The first day of Romanian national championships in Bucharest on Friday produced some good marks, notably hammer thrower Bianca Perie producing a huge personal best of 73.52m.

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Monte-Carlo - The following World record has recently been ratified...

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Belarus’ shot put star Andriy Mikhnevich, the 2003 world champion and 2006 European Athletics Championships silver medallist as well as the 2010 World Indoor Championships silver medallist this winter, laid down the gauntlet to the rest of Europe’s big men with a European-leading mark of 22.09m in Minsk on Wednesday.

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It takes a lot to upstage the Croatia’s High Jump superstar Blanka Vlašić but Latvia’s Māris Urtāns did it when he sent the Shot out to 21.63 at last weekend’s European Team Championships Second League meeting in Belgrade.

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Kuortane, Finland – Norway’s World, Olympic and European champion Andreas Thorkildsen took his first ever victory in Kuortane, as the annual Finnish Elite Games Series got underway for this summer on Saturday (26).

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Wattenscheid, Germany - World champion Robert Harting produced the best result of the day in the men’s events at the DAK Leichtathletik-Gala in Wattenscheid. The German discus thrower won his event on Saturday (26) with 67.62m.

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After setting a new Javelin national record and improving her personal best last week, Spain’s Mercedes Chilla is back in reckoning to climb the podium at next month’s European Athletics Championships in Barcelona.

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Stockholm, Sweden – Andreas Thorkildsen, Norway’s reigning World and Olympic champion, and Tero Pitkämäki of Finland, the 2007 World champion, will continue their legendary rivalry when the Samsung Diamond League series hits the Swedish capital on 6 August with the DN Galan meeting in the city’s historic Olympic Stadium.

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Solid displays in the throwing events provided the key highlights at the European Team Championships 1st and 2nd League competitions in Budapest and Belgrade, respectively, over the weekend.

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Estonia's 2008 Olympic Games Discus gold medallist Gerd Kanter started his summer season with a stunning throw of 71.45m at Chula Vista in California on Thursday.

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Monte-Carlo - The annual international meeting in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday 24 April marks not only the recommencement of the 2010 IAAF World Challenge series of track and field meetings which began in Melbourne, Australia, on 4 March, but also the start of the inaugural season of the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge.

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Estonia's 2005 Javelin world champion Andrus Värnik is aiming to recapture his place among the elite of his event at the European Athletics Championships this summer after two years of injury problems.

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Javelin world record holder and reigning Olympic champion Barbora Špotáková has decided to be even more disciplined than usual in her bid for a gold medal at the European Athletics Championships.

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The 2008 Olympic Games Discus gold medallist Gerd Kanter is not the only Estonian thrower currently in good form.

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At 2.01m tall and 130kg, Robert Harting finds it hard to hide even in a big crown but Germany's reigning Discus world champion knows that, certainly since last summer, he's walking around with a target on his back.

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World champion and World record holder Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland will make her 2010 debut at the Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar on 24 April, the kick-off of the women’s 2010 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge.

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Estonia's reigning Olympic Discus champion Gerd Kanter has the clear target of making up for his upset loss at last year's World Championships by taking the gold medal at this summer's European Athletics Championships in Barcelona.

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Krisztian Pars won the 2008 Olympic Games Hammer silver medal and was the second best thrower in the world last year but on his big day in Berlin last summer he missed out on the medals. Now, the 28-year-old Hungarian wants to make amends at the European Athletics Championships this summer.

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Belarus shot putter Andrey Mikhnevich and German discus thrower Nadine Muller were the stars of the first day of the European Cup Winter Throwing in Arles, France on Saturday.

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The European Cup Winter Throwing meeting has historically provided an early season opportunity for the continent's top throwers to impress and this weekend's competitions in Arles, France, should be no different.

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The European Cup Winter Throwing meeting has historically provided an early season opportunity for the continent's top throwers. Last year, in Los Realejos on the Spanish island of Tenerife, Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk gave a hint of what was to come later in 2009 when she produced what was then a world-leading mark of 75.05m.

