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This weeks thrower is of course Germany´s Betty Heidler who threw a new world record 79.42 m.

Betty Heidler was born on October 14th 1983 in Berlin. She crew up in Berlin-Marzahn and moved to Frankfurt at 17 years of age. Heidler then went to a sports boarding school in 2001 and graduated German Federal Police as a federal police officer in 2007. Since 2008 she studies at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe´s University in Frankfurt at Law. In her spare time she loves to read, ride horses, go…

Here´s the video of Betty Heidler throwing the new world record 79.42 m. Comments of Heidler, Harting and Wierig are also translated into English.

Betty Heidler: "The crowd here in Halle was super, weather was perfect and there was no excuse not to throw far. My best performance was technically very good. Now I just need to keep my level at that high."

Robert Harting: "I want to continue as the World Champion of course, it´s actual and concrete, not like a former world champion."

Martin…

Märt Israel (EST) came back to Estonia after a very successful trainingcamp which culminated with a new lifetime best 66.98 m. He wishes to attain a consistency in over 65 meter throws. Israel´s main goal is to win a Gold award from the Universiade and reach the final in the World Championships (Daegu).

Israel said his best throw 66.98 m wasn´t good technically and even now it would not been a miracle to throw a couple of meters further. "When I competed in Chula Vista I felt I could throw…

Halle Werfertage, 21.05.2011 - Germany´s Betty Heidler - the reigning European champion - hammered a massive world record in the women´s hammer throw. With her third round throw 79.42 m she bettered Anita Wlodarczyk´s previous record 78.30 m - which standed since 6 Jun 2010 - by over a meter. Heidler´s previous lifetime best was 77.12 m from 2009. Betty Heidler is coached by Michael Deyhle. Congratulations!

Results…

Halle, Germany, 21.05.2011 - Germany´s favorite -the reigning world discus champion Robert Harting puts on a show in the men´s discus with the world leading throw of 68.99 m. His less known collegue Martin Wierig , also from Germany, surprised with his new lifetime best - massive 67.21 m in the first round. His previous best was 65.79 m, today he had three throws better than that.

Benn Harradine (AUS) threw his seasons best 66.07 which is just under his lifetime best (66.45) while Lithuania´s…

Austria´s "Diskus Werfer" Gerhard Mayer has his 31th birthday today.

Gerhard Mayer (born 20 May 1980 in Vienna) is the discus thrower from Austria. He won the gold award in 2007 University Games in Bangkok. His personal best is 65.24 from 2008. He is coached by Gregor Högler and gets biomechanical help from Aadu Krevald.

Mayer also represented his native country in 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where he finished up 18th. He landed on 8th in 2009 World Championships in Berlin with 63.17…

Latvia's Zigismunds Sirmais,who recently turned 19 years old, stunned everybody when he threw a world junior javelin record of 84.47m at the 11th European Cup Winter Throwing in the Bulgarian capital Sofia few months ago.

He improved the previous mark of 83.87m, set by the reigning Olympic, World and European champion Andreas Thorkildsen back in 2001, and that achievement led to Sirmais being voted as European Athlete of the Month for March.

The javelin is considered to be technically one of…

Kibwe Johnson (Usa), now 29 years old threw 80.09 m in Uberlândia, Brazil (GP Internacional CAIXA/ Sesi De Atletismo, 18 May 2011) and took the 2nd place in the men´s hammer world ranking. He´s the highest ranking American since 2000!

Johnson´s result was also a record of the Meet - previous best was 79.29 m, made in 2009 by Dilshod Nazarov who was 2nd this year with 77.41 m. The bronze went to Igors Sokolovs (Latvia) who threw 75.84 m.

Only the 4th American over 80 meters and the 3rd…

Former World Champion , Estonia´s Andrus Värnik (87.83) started his season with 76.20. It was good enough only for the 3rd place. Risto Mätas (80.53) won with decent 77.37 and Timo Moorast landed on second place with his new lifetime best 76.46.

Competition was held in Tallinn, Kadriorg.

Halle Werfertage ( "Halle´s Throwing Day") is known for its strong competitors and good facilities for throwing events. Best results are often set in Halle and that´s the reason why athletes love this meet so much. Competition will be held on 21-22 May in Halle, Germany.

Startlist includes several world class throwers. In the men´s shot put World leader Dylan Armstrong (21.72) tries to continue his wonderful season, Germany´s Ralf Bartels (21.37), former European shot put champion will do…

The Tech sophomore Julian Wruck set personal and Big 12 meet records Sunday in winning the discus competition with a throw of 63.42. Carl Myerscough, who nearly a decade ago at Nebraska was a three-time NCAA champion shot putter, set the old record in 2004. Wruck´s previous lifetime best standed on 61.88 since 1st April.

