That was an amazing discus battle what we have seen tonight. World champion, European champion, Olympic champion, and all within 365 days: Robert Harting takes gold with 68,27m, Ehsan Hadadi silver 68,18m and Gerd Kanter 68,03 SB wins bronze! The 2012 Olympic Discus Final was one of the best ones in Olympic History! All medalists [...]
Robert Harting won again a big meeting at the famous FBK Games in Hengelo. He opened with 65,94m which also would have been enough to win this competition. He improved during his second throw to 67,34m. The best throw was the third one which touched the 70m line but unfortunately he also touched the ring [...]
Erik Cadée and Rutger Smith have their Olympic nomination already and therefore they can focus on preparing for the Olympics only instead of trying to chase for a qaulifcation. Currently they train hard at Papendal. Last Monday they were visited and a video of their weightlifting session was recorded.
For the first time Throwholics arranged a challenge between two throwing athletes. For the first challenge we picked Egyptian record holder, the African champion Omar El-Ghazaly (PB 66.56m) and Erik Cadee (NED) who has a lifetime best of 66.95m. The challenge was about hitting the target with blinded eyes. The target was set to 50 [...]
Erik Cadée (NED ) who owns a lifetime best of 66.95m threw another great effort at the meet “Mondo Keien” held on Saturday, 2 July. His best throw landed on 65.21m giving him a superior victory over Stephan Dekker (50.87m PB). It was Cadée´s 14th competition this year and a 5th over 65m. His main [...]
Erik, this year you are really on fire … first in USA then at the FBK Games which proved you can throw far without a wind support. What´s the main reason for your long throws this year? First of all everything went according to our schedule as I could train whole winter without any physical [...]
Despite of a bad weather, Erik Cadée (NED) won at the IAAF World Challenge meet held in Rabat. He threw his best throw 64.06m in his second attempt. He was followed by Frank Casañas (ESP) who threw 63.53m and Jorge Fernández (CUB) who ended up with 62.88m. Welsh record holder Brett Morse (GBR) was fourth [...]
Erik Cadée (NED) competed in Hoorn (May 21) and ended up with one of his best throwing series ever. His all six throws landed behind the 62 meter line – 62.35-62.79-63.77-63.15-62.79-64.14. Cadée who had a technique change this winter proves that it was a good decision. His seasons best is 66.95 m which is also [...]
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