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The Netherlands will be sending a strong team to the 10th European Cup Winter Throwing in Arles, France, on 20-21 March with Rutger Smith among the names that catch the eye.

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Belarus' Nadzeya Ostapchuk won the women's Shot Put gold at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on Sunday with a championship record of 20.85m.

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German Ralf Bartels is a consummate championship performer and once again hinted at his medal potential to lead the nine automatic qualifiers with a mighty 20.91m second round heave.

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Doha, Qatar - This preview of the women's events at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Doha, Qatar (12-14 March) is based on entry information received by the IAAF but before the official start lists have been decided.

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Doha, Qatar - This preview of the men's events at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Doha, Qatar (12-14 March) is based on entry information received by the IAAF but before the official start lists have been decided.

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Croatia's 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships women's Discus gold medallist Sandra Perković smashed her national record with 66.85m on Saturday and will be looking to improve even further at the 10th European Cup Winter Throwing in Arles, France, on 20-21 March.

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The 2000 Olympic Games silver medallist Nicola Vizzoni launched the men's Hammer out to 78.22m at the Italian Winter Throwing Championships in San Benedetto del Tronto on Sunday.

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7 March 2010 - Sixteen-year-old Argentinean Braian Toledo bettered the Javelin (700g) World Youth Best by reaching 89.34m on Saturday 6 March in Mar del Plata.

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Andrei and Natalia Mikhnevich are a formidable team and the Belarus husband-and-wife duo are hoping to take back to their Minsk home a pair of Shot Put medals from the forthcoming World Indoor Championships in Doha, which will be held between 12-14 March.

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Minsk, Belarus - Belarusian team for the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships, Doha, Qatar (12 – 14 March) consists of nine athletes, four from them will participate in Shot Put competition.

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Asian Indoor champs day 2

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Javelin world-record holder Barbora Špotáková, the sole Czech medal winner at the IAAF World Championships, has claimed her third successive Athlete of the Year title in the Czech federation's annual poll.

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Discus world champion Robert Harting produced the best individual performance at the SEAT Decanation in Paris on Wednesday evening with a throw of 66.91m, even if it wasn't enough to stop Team USA winning the event ahead of the Germans.

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Stockholm, Sweden - DN Galan had a solid head start on Thursday night when Olympic Champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland twice bettered his personal best and produced a world leading 21.95m in the Shot Put.

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Stockholm, Sweden - DN Galan had a solid head start on Thursday night when Olympic Champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland twice bettered his personal best and produced a world leading 21.95m in the Shot Put.

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Joensuu, Finland – The fourth meeting of Vattenfall Elite Games Series which took place in the small town of Joensuu, proved if proof was necessary why Finland is termed ‘the Javelin Country’, as Finnish throwers cemented their country’s place in the world top-10.

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Cuxhaven, Germany – A good sprint hurdles and a surprise in the men’s Javelin Throw produced the highlights of the Cuxhaven Meeting on Wednesday evening (22 July). But the best result had come a day earlier, when the Shot Put competitions took place separately in the town and Germany’s European champion Ralf Bartels won with 21.11m.

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Reigning Olympic and world Discus champion Gerd Kanter of Estonia continued his impressive run this season with his 20th consecutive win at "Spitzenleichtathletik," a European Athletics Outdoor Premium Meeting in Luzern, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

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Polish hero Tomasz Majewski, the Olympic and European indoor Shot Put champion, delighted the home crowd by defeating reigning world champion and season-leader Reese Hoffa of USA at the 9th European Athletics Festival, a European Athletics Premium meeting, in Bydgoszcz on Wednesday.

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UNIVERSITY PARK – Dave Wollman was only half serious when he suggested a way for discus thrower Margus Hunt to remain at SMU

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Växjö, Sweden - Gerd Kanter, the World and Olympic Discus Throw champion from Estonia, launched the farthest ever indoor discus throw, reaching 69.51m at the World Record Indoor Challenge in Växjö, Sweden.

