What are the first impressions when meeting Russia’s European Discus Throw champion Darya Pishchalnikova?

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European Athlete of the Year, Tero Pitkamaki, has shown just how important athletics is in his native Finland by being crowned Finnish Sportsman of the Year by the country's top sports journalists.

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World Hammer Champion Betty Heidler hopes to be fully fit and ready to start her Olympic campaign at the European Throws Challenge in Split in March.

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The World’s number shot putter Reese Hoffa, the reigning World Indoor and outdoor champion, plans to dodge no-one in his quest to retain his standing and is targeting a successful defence of his World indoor crown at the 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships, Valencia, Spain (7 – 9 March 2008).

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For European Athletic Athletes of the Year, Blanka Vlasic and Tero Pitkamaki, life has become a glittering array of film premieres and Presidential parties!

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World Shot Put champion Valerie Vili has started her preparations for the Olympic Games in Beijing next summer. Despite a heavy schedule of training and work, she explains how she takes the time to help the fight against cancer.

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Ask questions to World Hammer Throw champion Betty Heidler and the articulate, bright athlete is only to happy to oblige.

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Gabrielle Oerter’s goal was simple as she contemplated her move to Fort Myers from Palmer Lake, Colo., earlier this year.

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Ljubljana, Slovenia - Primoz Kozmus, the World Championships silver medallist in the Hammer Throw, was named Slovenia's Athlete of the Year for 2007 at a ceremony in Ljubljana on Saturday.

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While Managers, Coaches and Ukrainian athletic fans sit with baited breath and wait for the next great performance from Mykyta Nesterenko, the 16-year-old throwing sensation just sleeps, eats his favourite food and throws the Discus.

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Prague, Czech Republic - Barbora Špotáková, the women’s World Javelin champion for this year, has been selected in a survey of the Czech Athletic Federation as the Czech Athlete of the Year, and was presented with the award on stage at Gala evening (10).

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On 6 October, my husband Bertrand took me away for a nice weekend in Taupo for my birthday. It’s always great to get away and relax, especially without any athletics commitments, and Taupo is such a beautiful part of New Zealand.

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On the night of the Hungarian Athletic Federation's 110 year celebrations, Hammer thower, Krisztian Pars and 400m runner, Barbara Petrahn, were awarded the honour of Hungarian Athlete of the Year.

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If there was a multi-event competition purely for throws then Rutger Smith would be a pretty fearsome competitor.

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Olympic and World Shot Put medallist, Nadine Kleinert is boosting her 2008 Indoor training with a shot of Rocky-style adrenaline, by mixing boxing classes in with her regular Shot Put training,

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Olympic hopeful Dani Samuels has been training with Elvis Presley for the last week. Well, not really Elvis, but he is known as "the King" of discus throwing.

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The 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medallist and four-times world record breaker Mac Wilkins arrives in Sydney tomorrow to work with promising junior discus thrower Dani Samuels.

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Hyderabad, India - Asian record holder Zhang Wenxiu from the People’s Army of China successfully defended her title in women’s Hammer throw with a new Games Record, which measured to 72.25m, in the 4th CISM World Military Games here on Monday (15 Oct).

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Marin Premeru, double World Youth Shot Put silver medallist in Ostrava, registered a new World best for his category on Saturday at the Croatian Club League event.

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Heroes don't seem so heroic these days.

Each time the masses crown the next superstar, he or she lets us down. I mean, sainthood isn't expected here, but a little decency or fair play would help.

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Magdeburg, Germany- German shot putter Nadine Kleinert is toying with a boxing career after the Beijing Olympics or later, and has received an offer from the SES Magdeburg boxing club.

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World championships finalist Koji Murofushi who was a respecatble third at the recent IAAF World Athletics Final shares his pride in his home country Japan, having hosted the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics.

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Tero Pitkämäki has achieved another first to add to his illustrious season, he is the first ever Finnish athlete to be voted the male Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year.

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World champion and World Athletics Final runner up Valerie Vili has finally come to the end of a very long but fantastic season which saw her become her country's second gold medal winner at the IAAF World Championships with a new Oceania record 20.54m.

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Four-time Olympic gold medalist, former world record holder and National Track & Field Hall of Famer Al Oerter died Monday of heart failure in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. He was 71.

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Monte-Carlo - Al Oerter (USA), who won gold medals in four straight Olympic Games in the Discus Throw, has died today. He was 71-years-old.

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Stuttgart, Germany - International athletics is a sport of diversity and contrasts.

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Stuttgart, Germany – Hundreds of buses carried spectators to last Sunday’s IAAF Golden League meeting in Berlin, and among the many vehicles also travelling this weekend to the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Stuttgart, Germany (22 / 23 Sep) there will be two very special coaches full of supporters from the small city of Offenburg. This is the hometown of Christina Obergföll.

