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Robert Urbanek (29 April 1987) is a Polish Olympic discus thrower. His personal best is 66,93m (219′ 7″), thrown in 2012 in Halle Germany. Along with taking home bronze from the Moscow World Championship last summer, fan favorite Urbanek also has a European Championships bronze medal and placed 6th at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

Season bests:
2005 … 52,68 m (172′ 10″) 1.75 kg
2006 … 57.32 (188′ 0″) 1.75 kg | 50.84 (166′ 9″) 2 kg
2007 … 56,18m (184′ 4″)
2008 … 62,22m (204′ 1″)
2009…

Tomáš Staněk (born 13 June 1991) 1st donned the Czech team kit in 2013 with a useful 5th with his 19,18m at the European U23 Championships in Tampere Finland. In 2015 he did not go through to the final with his 19th place 19,64m. In 2015 he set his personal best of 20,94m in Łódź.

Zylstra: What do you need to work on, improve?
Staněk: I need to get stronger in gym while staying as fast as I am now. My preparation for Olympic are the same as in other seasons. We are doing same practice…

Cory Martin (22 May 1985) is a US American shot putter. His best international outing so far is a 9th place at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. Martin's personal best is a monster 22.10 meters (72' 6 "), set on a sunny day in Tucson Arizona on the 22nd of May of 2010, drops him at #19 [URL:https://throwholics.com/index.php?tagged/708-19/] on the earth's all-time shot put list.

Zylstra: What do you need to work on, improve?
Martin: Staying healthy. It's been a constant struggle to have…

Over the last few weeks a video of Joe Kovacs back squatting 770 pounds has gone viral. My first thoughts were, “How mad is (Kovacs’ coach] Art [Venegas] going to be that this was posted on the internet?” and “That’s normal for a world class shot putter at that size.”

See discussion of Vern Gambetta's post here [URL:https://throwholics.com/2016/03/kovacs-big-lift-when-is-there-too-much-strength/].

Then a firestorm of opinions about the squat were posted, many in a slightly negative…

On site report from Mr Mattis:The Penn meet was absolutely miserable conditions: 43 degrees, no wind and snow before and during the meet. This is what most folks don't understand about Sam. He threw 218 in high school and was routinely throwing between 220 and 227 in practices. We thought he had a great shot at setting the HS discus record. As a sophomore he was only 4 feet behind Crouser's HS sophomore class record. Last year he was throwing between 210 and 217 in practices. However, the Ivy…

On a weekend when track & field's big hitters are uncover in Portland for the World Championships, 2015 U23 US Univeristy discus champion Sam Mattis (University of Pennsylvania) found friendly conditions at his home field and threw a 1st round 67,45m (221' 3") at the Philadelphia College Classic. Mattis' mark is the #1 [URL:https://throwholics.com/index.php?tagged/495-1/] throw in the world, passing Spaniard Lois Martínez's 65,73m (215' 7") from the 1st of February.

While the opener is…

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[caption id="attachment_15456" align="alignright" width="300"] Three world class girls getting ready for some shot putting[/caption]

Jill Camarena-Williams (born 2 March 1982) is a US American shot putter and member of fourteen international teams. Those teams include seven World Championship squads and the 2008 Peking [URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_shot_put] (12th 18,51m 60' 8¾" SB) and 2012 London…

Jon Jones (23 April, 1991) is a 6’0″ 310 lb shot putter from the United States. He took 4th at the 2014 USA Championships with a personal best of 20,75m (68’1″) and 3rd at the 2016. Jones punched his ticket to the Indoor World Championships in Portland at this weekend's US Trials.

Jones was a baseball and US American football player until his 3rd year in high school when he gave-up 3rd base on the diamond for the ring.

5.44kg (12 lb)
2009 ... 14,93m (49' 0")
2010 ... 17,32m (56' 10")
7.26kg…

Jared Schuurmans (20 August, 1987) is a US American discus thrower. He holds a personal record of 66,10 m (216' 10") for the event, set in 2015. He was the national champion in 2015.

Schuurmans won an NAIA discus title in 2010 while at Doane College. He was the silver medalist at the 2014 Pan American Games and in 2015 he placed 4th at the Pan American Games.

season bests :
1.6kg
2003 … 37,50m (123′)
2004 … 48,15m (158′)
2005 … 52,15m (171′)
2006 … 59,56m (195′ 5″)
2kg
2007 … 50,24m (164′…

Recently a video of fan favorite and world champion shot putter Joe Kovacs squatting 770 pounds has been zipping around the internet. Philosopher Vern Gambetta asked a question [URL:https://www.facebook.com/vern.gambetta/posts/10206041096050683] and that has sparked an interesting discussion drawing in other great minds. Below is the text posted as we publish, have a read and join in.

