could only muster a best throw of 39.84 metres, which left her 12th in the field.

After the result, Ennis-Hill, who returned to action earlier this year following a two-year absence, expressed her disappointment, but insisted that she has "enjoyed" competing…

Kayli Farmer knew as soon as the javelin left her hand she had done something special.

And what she accomplished will give her the opportunity to represent the United States at the Pan American Junior Championships in Canada.

Farmer, a freshman at New Mexico State, saved her best for the biggest stage as she unleashed a throw of 157 feet, 3 inches at the USA Track and Field Junior Outdoor Championships on June 27 in Eugene, Ore.

“I knew the second it came off my hand that it was going to go

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SA’s young guns jetted off to the world youth championships in Cali, Colombia, on Sunday with a secret weapon in their midst — Burger Lambrechts.

The 16-year-old is the son of the former national athlete of the same name who competed at two Olympics and, like his dad, he does the shot put. Officially Lambrechts is ranked fourth in the world, but in training he has…

Colombia - South African javelin thrower Paul Botha launched a personal best throw of 78.49m to win the country's second gold at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Colombia on Sunday.

"I am very happy, I did better than yesterday and it was my goal to come and win with a personal best throw," Botha said.

Bowing out with five medals - two gold, two silver and bronze - it was one of the country’s best performances at the championships since its inception in 1999.

Botha is the third South…

Australian javelin thrower Kimberley Mickle says she's still searching for "that one big one" and hopes to unleash it at the world athletics championships in Beijing next month.

The 30-year-old placed third at Saturday's London Diamond League meet in front of a crowd of more than 50,000 at the city's Olympic Park.

The 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist threw 63.39m, behind Latvian Madara Palameika (65.01) and Czech Barbora Spotakova (65.00).

"I thought I was going to throw better but then

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