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The Athletics Bridge European Athletics Permit meeting in Dubnica, Slovakia celebrated it's fifth year with a fantastic meeting that brought together nearly 150 athletes from 27 countries and four continents, amongst them were five Osaka World Champions, five Olympic Champions from Athens, and six current World Leaders.

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Stuttgart, Germany - The IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final takes place in Stuttgart, Germany, on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September 2007. We begin our Event Category Previews with the THROWS.

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Helsingborg, Sweden – Finn Frantz Kruger may have disappointed his new country by failing to qualify for the World Championships Discus Throw final in Osaka, but today it was all good news for the former South African, the 2000 Olympic bronze medallist, who released a mammoth 69.97m to not only break the Finnish record but beat the new World champion in the process.

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Newly-crowned World Javelin Champion, Barbora Spotakova, will headline the action at the European Athletics Premium Meeting in Linz, Austria tonight, where crowds of up to 15,000 people are expected gather at the city's Gugl Stadium for the 20th anniversary of the Linz Gugl-Meeting.

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Osaka, Japan - It was the 17th and final session of the World Championships on Sunday and Finland was still waiting for its first medal, still waiting for even a top-eight finisher. Then along came the men’s javelin and Tero Pitkamaki. Suddenly it was as if night had turned into day. Or winter into summer.

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Osaka, Japan - When Barbora Spotakova took the javelin gold at Nagai Stadium, it caused quite a surprise to most observers. But not to Jan Zelezny. In fact, the Czech javelin legend had predicted success for Spotakova. The 26-year-old won the event with a national record of 67.07m from the main favourite Christina Obergföll, the European record holder who reached 66.46m for second.

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Osaka, Japan – “Franka Dietzsch was my role model yesterday,” said an overjoyed Betty Heidler after taking the women’s Hammer Throw title with a throw of 74.76m. “She inspired me. I thought if she can win this and I can to a day later, that would be huge. And it would be just so great if we meet together tonight with two gold medals.”

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Firstly, I must thank all the people back in New Zealand for supporting me. The messages of support in the lead-up to the competition were just amazing. I must also thank my coach Kirsten, my Husband Bertrand and our families for their support and encouragement. I also think of my Mum and Dad who couldn’t be here to share in my achievements…

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The incredible Franka Dietzsch takes a third World Championship gold in her ninth World Championship event.

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Osaka, Japan - Hardly could the Discus Throw final have produced more surprises: First of all, the name of the new World champion in the discus is not Virgilijus Alekna.

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Estonia's Gerd Kanter, has gone from silver to gold. The 2005 World Discus silver medallist has emerged from the mighty shadow of Lithuanian super star Virgilijus Alekna, as World Discus Champion.

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OSAKA, Japan, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Estonia's Gerd Kanter grabbed world championship discus gold on Tuesday to hand Lithuania's double defending champion Virgilijus Alekna his first taste of defeat in two years.

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World Hammer Champion, Ivan Tsikhan, has claimed his third World Championship gold with a World leading throw of 83.63m

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Osaka, Japan - Five World titles! Now that’s a coaching partnership in anyone’s estimation. When Ivan Tikhon (Tsikhan) from Belarus with a world season leading mark of 83.63m successfully defended the Hammer Throw title in Osaka which he had won in Paris 2003 and Helsinki 2005 he sealed a formidable hat-trick of World titles which even upstaged his coach’s formidable World championship reputation.

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Osaka, Japan - The first thing that Valerie Vili did after it was confirmed that her last attempt in the shot had moved her from second to first, snatching the title from defending champion, Nadezhda Ostapchuk of Belarus, was to dance, arms aloft across the track to a television camera, and mouth, “I love you mum and dad.” It was a message that had to travel somewhat further than Vili’s homeland of New Zealand. As she explained at the press conference, “This was dedicated to my late mum and dad, my dad died recently, and my mum died just before the Sydney Olympics.”

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Valerie Vili with a brilliant last round, which she dedicated to her Dad, won the World Championship shot put title in Osaka last evening.

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25 August 2007 – Osaka, Japan - After winning his first global outdoor title in the men’s Shot Put tonight – winning by a comfortable 43cm margin with a 22.04m effort - Reese Hoffa thanked the man he had displaced as World champion – his training partner, Adam Nelson – and his father for giving him the “competitive fire”. But it is the literal fire – the one that Hoffa started when he was four years old and which burned down the family home – that will live as long in his memory as any sporting success.

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OSAKA, Japan (AFP) - Olympic hammer-throw gold medallist Koji Murofushi is determined to remain as unflappable as his hero samurai swordsman, despite his slow build-up to the world championships on home turf.

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Looking to the Throwing Events, the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Osaka, Japan (25 Aug to 2 Sep) will host a slew of solid medal favourites along with some compelling head-to-head competitions.

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Croatian High Jumper Blanka Vlasic, and Lithuanian Discus thrower Virgilijus Alekna, have been voted the European Athletes of the Month for July.