Vern Gambetta
11 March at 1:19pm
I always ask- How much strength is enough? Saw where Joe Kovacs squatted 770…

Jason Young (born May 27, 1981) is an American discus thrower who competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, finishing 19th. At Texas Tech, Young was a two-time All-American in track and field and placed 2nd in the discus at the 2004 NCAA Outdoor Championship. In 2010 and 2011, he was the runner-up in discus at the USA Championships. He finished 2010 as the number two ranked discus thrower in the world with his personal best at 69,90m (229' 3"), and has been ranked among the top ten in the…

Jason Morgan (born 6 October 1982) is a Jamaican discus thrower. On June 6, 2015 he set his national record at 68,19 meters . He won the gold medal at the 2010 and 2011 Central American and Caribbean Games–the bronze medal the the 2012 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. He's also competed at the 2007 (28th), 2011 (18th) and 2015 (22nd) World Championships and 2012 London Olympics (39th).




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Niklas Arrhenius (10 September 1982 in Provo, Utah) is an Olympic discus thrower competing for Sweden.

Zylstra: What do you need to work on this off-season?
Niklas: I need to get healed-up from some lingering injuries, fine tune some technical cues and work on overall fitness and speed. I can also work on the mental side of competing.

Zylstra: How are you going to get better?
Niklas: My coach and I have created a plan for my current situation and how to accomplish these things I need to work…

AMES IOWA USA Nineteen-year-old Raven Saunders (15 May 1996) moved up the all-time women's shot put list with today's 19,23m (63' 1 ¼") at the Iowa State Classic (results) [URL:http://results.deltatiming.com/tf/2016-iowa-state-classic/160212F033]. The South Carolinian and Ole' Miss sophomore jumped 2-time Olympian Tia Brooks' collegiate record of 19,22 m (63' 0 1⁄2") from 9 March 2013 by the slightest of margins. When Tia heard the news she texted me:
Huge congrats to Raven and Coach Smith at…

Back in 1996 the current javelin world record was set at a remarkable 98,48m. It was set by the most well known javelin thrower–an athlete that will most likely always be in your personal all-time top-10.
Jan Zelezny (Czech Republic) is most known for throwing the current men's javelin world record, he was such an remarkable athlete with 53 of the total 99 throws over 90 meters, Zelezny turning pro back in 1986 at the same time that the javelin specifications were changing, from the old rules…

Stephen Mozia (16 August 1993) is a Nigerian shot putter. His parents and older siblings were born in Nigeria but moved to the United States for academic reasons and ended up staying. When his parents could afford it the family traveled back to Nigeria and so Mozia has been a dual citizen since pretty young.

Mozia's track and field journey began in a traditional US American way, getting ready for another sport–he wanted to improve his footwork for basketball. A self-described 'goofy freshman',…

Hi there throwers I wrote my last post for Throwholics back in September "Walsh reflects on breakthrough season" [URL:https://throwholics.com/2015/09/walsh-reflects-on-breakthrough-season/] and since then like all throwers I spent a lot of time reflecting on the past season and what I need to do to improve, as well as recovering from injury's, working hard on my training sessions, and also just having some time off. but I thought that I would be nice to write a post for Throwhoilics and reflect…

Michael Carter, the greatest thrower (Olympic silver) / footballer (NFL All-Pro) in our time.

Current Alabama Football Players who threw in High School
*most number pulled from MileSplits article [URL:http://www.milesplit.com/articles/173214-alabama-wins-national-championship-with-56-track-athletes]





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Jonathan Allen [URL:http://sports.yahoo.com/usf/football/recruiting/player-Jonathan-Allen-125805]

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Konrad Bukowiecki (17 March 1997) is a Polish shot putter. He won the gold medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships and at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. In addition, he currently holds the junior indoor world record with the 6kg implement, as well as world youth indoor bests with the 6kg and 5kg implements. In his debut at the senior level competition, he finished sixth at the 2015 European Indoor Championships with the European absolute best with the 7.26 kg shot.

His best…

Roland Varga (22 October 1977) is a Hungarian–Croatian Olympic discus thrower. An U20 decathlete (6,721 in 1995), his personal best throw is 67,38m (221' 0", June 2002 in Veszprém). Since 2009 Varga has competed for Croatia and in 2010 set a national record with 67,20m (220' 5").





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1990

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33,08m

108' 6"



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1991

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46,44m

152' 4"



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1992

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56,44m

185' 2"



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