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Estonia's reigning Olympic Discus champion Gerd Kanter will be looking to pick up at the European Cup Winter Throwing event this Saturday and Sunday, where his compatriots left off at the European Athletics Indoor Championships last weekend.

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Olympic Shot Put champion Tomasz Majewski has set the tone for Torino 2009 with a record breaking performance at the 14th Erdgas Indoor Meeting in Chemnitz on Friday.

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Former European Indoor champion and Olympic bronze medallist Shot Putter Joachim Olsen of Denmark of late has stepped into new shoes and is turning out to be as popular as he been as an athlete.

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The Regional Attourney General of Warsaw has opened an investigation into the sudden death of Polish Olympic gold-medal-winning hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska.

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Close duels at world-class level in the men’s Shot Put and the women’s Pole Vault provided the highlights at the Pedro’s Cup indoor meeting in Bydgoszcz. World Indoor champion Christian Cantwell came through to win the former event on his last attempt ahead of Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski and equal his own world-leading performance of 21.47.

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Barbora Spotakova has enjoyed the perfect year in 2008 winning the Olympic title and setting a world Javelin record.

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Europeans recorded world leading marks in each four of the women's throwing events, but in Beijing the usual success didn't come easy this time. Surprisingly only seven medals came to Europe with three of them golden ones. The best competition was the women's javelin throw where European record was broken twice.

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Traditionally, Europe has dominated men's throwing events, and the pattern continued at the Beijing Olympic Games with European athletes winning 11 medals out of 12 possible.

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INDIANAPOLIS - Olympic gold medalists Bryan Clay and Stephanie Brown Trafton on Tuesday were named winners of the 2008 Jesse Owens Award by USA Track & Field. This marks the first time in their careers that Clay and Brown Trafton have earned this prestigious distinction.

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Olympic Hammer champion Primoz Kozmus was voted as the Slovenian Male Athlete of the Year 2008. The 29-year-old, who fetched Slovenia its first ever Olympic gold medal at Beijing, won the top award for the second year in a succession.

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The 2008 Waterford Crystal European Male Athlete of the Year Andreas Thorkildsen's remarkable year continues as the javelin thrower was accorded with two of Norway's most prestigious awards on Wednesday.

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He is has had a postage stamp made in his honour, he would love to be a singer and would like nothing more than his car pimped. spikesmag.com introduces you to the crazy world of Estonia’s Olympic discus champion Gerd Kanter.

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Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen successfully defended his Olympic men's Javelin title this summer and his triumph in Beijing has been instrumental in him being voted the male Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year 2008.

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The Estonian government has released a postage stamp to honour Beijing Olympic Discus Champion Gerd Kanter.

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Estonia's Olympic gold medallist Gerd Kanter says he now has the credentials to make a serious attempt to break Jürgen Schult's world record of 74.08m, which has stood since 1986.

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Tallinn, the home of Olympic Discus star Gerd Kanter, played a fitting host for the ‘World Discus Challenge' - a team competition that saw some of the World's best Discus throwers lining up in the Estonian capital.

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Stuttgart, Germany - One throw, $130,000, competition over!

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2004 Olympic silver medallist Vadim Vasilevskis was the home star hero at the European Athletics Permit Meeting in Riga yesterday, when he beat this year's Olympic silver medallist and fellow countryman Ainars Kovals and Finland's Harri Haatainen to win the Janis Lusis Cup in Javelin.

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BEIJING — The discus gold medalist clutched a large can of sardines, spun and flung it as far as he could. It sailed past the compact disc, the round cracker, the Oreo and the cabbage head.

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Beijing - A year ago Gerd Kanter produced a huge upset by taking the gold medal at the World Championships in Osaka, when Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania) had been widely regarded as the big favourite. Now the Estonian won again on an even bigger stage: the 29 year-old took the Olympic gold in the Discus Throw on Tuesday night with 68.82m from Piotr Malachowski (Poland/67.82) and the defending champion Alekna (Lithuania/67.79).