It means a lot, really, he said. He was a phenomenal athlete. He was a legendary shot putter and discus thrower. Im glad to feel Im at his level in college. Its a big…

Croatia´s Sandra Perkovic, European Champion 2010, won the 2nd Diamond League meet in Shanghai, yesterday on May 15. Her winning result 65.58 is also a meeting record and almost 3m better than Chinese Yanfeng Li´s second place result 62.73.

Australian Dani Samuels, World Champion 2009, was 3rd with 61.98.

Video:

Women´s Discus, Shanghai Diamond League 2011 [URL:http://macthrowvideo.com/2011ShanghaiWD.wmv]

Discus thrower Märt Israel (EST) is our first Thrower Of The Week. He recently improved his lifetime best Chula Vista - 66.98 - and showed his best shape ever. He is placed 2nd in seasons top list after Gerd Kanter (67.49) so Estonians now have the double lead.

"Märt has so much capacity and is coming out of heavy lifting lately and cannot really control it to 100% in his technique, but great performance by him and much more to come. I think Märt can step up now to be one of the absolute best…

Finland´s former World Champion Tero Pitkamäki won the 2nd Diamond League meet which was held today in Shanghai. He threw 85.33 and leads the Diamond Ranking with 5 points. He repeated the World Leading result which was set by Russian Sergei Makarov.

2-time Olympic Champion Andreas Thordkildsen (NOR) was second with 85.12 (Diamond Ranking 2p, 4th) , he was followed by Robert Oosthuizen (RSA, 83.73, Diamond Ranking 3p, 3th) and Teemo Wirkkala (82.39 SB).

Petr Frydrych (CZE) was 6th with 79.40…

"It was really hard to deal with the competition. The throws in the warm-up came light and easy, but I couldn't manage to do them in the competition . The unrythmic throwing made it hard for me and I had to search for the right throw before every attempt, so the performance was left to the background. But we can be happy, that no-one got injured, because of the tough weather conditions. The competition next week will be different and I have to and I will be on a higher level !" said the…

The reigning World Champion Robert Harting won the competition with 66.92 in Wiesbaden, WLV Werfer Cup 2011. Weather turned out to be rainy and with a strong tailwind although the forecast was sunny.

Martin Wierig proved his super shape with 65.15 which is only a bit less than his lifetime best 65.79. Australian Benn Harradine was 3rd with his seasons best 63.30 and Markus Münch 4th with 62.92 which is also his seasons best which means there will be 3 Germans in World Championships in August.…

The reigning World Champion Germany´s Robert Harting competes today in Wiesbaden. Expected weather conditions during the competition: sunny, +20 degrees, no wind.

Australian Benn Harradine who came from 24h flight does his best to better his seasons best, so does 23 year old Martin Wierig (GER) who´s seasons best is 65.79 which is also his personal best.

In the women´s competition Nadine Müller (GER) tries to put on a great effort after successful season in 2010 with a massive personal best…

Here´s is the video of Omar El-Ghazaly starting his season with 64.79.
Competition was held in Cairo on May 6th.

It was a good start for the season. Below you can see Omar´s results over the years on his first competitions.

*First column is date, second is result in first competition and third column shows final best of his season.
2000 - 55.35 - 55.35
2001 - 49.79 - 51.10
2002 - 48.17 - 48.17
2003 - 58.90 - 58.17
2004 - 59.73 - 61.46
2005 - 61.83 - 64.36
2006 - 65.33 - 65.33
2007 - 60.90 -…

Märt Israel who is in his best shape ever managed to throw his new personal best 66.98 in Chula Vista. His previous best was 66.56 from 2007 in Helsingborg.

His fellow Niklas Arrhenius also threw his personal best. It now stands on 65.80. By the way, did you know that Niklas competes in both - shot put and discus - over a year now? Impressing. His shot put personal best is 19.75 and 19.91 indoors.

Results and videos below:



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1. Märt Israel

EST…

Omar El-Ghazaly, former world junior record holder (65.88 in 2003, 1.75kg) and the reigning African champion is training in his hometown Cairo at the moment. His coach Aleksander Tammert and physiotherapist Siim Altosaar are also there and helping him.

El-Ghazaly recently proved that working with Tammert has been the right choice, 64.79 in Cairo Club Championships was up to their expectations and there is definitely much more to come. It´s remarkable because El-Ghazaly never prepared for this…