Vetter came in the seventh position at the 2015 IAAF World Championships and fourth place at the 2016 Summer Olympics, only missing the podium. This German javelin thrower owns two world records: 97.76 meters on September 6, 2020, and 94.44 meters on July 11, 2017. Johannes Vetter is the next name after Jan Zelezny. His crowning achievement came at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, where he won gold with a throw of 90.30 meters. At the European Cup Winter Throwing and the European Team Championships, he has earned several awards. He competed for Germany in the European Athletics Championships in 2012 and the World Athletics Championships in 2013. In 2012, 2013, and 2015, he was the German national champion. Thomas Rohler has a personal best of 93.90m in this case, which ranks him third all-time in the world among the best javelin throw. Thomas Rohler – GermanyĪnother man from Germany is listed third on the list. Due to injury, Parviainen declared his retirement in the spring of 2006. His highest Olympic achievement was a fifth-place finish in 2000. He earned a gold medal in the 1999 World Athletics Championships and a silver medal in the 2001 World Championships. On June 26, 1999, he gave his best score of 93.09m, putting him in fourth place on the ranking. Aki Parviainen – FinlandĪki Parviainen, a man from Finland, enters.

In 2014, he became the first Kenyan to earn a gold medal in a field event at the Commonwealth Games. He earned the javelin at the 2011 All-Africa Games and the African Athletics Championships in 20 he ended fourth at the 2013 World Championships, missing a bronze in the final round. With a world record of 92.72 meters, he holds the African and Commonwealth records for the sport. YouTube” because he learned to throw after viewing YouTube videos of javelin competitors. Julius Yego competes in the javelin throw as a Kenyan track and field competitor. He is married to Oksana Ovchinnikova, the ex-Russian women’s javelin record holder. Makarov was born into a sports family his father, Aleksandr, earned a silver medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics in the javelin throw. Having endured a stiff competition from Jan Elezn, Steve Backley, and others during his career, Makarov did not win a significant competition until 2003, when he became World Champion at the age of 30. In 2002, he set the Russian record with a throw of 92.61 meters. Sergey Makarov is a former Russian javelin thrower. He represented France in the M45 category of the World Masters Championships in 2015. In international play, his highest finish was a bronze medal at the 1998 European Championships. Hecht set five German records throughout his career. On the all-time list, he is ranked seventh. In 1995, he recorded a personal best throw of 92.60 meters. Raymond Hecht competed in the javelin throw as a German track and field competitor. With a throw of 87.60 meters, he captured silver at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in August. He captured gold at the 2018 German Athletics Championships in July 2018, establishing a new championship mark of 89.55 meters. As of 2017, his highest finish was the second position at the 2017 Summer Universiade, where he achieved a personal best of 91.07 meters. At the 2015 World Championships, he placed sixth, and at the 2017 World Championships, he placed eighth. His personal best of 92.06 meters places him eighth overall. Andreas Hofmann – GermanyĪndreas Hofmann competes in the javelin throw and is a German track and field competitor. The Greek star holds the record of one of the top javelin throws of all time. Gatsioudis, who was born in Didymoteicho, set a world junior record in 1990 and eight national records during his career.

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