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Beijing, China - Tomasz Majewski’s victory in the Shot Put on the opening night of the Athletics competitions last Friday was something of a surprise, and when his Polish compatriot Piotr Malachowski, throwing in seventh position of the twelve Discus Throw finalists, opened with 66.45m, and improved in the next round to 67.82 to establish himself in the lead, we started to wonder was another surprise waiting in the Bird's Nest's wings?

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The Finnish Athletic Federation has selected 20 athletes to represent their country in the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing. Though comparatively small in size, the team includes seven previous major championship medallists and has high hopes for success in China.

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Defending Olympic Javelin Champion Andreas Thorkildsen leads a strong Norwegian team of nine for the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing which begin next Friday.

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Spain has never won an Olympic medal in the throws but Discus exponent Mario Pestano could end that barren streak in Beijing and he even has a good chance of winning his country's first athletics gold medal since they hosted the Games in 1992.

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The Czech Republic may not be quite as wild about Javelin throwing as the Finns but it still has an admirable tradition with Dana Zatapkova and Jan Zelezny having won Olympic gold medals in the past and Barbora Špotáková will be aiming to follow in their footsteps in Beijing.

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2007 European Athlete of the Year Tero Pitkämäki was the star attraction at the European Athletics Permit Meeting in Lappeenranta, Finland on Sunday.

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Estonia's 2007 World Discus Champion Gerd Kanter will be among the featured speakers at the 1st European Discus Conference, entitled "Breaking the Myths", in Talinn, September 17-18.

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World Javelin Champion and European Athlete of the Year Tero Pitkamäki, confirmed his good shape at an international meeting in Finland on Wednesday, with a massive 87.17m opening throw.

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Estonia's reigning men's Discus World Champion Gerd Kanter continued to state his credentials as an Olympic title contender with an impressive 68.32m victory at the Folksam Grand Prix meeting in Sollentuna, Sweden, on Tuesday.

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Berlin, Germany - Lars Riedel, one of the greatest German athletes ever and one of the greatest discus throwers of all time, announced his retirement in Berlin today (2).

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World Discus Champion and current World leader Gerd Kanter will headline for the host nation in what is expected to be an action-packed European Cup in Tallinn (EST).

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Celje, Slovenia – Primoz Kozmus produced a world season leading 81.46m effort in the Hammer Throw to highlight the Celje Dukes International Meeting on Wednesday (18) in this northeastern Slovenian city.

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Harting’s personal best upstages Alekna in Kaunas

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Shocks were the order of the day at the DKB-ISTAF Berlin - ÅF Golden League - meeting on Sunday 1 June 2008, and none greater than the upset in the Discus Throw where the unsung Iranian Ehsan Hadadi muscled aside the Olympic and World champions, Virgilijus Alekna (LTU) and Gerd Kanter (EST).

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Following Asian record holder Ehsan Hadadi's recent Discus success at the Golden League in Berlin, the organisers of European Athletics Premium meeting in Tallinn (EST) have arranged a clash of the continents tonight, between Hadadi and Estonia's World Discus Champion Gerd Kanter.

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Hammer fans should be in for a treat at the European Cup First League match in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 21-22 with Hungary's World leader Krisztián Pars aiming for some big throws in what could be one of the highlights of the weekend.

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Saturday's 34th throwing meeting in Halle, Germany, brought a new personal best for Germany's World Discus silver medallist Robert Harting (67.63m.)

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Kuortane, Finland - Antti Ruuskanen became first Finn to beat World Javelin Throw Champion Tero Pitkämäki in four years.

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Beijing, China – Of the 950 athletes competing in the test event here for the Olympic Games, perhaps only three can have a reasonable expectation of winning gold in August. Two were in action tonight, Liu Xiang qualifying with ease for tomorrow’s men’s 110m Hurdles final and Valerie Vili winning the women’s Shot Put.

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Ukraine's 17-year-old World Youth Champion, Mykyta Nesterenko, confirmed his exceptional talent at the Ukrainian throws meeting in Kiev.