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Minsk, Belarus - Nadzeya Ostapchuk’s 20.27 throw in the Shot Put was the highlight of the Mikhail Zhelobovski meeting (11) in Minsk, a competition celebrating one of the most eminent middle distance runners from Belarus.

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Kuortane, Finland - Olli-Pekka Karjalainen produced the best performance at the fifth and final meeting of the Finnish Federation’s annual Eliittikisat-series in Kuortane on Sunday (12).

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Bangkok, Thailand - Finland's Johanna Manninen became the fastest woman and added the 100m win to the 4x400m gold on Saturday on the third day (11) of athletics competition at the 24th World University Games in the Thai capital.

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Havana - World and Olympic champion Osleidys Menéndez decided to skip the upcoming 11th IAAF World Championships in Osaka as she has not fully recovered from an injury in her right leg.

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Tero Pitkämäki’s qualification and final performances highlighted the Finnish Championships on the blue Kimpinen track in Lappeenranta during the weekend.

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As has become custom, the women’s throwing disciplines were the key events in the Chinese National Championships in Shijiazhuang from 2-5 August.

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London, UK - A scintillating return to one lap racing by Jeremy Wariner was the highlight of the Norwich Union London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace this evening, a meeting that featured the first 22m shot put in the world this year by Reese Hoffa and some superb jumping competitions on a warm, breezy evening in south London.

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Minsk, Belarus – The meeting Memorial Mechislav Ovsjanik, which remembers the name of the trainer who coached many international champions and medallists including Natalia Shikolenko, Elina Zvereva, Vladimir Dubrovshchik and Yanina Provalinskaja-Korolchik, was held on Saturday (28) in the “Staiki” Sports Centre.

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The 2005 Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year Virgilijus Alekna extended his discus winning streak to 37 competitions with a victory at the European Area Permit Meeting in the Spanish city of Zaragoza on Saturday.

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European, World and Olympic Champion Virgilijus Alekna (LIT) was the star of the Kaunas European Athletics Permit Meeting yesterday in a night that saw 23 Seasons Bests, Six Personal Bests, two National Records and three Lithuanian All Comers records, in front of a capacity crowd of 6,000 spectators.

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European, World and Olympic Discus champion Virgilijus Alekna will be the star attraction at this evening's European Athletics Permit Meeting in his home town of Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Tallinn, Estonia - Olympic Javelin Throw silver medallist Vadim Vasilevskis of Latvia achieved the best result at the 15th international meet in Tallinn, Estonia, which attracted a 3000 plus crowd in nice summer weather (around 22 degrees) yesterday.

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Lapinlahti, Finland - Tero Pitkämäki returned to action in Lapinlahti today for the first time since the unfortunate incident at last weekend’s Golden Gala in Rome where long jumper Salim Sdiri of France was injured when hit by Pitkämäki’s javelin. Pitkämäki unleashed a massive 91.23m throw in the third round of the Lapinlahti Elite Games competition and proved that he had been able to focus on his event after the accident.

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Erfurt, Germany - Christina Obergföll produced one of the few standout performances at the first day of the German National Championships in Erfurt (21).

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Russia's world record hammer thrower Tatiana Lysenko has failed a drugs test, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported, quoting a letter from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

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A Shot Put showdown between World champion Adam Nelson and World indoor champion Christian Cantwell will be one of several key attractions at Sunday’s European Athletics premium meeting in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Ostrava, Czech Republic - He is perhaps one of the most precociously talented youngsters in the world at the moment, but Mykyta Nesterenko – despite being just 16 years old – is looking beyond age group success and already has one eye on establishing himself as a star senior performer.

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Six throws into the competition of the Boys’ Hammer Throw final and it had already been won. Ukraine’s Andriy Martynyuk unleashed a monster 76.09m throw on his first attempt, which remained the winning effort for the duration of the competition.

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The winner of the Girls’ discus World Youth title came as a surprise to everyone – not least Julia Fischer herself, who entered the championships hoping to win a medal of any colour.

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With the 5th IAAF World Youth Championships currently being worked out in Ostrava this week, what could be more appropriate timing than for one of the inaugural champions from 1999, Finland’s Robert Häggblom, to now mature into world class shape in the men’s Shot Put.

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Rome, Italy - World season leader in the men’s Javelin Throw Breaux Greer of the USA, who rocketed out a 91.29m Area record at the US champs last month is determined to bounce back from a heavy defeat in Paris (6 July), when he sets foot on the runway at tomorrow night’s Golden Gala Kinder+Sport meeting (13 July) in Rome, Italy, the third stage of the IAAF Golden League 2007.

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Grodno, Belarus - The open championships of Belarus were held 5 - 7 July) in the new arena in Grodno, in three days of appalling weather set with torrential rain and a squally wind.

