The Diamond League meeting in Liu Xiang’s hometown of Shanghai began on Saturday with a bang: European Indoor champion Christina Schwanitz won the shot put competition with a personal best of 20.20m (66′ 3″). Malachowski won the discus competition with a massive 67.34m (220′ 11″). Currently he is ranked 2nd in the 2013 world list. Gerd Kanter [...]
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 [...]
Another meeting was held today in Warsaw, Poland. The conditions were tough for all of them and only the lithuanian Virgilijus Alekna could really cope with those. He launched 68.50m and won the competition! The Australian Benn Harradine, who recently brought a lot of fun to the competitions with his nice suits, became second with [...]
ERGO World Games 2011 will be held tomorrow in Tallinn a capital city of Estonia. The idea of the ERGO World Games is to find out the best discus country of the World. The idea comes from a legendary Estonian throwing coach, Aleksander Tammert Sernior, a former European Junior Champion in shot put. The first [...]
Men´s Discus Qualification is over and although nobody reached the automatic qualification mark 65.50, the Final promises to be a class act. True, Gerd Kanter, of Estonia, threw over the automatic qualifying line in his warm-up. Finally he wasted all his attempts trying to hit a desirable line but still ended up with just 63.50m. [...]
The biggest surprise of this week came from Poland. The reigning European Champion Piotr Malachowski lost the Polish Championships title to 22 year old Przemyslaw Czajkowski. And he lost it with just 60cm although the results did not reach 64m which should be a daily throw for Malachowski. Is this the sign of an injury or he [...]
Samsung Diamond League, Paris. 8 July 2011. We are going to have a live coverage from the Men´s Discus competition which promises to bring a high level results as the startlist includes almost all throwers that will fight for the highest rank at the World Championships held later this summer in Daegu. Startlist includes the [...]
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Sarah Mayer and Bernhard Seifert with U23 qualification standards
May 19, 2013
Malachowski, Pitkämäki and Schwanitz Awaken the Giants in 上海’
May 18, 2013
Kathrin Klaas: “WM qualification standard and then…”
May 18, 2013
Emotional Adversity
May 18, 2013
Javelin Throw Debate
May 16, 2013
World lead for Julian Wruck with impressive 66.32m!
April 16, 2013
Waltzing To Victory: An Interview With Luke Bryant
April 16, 2013
Shot Put talents from Germany following David Storl’s footsteps
April 27, 2013
Germán Lauro improves the national record to 20,98m
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