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Turnov – The tenth jubilee of the Ludvik Danek Memorial (former World record holder and Olympic champion) provided excellent highlights. Nearly 2000 spectators saw in cloudy weather (15 degrees) the first ever throw over 70 metres in the country which gave birth to the first ever discus World champion Imrich Bugar, who is the athlete liaison for the meet.

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Lithuania's double Olympic Champion Virgilijus Alekna threw a Czech all-comers record to win his first clash of the season with long term rival World Discus Champion Gerd Kanter.

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Former European Cup Discus Champion and seven-time Spanish Champion Mario Pestano, improved his own Spanish record by a massive 35cm in his final throw of the National Inter-clubs league in Spain (series: f, 64.51, f, 63.12, 65.26, 68.61).

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Czech World Javelin Champion Barbora Spotakova opened her season in World leading style in front of her home crowd at the Ludvik Danek Memorial Meeting in Turnov.

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MODESTO – Christian Cantwell complained two years ago about the shot put being held out of the limelight here on the end of the infield.

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SALINAS, California, May 8 -- Stephanie Trafton continued her stunning improvement in the discus on a brisk, windy afternoon at Hartnell Junior College, throwing 217-1, with two other throws in the 210 range.

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Tero Pitkämäki, reigning European Athlete of the Year, has been slightly out of the spotlight since picking up his trophy at the European Athletics Calendar Conference in Malta last October, but the Finnish javelin thrower is now ready to cast off the winter wraps.

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Estonian World Champion Gerd Kanter has taken lead of the World Discus rankings after his 70.38m clearance in Chula Vista, California on Friday.

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This year's European Cup Winter Throwing Hammer Champion, Marco Lingua (ITA), improved his 77.87m best from the Split Championships, to 78.18m at a local meeting in Terni, Italy last week.

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Hammer thrower Koji Murofushi said Wednesday he plans to make a delayed season debut in June in the run-up to his bid for a second straight Olympic gold medal.

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Russian Athletics Federation took decision to disqualify hammer throwers Tatyana Lysenko and Yekaterina Khoroshikh for two years, the federation’s president and IAAF Council member Valentin Balakhnichov told the All Sports agency.

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Norway's reigning Olympic Javelin Champion Andreas Thorkildsen, will start his season on May 9 in Doha at the Qatar Grand Prix.

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Videogames play an important role in Olympic shot-putter Reese Hoffa's training, but not the way you might think.

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In less than four months, the Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing.

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Reese Hoffa made his 2008 outdoor debut a notable one, winning the Shot Put with at the Spec Towns Invitational in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday (11 Apr).

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PORTLAND, Ore. - This summer, all eyes will be focused on Oregon as Eugene hosts the U.S. Olympic trials and while many of the athletes will come from big schools with big resumes, a small school in Portland is getting on the map.

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Most of the time when people hear something is average, they don't think it is anything special.

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Austin, USA - It was cold and windy, then warm and windy and then cold and windy again, and performances reflected it on the third day of the Texas Relays, as most of the action consisted of qualifying races and high school events.

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Ukrainian throwing protégée, Mykyta Nesterenko managed to improve his own incredible World best performance with a 1.5kg Discus to 74.32m on Sunday.

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Silver in Osaka, second in last weekend’s European Throwing Cup in Split, Germany’s Robert Harting is starting to make it a habit. Before Osaka, not too many outside his own support group of two – girlfriend and coach – would have given him much of a chance of a podium place in the men’s Discus Throw. But he came away with silver and put himself on the wish-list for a medal hope in Beijing in the summer.

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The second day of competition at the European Cup Winter Throwing in Split did not enjoy the same sunny weather as Saturday, but the competition lost none of its excitement!

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There was a replay of the Osaka podium in the men's Discus competition on this first day of the 8th European Cup Winter Throwing in Split (CRO).

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The Ukrainian Athletics Federation is proud to announce a young and improving team for the European Cup Winter Throwing in Split this weekend.

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The Estonian team for the 8th European Cup Winter Throwing to be held on March 15 and 16 in the Croatian city of Splt, will be led by reigning World Discuss Champion Gerd Kanter.

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Mac Wilkins is still pretty awesome after all of these years.

