Athletes Incident

The incident occurred midway through the evening when Finnish thrower Tero Pitkamaki slipped at the end of his run-up, hurling the javelin out to the left of the landing area and spearing Sdiri in his right side as he crouched in the
long jump warm-up section The world record for men, at 98.48 meters, is held by Jan Železný from the Czech Republic, set at Jena, Germany, on May 25, 1996. The world record for women, at 71.70 meters, is held by Osleidys Menéndez from Cuba, set at Helsinki, Finland on August 14, 2005. * Steve Backley, Great Britain * Patrik Bodén, Sweden * Egil Danielsen, Norway * Breaux Greer, USA * Uwe Hohn, GDR * Arto Härkönen, Finland * Matti Järvinen, Finland * Tapio Korjus, Finland * Dainis Kūla, Soviet Union (Latvia) * Gergely Kulcsár, Hungary * Eric Lemming, Sweden * Jānis Lūsis, Soviet Union (Latvia) * Sergey Makarov, Russia * Jonni Myyrä, Finland * Miklós Németh, Hungary * Aki Parviainen, Finland * Tom Petranoff, USA * Tero Pitkämäki, Finland * Tapio Rautavaara, Finland * Seppo Räty, Finland * Janusz Sidło, Poland * Andreas Thorkildsen, Norway * Andrus Värnik, Estonia * Jan Železný, Czech Republic * Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvia * Petra Felke, East Germany * Ruth Fuchs, East Germany * Trine Hattestad, Norway * Tiina Lillak, Finland * Osleidys Menéndez, Cuba * Tessa Sanderson, Great Britain * Kate Schmidt, United States * Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain * Dana Zátopková, Czechoslovakia

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[DivaCandyrock]

Ouch! And we have an automatic win!

[Rio17k]

woooow

[barnetthejosh]

someone got shanked by the javelin

[santeenl]

bs.

[lvhjk]

What are we watching here?

[backis62]

What is the point of you watching it?

[Ken2234]

extra points???

[labdarugo]

I used to throw javelin. You never ever ever turn your back when this event is going on. Otherwise this happens.

[Mark5058]

jmm121884, you've missed the point (so to speak). If you watch more carefully you'll see that the significance of his film is that some poor sod actually gets hit by the javelin.

[jmm121884]

What is the point of you listing every world class Javelin Thrower?? waste of time