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In the absence of Finland’s best thrower Tero Pitkämäki, the European silver medallist, the 37th edition of the world famous Javelin Carnival meet in Pihtipudas, Finland, was won yesterday by 23-year-old Teemu Wirkkala.

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Zagreb, Croatia – Despite the endless rains that drenched the Croatian capital throughout the day, Tatyana Lysenko and Irving Saladino keenly illustrated why they are their respective events biggest stars at the 57th edition of the Hanzekovic Memorial on Wednesday (04) evening, a Grand Prix status event as part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2007.

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Turku, Finland - The 46th edition of the Paavo Nurmi Games at the Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku attracted just over 5000 spectators yesterday (1).

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USA’s World Indoor champion Reese Hoffa produced his twelfth consecutive 21m competition of the year thanks to another massive effort to win the Area Permit meeting in Cork, Ireland, yesterday (Sat 30).

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Turkish hammer thrower Esref Apak was the star performer at the 62nd European Athletics Permit Meeting, the Cezmi Or Memorial in Istanbul last night.

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World leader Christian Cantwell topped local favourite Joachim Olsen and Dan Taylor in the men's Shot Put, the feature event at the Aarhus Games on Friday (29).

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Osaka, Japan – With their victories and ‘A’ standards, five athletes qualified for the World Championships to highlight the second day of the Japanese National Championships in Osaka. International stars Koji Murofushi, Dai Tamesue, Shingo Suetsugu, Masato Naito and Daichi Sawano will all return to Nagai Stadium in August.

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Germany's Peter Esenwein produced the European performance of the meeting at the European Athletics Premium Meeting the Spitzenleichtathletik in Luzern last night.

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INDIANAPOLIS - Clearing hurdles are not usually associated with shot putting, but for Tiger post-collegian Christian Cantwell, three major speed bumps may have contributed to him not qualifying for the IAAF World Championships in Japan. Cantwell had to overcome recent health problems, the weather, and a questionable call in placing fifth in the VISA men's shot put Saturday at the USA Track & Field Championships in Indianapolis.

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Last weekends SPAR European Cup champion Tatyana Lysenko, gave further indication of her ability and talent when she emerged the clear victor at lasts nights hammer competition at the Golden Spike Grand Prix in Ostrava.

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My training this month has seen a really “full on” schedule with a lot going on. I have been spending a lot of time in the weights room and out throwing.

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Munich, Germany – While the German men’s squad and powerful Russian women pieced together first day leads, the performance of the afternoon was produced by German Christina Obergföll who improved her own European record in the Javelin Throw to highlight the first day of the SPAR European Cup at Munich’s Olympic Stadium.

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Indianapolis, USA - Breaux Greer unleashed the longest throw ever seen in the United States with the new javelin to become the first member of the U.S. team for the IAAF World Championships in Osaka on Thursday (21).

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INDIANAPOLIS - Breaux Greer broke his own American record in the javelin and won his record eighth straight national title in the event as competition opened Thursday at the AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Carroll Stadium at IUPUI.

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Tampere, Finland – Junior athlete Minna Nikkanen’s new national senior record in the women’s Pole Vault was one of the most promising highlights at the opening of the annual Finnish Elite Games series, which took place in Tampere on Wednesday 20 June.

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Zagreb, Croatia – Tatyana Lysenko, the World record holder in Hammer Throw, and Croatia’s biggest star, high jumper Blanka Vlasic, are just a few of the stars to be confirmed for the Hanzekovic Memorial, a Grand Prix status meeting as part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2007, which takes place on 4 July in the Croatian capital.

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Warsaw, Poland - The 53rd edition of the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, which took place in the Warsaw Academy of Physical Education stadium on Sunday (17) was a high-quality meet. Helped by favourable weather conditions, it was the throwers and jumpers who provided most of the highlights.

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The season is hotting up in perfect time for next weekends European Cups as a number of European athletes were on form in competitions around the continent last night.

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Slovenian Record Holder and current World number one Primos Kozmus confirmed his recent top class form at the 14th European Athletics Premium Meeting, the Josef Odlozil Memorial in Prague yesterday.

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Prague, Czech Republic – The 14th Josef Odlozil Memorial meeting today at Prague´s Juliska Stadium should see a great hammer throwing battle.

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Newly crowned NCAA discus champion Nik Arrhenius is headed back to the land of his heritage today. He's jetting to Stockholm, Sweden, where his father Anders Arrhenius left 35 years ago to earn All-America honors in the shot put at BYU.

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Zhukovskiy, Russia - The Znamenskiy Memorial in this Moscow suburb turned out to be a two act show, with both sessions producing several stellar performances including a pair of 2007 world leaders.

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Bydgoszcz, Poland - The 7th European Athletics Festival held in Bydgoszcz took place under the title of the Dolcan Cup 2007 yesterday (10). Its two main stars were Lithuanian Virgilijus Alekna and Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic and neither disappointed, winning their events. Yet despite their presence the best results of the day came in the men’s Hammer Throw.