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Valerie Vili is on the top of the world again, adding the world indoor shot put title in Valencia this morning, to the outdoor title won in Osaka last year.

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VALENCIA, Spain - Christian Cantwell reclaimed his World tile and Reese Hoffa picked up a silver medal , while Angela Williams added a gold to her medal collection Friday night at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Track & Field Championships.

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Defending Shot Put champion Reese Hoffa means business. As he did in Moscow two years ago, the 30-year-old American led all qualifiers in the opening round, and he did so here with class, reaching a season’s best 21.49m.

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With the competition areas of the Velódromo Luis Puig” especially resurfaced for the 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships, Valencia, Spain (7 – 9 March), with the same covering as will be used for 2008 Olympic Games, and many of the world’s top athletes breaking their winter training schedule to compete, the athletics world is preparing for three days of exciting action in the venue which hosted the 1998 European Indoor Championships.

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BOSTON - Adam Nelson lost the national title but won the Visa Championship, while Lolo Jones took the women's Visa title Sunday at the 2008 AT&T USA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center, on the campus of Roxbury Community College.

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Valerie Vili combined a world class shot put victory with acceptance of the sportswoman of the year and the supreme award in the Halberg Awards at the new Douglas track and field stadium in Waitakere City last evening.

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Commonwealth Games cult hero Scott Martin underlined his Olympic potential last night by producing his third A-qualifying shot of the season to steamroll opposition at the Athletics Australia Cup.

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New York City, USA – Adam Nelson set a Madison Square Garden record in the Shot Put and Bernard Lagat moved closer to another one with a win in the Wanamaker Mile to highlight the 101st Millrose Games on Friday night (1 Feb).

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Canberra, Australia – New Zealand’s visiting World Champion Valerie Vili confirmed her Olympic title intentions when she launched the shot 19.72m to win the Australia Day national series meet in the Australian capital today.

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Weighing in at just over 120kg, and an imposing 1.96m tall, this weekend’s 5-Minute Interviewee is a true heavy weight contender! It is perhaps no surprise that this 28-year-old Estonian used to be a wrestler... but a wannabe popstar is harder to imagine!

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Fresno, California, USA – Reese Hoffa isn’t holding anything back when it comes to the indoor season in the Shot Put. Yesterday, the reigning indoor and outdoor World champion kicked off what will be a hectic indoor campaign with a win at 21.06m in the USA vs. The World competition in the Run for the Dream Invitational at the Save Mart Center (21 Jan).

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The reigning world champion outdoors and indoors in the shot put, Reese Hoffa spoke on Monday with the New York Track Writers and media from around the country via conference call.

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Denmark’s only female Athletics medal-hope in Beijing, javelin thrower Christina Scherwin is looking more optimistic in terms of her participation at the Olympic Games.

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To mark the end of our ‘2007 in review' series we thought we would have one final fling and bask in the glory of the outstanding success of Europe's female throwers...

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"How are you everyone? The year (2007) has come to an end. Because this year’s World Championships in Athletics were held in Osaka, I would imagine that many people have started to like Japan.

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Growing up in the western Estonian village of Tiduvere, World Discus Throw champion Gerd Kanter dreamed of becoming not a track and field athlete but a star of the NBA basketball courts. He had a poster on his wall of iconic Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan but his hopes were dashed when a sports school refused to accept him to play his boyhood passion.

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The end of the year is traditionally a period to spend time with friends and family and reflect on the ups and downs of the year that has passed. So as we enter 2008, we invite you to reflect on what has been a successful year for our sport in Europe.

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Monte-Carlo - In the second part of their eight peice review of the highlights of the 2007 Athletics year, A. Lennart Julin and Mirko Jalava survey the THROWS.

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Germany has been the envy of the World when it comes to its men's Discus throwers, and emerging star Robert Harting looks set to continue this trend. Germany has been the envy of the World when it comes to its men's Discus
throwers.

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World Champion Valerie Vili nailed her opening competition of the season with an emphatic shot put of 19.24m at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium last evening.

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