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The International tournament ‘Romuald Klim Prizes’ on Saturday 9 June was marked by high level results which included another Asian Discus Throw record by Ehsan Hadadi. The Competitions were held at the sport centre “Stajki” which is near Minsk.

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Chinese athletes lined-up for the first of the three days World Championships Trials in city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province in China. Warm weather with temperatures at around 30 degrees Celsius welcomed the athletes to try to gain a place on the Osaka team.

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When the IAAF Golden League 2007 kicks off at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in one week's time at Oslo's Bislett Stadium, there's little doubt as to who will be taking centre stage, certainly as far as the crowd in the Norwegian capital is concerned: reigning Olympic and European Javelin Throw champion Andreas Thorkildsen.

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Kassel, Germany - The women’s hurdle races and the two throwing events were the highlights of the 10th Askina Meeting in Kassel on Wednesday evening (6).

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As he prepares for the Osaka World Championships, Olympic champion Koji Murofushi took some time off to take part in the IAAF Kids’ Athletics Programme in order to familiarize young Japanese children with throwing events.

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Winning a regional championship in Reichenbach (Saxony/Germany) on Sunday (3) Peter Sack produced a lifetime best in the Shot Put of 20.92 metres. The 27-year-old had a fine series of 19.52 – 20.71 – 19.82 – 20.52 – 20.92 – x, beating the German qualifying standard for the World Championships in Osaka, Japan, (20.30m) three times.

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The Cup of Belarus meeting which was held (1 June - Throws) at the Stajki Sports Centre in the suburb of Minsk was marked by high class results as usual.

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A total of 76 athletes per team took part in the traditional competition between youth teams from Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Latvia thanks to a generous grant from European Athletics' Support Programme. This year the meeting was moved from Kiev to Yalta the same location the 7th European Athletics Cup Winter Throwing Competition took place last March.

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Finland’s European Javelin Throw silver medallist Tero Pitkämäki opened his 2007 season this afternoon on a high note with a narrow victory - 87.78 to 87.24m - over his arch rival Norway’s Andreas Thorkildsen, the Olympic and European champion, in Kuortane, Finland.

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Minsk, Belarus – The Cup of Belarus meeting which was held (1 June - Throws) at the Stajki Sports Centre in the suburb of Minsk was marked by high class results as usual.

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A crowd of almost 6,000 spectators were treated to some top class action at the 9th European Athletics Permit Meeting in Dessau, Germany yesterday, where a thrilling men's Javelin stole the headlines.

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With his 72.02 heave in Salinas, California, May 3rd, Estonian Gerd Kanter leapfrogged world record holder, Jürgen Schult, in the all-time 10-best average throws. However, it is not this collector's item that is important to Kanter, but the German's world record of 74.08 which celebrates its 21st birthday this year.

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A 75m effort from Betty Heidler and a 20m put by Petra Lammert, respectively in the women’s Hammer Throw and Shot Put, and some consistent men’s hammer throwing by Markus Esser were the highlights of the Whitsun holiday weekend’s action in Germany (Sat 26 – Mon 28 May).

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On the infield, World and Olympic silver medallist Yipsi Moreno defied a fever caused by tonsillitis and produced a massive 74.90 to break her own meet record of 74.07 from 2003.

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Tatyana Lysenko of Russia extended her own World record in the Hammer, reaching 78.61m at the All-Russian Athletics competition in Sochi today.

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Estonian Gerd Kanter, consolidated his position as IAAF World Discus Leader with another impressive victory in yesterday's 9th Ludvik Danek Memorial in the Czech Republic.

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Goldie Sayers broke the UK javelin record with a fabulous final throw as the sun set on the Loughborough International meeting on Sunday.

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As Valerie Vili, the Shot Put World bronze medallist continues her winning streak with a 19.02m performance in Shizuoka, she shares with the IAAF readers some very sad news…

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Former Ouachita and ULM star Breaux Greer set an American record on Sunday at the Adidas Track Classic in Carson Calif.

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The University Games of Belarus which were held in the Staiki Sport Centre from 17 to 19 May provided a good chance to the nation’s top athletes to compete in the open events. The best results came in the throwing events, the country’s most competitive disciplines.

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The Spanish town of Herrera played host to the first of the 2007 European Athletics Outdoor Premium meetings on Saturday, with Poland's Piotr Malachowski and Malgorzata Trybanska being the star performers.

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Two-time World champion Franka Dietzsch showed she'll be an extremely difficult champion to topple in Osaka later this summer, after her dominating victory in the Discus Throw at the annual throwing meeting in Halle, Germany, on Saturday (19).

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New Delhi, May 18: Vikas Gowda broke his own national discus throw record when he managed a distance of 64.96m at the Gary Shaw Classic Throws meet in the United States.

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Fortaleza, Brazil – USA’s Kim Kreiner, 29, produced the best performance of the 3rd edition of the “Grande Prêmio Sul-Americano Caixa/Unifor de Atletismo”, held this Wednesday 16 May in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, in a warm and humid night.

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Individual wins by Britney Henry and Rachel Yurkovich are evidence of the superb outdoor season each has had

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Minsk, Belarus – Three world class results highlighted the Anatoly Julin Memorial, held on Friday (11) at the Staiki Sport Centre to honour one of the nation’s most eminent hurdlers.

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Stanford, California, USA – Jumpers and throwers dominated the first day of the Pacific-10 Conference Championships on a breezy afternoon at Stanford University’s Cobb Track & Angell Field on Saturday, 12 May.

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World Silver Medallist Rutger Smith (NED) had a convincing start to his season at the track and field meet in Lisse, Netherlands this weekend. He showed impressive form in the Shot Putt where he threw a fine 20.41m but his best was yet to come.

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The very best sportsmen are forced through physical and mental tests that would give us mere mortals nightmares.

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Salinas, California, May 3--Another in a series of USATF Discus Development's platter competitions produced the year's longest heave as Estonian Gerd Kanter reached 236-3 (72.02).

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Twice World Champion Ivan Tikhon, (BLR) started his 2007 outdoor season in style as he claimed Gold in the Hammer at National Track and Field Throwing Championship, which took place in Brest, Belarus, for the 23rd time.

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Suzy Powell is not supposed to be 30. In our idea of a perfect world, she'll always be 19 and the youngest Olympian on her team, or 16 when she was the U.S. junior champion. Wasn't it last week she received her diploma from Downey High?

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Taking a cue from the gone but not forgotten Bruce Jenner Classic at San Jose City College, organizers of the Tom Moore Modesto Relays are highlighting the shot put in Saturday's 66th annual meet.

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As he prepares to take part in a IAAF Kids’ Athletics competition to promote the IAAF World Athletics Day in Osaka, Olympic champion Koji Murofushi reflects on what are the best methods for an productive training.

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The appearance of the former World record holder Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, and two-time World champion Yipsi Moreno has quickly established the women’s Hammer Throw as the main competition of the upcoming “GP Sul-Americano Sesi/Caixa de Atletismo” in Uberlândia, on 6 May.

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High school athletes are bigger and stronger than ever, but that strength and power isn't showing up in the shot put, the track and field event that many equate with big and strong.

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Valerie Vili was out to 19.02m in the shot put for victory at the Japanese international meeting in Shizuoka on Monday.

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American shot putter Christian Cantwell, the 2004 World indoor champion and 2006 world leader, will face off against compatrior Dan Taylor and Danish star Joachim Olsen at the Aarhus Games in Aarhus, Denmark, on 29 June.

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Not Once, Not Twice, But THRICE

San José, Calif., May 1—Love that wind!

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The Commonwealth Games Shot Put champion has returned to Melbourne, Australia - the scene of her 2006 triumph - for a ten-day training camp. “I’ve been here almost a week now.... The training has been really hard work, but I’m loving it! I am feeling great and my strength levels are returning which is exciting....”

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Former Missouri track and field standout Christian Cantwell won his fifth Drake Relays shot put title with a throw of 71 feet, 3¼ inches yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa. Cantwell tied Al Feuerbach for the most all-time Drake shot put titles. Feuerbach won his in the 1970s.

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Dakar, Senegal - With his command performance and dominating victory, World Indoor champion Reese Hoffa (USA) stole the limelight in the Shot Put contest on Gorée Island just off the Dakar coastline in Senegal on Friday.

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Andreas Thorkildsen has decided to leave behind the cold north and will open his season in the warmth of Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday. After a week at home The Olympic and European Athletics champion then goes on to Doha for the second of a 15-competition season with a triple pronged goal of winning Bislett, the IAAF World championships and bettering his personal best of 91.59m.

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Senegal's vibrant athletics culture comes into focus as the second meeting of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Tour is staged at the Leopold Sedar Senghor Stadium in Dakar on Saturday.

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Showing the obvious benefits of a good winters training, Lysenko threw the third best mark ever with an amazing 77.30m.

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USA’s Parry O’Brien, the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Shot Put champion and multiple World record holder for the event died last weekend at the age of 75.

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Parry O'Brien, whose fascination with the shotput and physics fueled a career in which he held the world record from 1953 to 1959 and won two gold medals and a silver medal in four Olympic games, has died. He was 75.

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Monte-Carlo - Olympic and European Javelin Throw champion Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway has confirmed his campaign for the IAAF Golden League 2007.

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Lawrence, Kansas, USA - Christian Cantwell still has a ways to go to get into top shape, but the shot putter didn’t complain about his outdoor season opener at the 80th Kansas Relays on Friday (20).

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Argentinean Jennifer Dahlgren, a student at the University of Georgia, produced the first South American record of 2007, by improving her own mark in the Hammer Throw, with a toss of 72.94m on 13 April 2007, at the Spec Towns Meet in Athens, Georgia. The mark also betters her own NCAA record.

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Look at the pictures and the trees. :P

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Breisch throws big at inaugural Maui "Big Wind" discus challenge presented by Iron Wood Throwers.

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Rome takes over early world lead from training partner Waltz at inaugural Maui "Big Wind" discus challenge presented by Iron Wood Throwers.

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Powell breaks American record at inaugural Maui "Big Wind" discus challenge presented by Iron Wood Throwers.

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Waltz takes early world lead at inaugural Maui "Big-Wind" discus challenge presented by Iron Wood Thrówers.

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Brown-Trafton, Malone, Powell-Roos, Rome, Waltz, and others to compete at inaugural Maui “BIG-WIND” discus challenge presented by Iron Wood Throwers.

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Israel, Kelly Strong each move into top-five of world rankings; Lia makes 2007 1,500-meter debut.

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In Prague this week, Javelin great Jan Zelezny was presented with a Fair Play Trophy for his long standing and successful career.

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Time and self-accountability are certainly two of the most valuable, and constant assets in our ever-changing world. As human beings, we are consistently tried and stretched to our limits; however student-athletes are pushed even further.

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“How is everyone?” opens Koji Murofushi’s second diary installment for the IAAF website. The Olympic Hammer Throw champion on this occasion writes about his latest activities and thoughts, which include a little bit of sword play…well virtually, and some reminisces about his friend the triple jumper Willie Banks.

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The World Championship bronze medallist and World Cup winner Valerie Vili of New Zealand is making a good comeback after recent injury.

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Mombasa, Kenya - The IAAF Council has announced its decision that the host venues for the 2011 and 2013 IAAF World Championships in Athletics will be as follows:

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TEMPE, Ariz. – The University of Oregon’s throws unit logged several of its top all-time javelin performances Saturday night in second and final day track and field action in the Arizona State Invitational, held at Joe Selleh Track at Sun Angel Stadium.

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Valerie Vili was out to her best performance this season in the shot put, in Auckland on Saturday evening, with her first shot over 19m since her minor surgery on her shoulder in December.
Vili had four attempts over 19 meters with her best of 19.47m coming in round one.

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Reigning World champion Franka Dietzsch set the early season tone in the Discus Throw to highlight the two day European Cup Winter Throwing competition which concluded today in Yalta, Ukraine.

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Gerd Kanter, the World and European silver medallist, won a heated duel with Poland's Piotr Malachowski, 65.54 to 65.06.

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Santiago, Cuba - Olympic and World Championships Hammer Throw silver medallist Yipsi Moreno and World Championships Javelin Throw finalist Guillermo Martinez produced the highest notes at the Cuban Throwing Champs Aurelio Janet Memorial, held last weekend (10-11March) in the eastern city of Santiago.

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The New Zealand born Samoan athlete Beatrice Faumuina wants Athletics New Zealand to investigate last weekend’s Australian champs in Brisbane.

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Inglewood, New Zealand - At the national track and field championships held in Jubilee Park, Inglewood (2 – 4 March), World Cup winner Valerie Vili improved on her 18.32 season opener with a solid series of efforts (all over 18m) resulting in a best of 18.84m to win the Women’s Shot Put competition.

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Kingston, Jamaica - Reigning Olympic and World Championships silver medallist Yipsi Moreno broke her NACAC Hammer Throw record with 75.64m

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Beatrice Faumuina capped a successful New Zealand track and field championships in Inglewood, winning the final event on the programme on Sunday in convincing fashion with a throw of 60.71m in the discus.

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The prevailing philosophy for throwerss is “get a long one out first” – it’s a theory that worked very well for Slovakia's Mikulas Konopka, who became not only the first gold medallist of the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships but also the first athlete from his country ever to win a title at this event.

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Stellenbosch, South Africa - Elizna Naude’s Africa Discus Throw record and Tebogo Mashela’s national women's 3000m Steeplechase record were highlights of the Yellow Pages Track and Field meet in Coetzenburg Stadium (2 March).

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Beatrice Faumuina has set herself a tough schedule over the next four days, competing in Melbourne on Friday evening and then returning across the Tasman to compete in the New Zealand track and field championships in Inglewood on Sunday.

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Japan’s Olympic Hammer Throw champion Koji Murofushi, who will be the undisputed home crowd favourite when the IAAF World Championships in Athletics take place in Osaka, Japan from 25 August to 2 September is the latest addition to the 2007 IAAF Online diaries.

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Boston, USA - Christian Cantwell won the Shot Put at the AT&T USA Track & Field Indoor Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center on 25 February in a competition pitting together the top three throwers in the world.

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In what could be the most closely contested event of the meet, the top three shot putters of 2007 - Christian Cantwell, Reese Hoffa and Dan Taylor - will battle it out at the 2007 AT&T USA Indoor Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Boston.

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The men’s Shot Put was, just as expected, the best event at the Finnish Indoor Championships on 17 / 18 February in Rovaniemi, the capital of the Lapland province.

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Valerie Vili opened her season in New Zealand with a 18.32m shot put at the IAAF Permit meeting at QEII Stadium in Christchurch, this evening.

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For the first time in his athletic life, American shot putter Christian Cantwell faced a dilemma that had the potential to affect his competitive comforts.

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New Zealand’s Valerie Vili, who represent her country’s best chance for winning a medal at the World Championships in Osaka underwent surgery in December 2006 but as she reveals, her shoulder is already on the mend…

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Potchefstroom, South Africa - South Africans Justine Robbeson (Javelin Throw) and Alwyn Myburgh (400m Hurdles) qualified for the World Championships at the Yellow Pages Track and Field meet in PUK/McArthur Stadium, in Potchefstroom, South Africa.

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Second on the 2006 World lists, New Zealand’s Valerie Vili is likely to be one of the main contenders for the women’s Shot Put podium at the World Championships in Athletics, Osaka, Japan.

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A national Shot Put record, a quickening Hurtis, and a surprise defeat for Tim Lobinger in the Pole Vault were the headlines from the meeting in Mondeville on Saturday.

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First words of Manuel Martínez after his change to rotational technique: We were thinking about it for several years and we didn´t take the risk. Me and my coach were sure that the rotational technique was better for my psychological and anthropometry caracteristics than guide technique.

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Beatrice Faumuina had one of her best series of throws for sometime in winning the discus event at Canberra on Saturday evening.

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As is traditional at this time of the year, the Belarusian Athletics Federation has named the best athletes and coaches of the past season.

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Reese Hoffa, the reigning World indoor shot put champion, began his 2007 campaign on a high note with a solid victory at the Energie-Kugelstoß-Indoor shot put meeting in Nordhausen, Germany on Friday (19).

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Beatrice Faumuina will, for the first time since her Commonwealth Games disappointment, swap a sequined ball dress for the more familiar surrounds of the discus arena and black singlet when she competes at the Waikato-Bay of Plenty open track and field meet at Porritt Stadium tonight.

Gifford Lee - Waikato Times

After his stellar 2006 campaign, USA’s World Indoor Shot Put champion Reese Hoffa, can’t wait to get going again in 2007.

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Texas A&M Foundation Senior Philanthropic Officer Randy Matson - a famed Aggie Olympian and longtime fund-raiser for his alma matter - retired Friday, closing the book on a storied career in Aggieland that spanned five decades.

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The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport announced a pair of suspensions due to doping violations on Thursday.

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The IAAF has received a letter from the Swedish Athletics Association confirming that Gothenburg is pulling out of the race to host the 2011 or 2013 World Championships in Athletics.

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Havana, Cuba - Cuba’s two reigning World champions, Zulia Calatayud, 800m, and Osleidys Menéndez, Javelin Throw, ended their 2006 season's differently, but both are back training with high goals for the next year, including the defence of their titles in Osaka.

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Doha, Qatar - Zhang Wenxiu’s spectacular Asian women's Hammer Throw victory was the highlight of the second day’s action of Athletics at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, on Friday (8), during which four gold medals were decided – men’s & women’s Hammer Throws, men’s 3000m Steeplechase, and women’s 10,000m.

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Estonia won four gold medals at the IAAF World Junior Championships but there was no doubt that Margus Hunt was the biggest, in every sense, contributor to that tally.

Newsletter of the EAA 4|06 UPDATE

Jan Zelezny wants to coach a new generation in the future.

Newsletter of the EAA 4|06 UPDATE

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New York, USA - In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his victory in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, discus throwing legend, Al Oerter, was honoured last night (11) at the New York Athletic Club (NYAC), the club for which he competed for his entire career.

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German discus legend Lars Riedel has put back all thoughts of retirement and the five-time world champion, as well as the 1998 European champion, has set his sights on getting a medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan.

Phil Minshull

Vikas Gowda hopes to leave last year's letdown in the dust -- gold dust, that is.

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He’s not worried about the $100,000 cash prize. He’s not worried about driving alone to Indianapolis. He’s not even worried about facing the fastest man on earth. Columbia’s Christian Cantwell’s only concern is performing in the shot put as well as he can.

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A meeting in Schönebeck (Germany) produced some great throwing results on Saturday (17), topped with World champion Franka Dietzsch's world-leading last attempt 68.51 in the Discus Throw.

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Warsaw, Poland - The fifty-second edition of the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, which took place in the Warsaw Academy of Physical Education stadium today (18), was a high quality meet with world leading performances in two events, a number of world-class marks and several breakthrough performances by Polish athletes.

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