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News30 May 2006


Kreiner throws USA Javelin record

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Kim Kreiner produced the longest ever women’s javelin throw in the United States on Sunday (28 May) at College of San Mateo, wiping out the American and the American all-comers records.

Kreiner’s throw of 62.12m on her first attempt converts to 203 feet, 10 inches, and breaks her 11-day-old record of 61.79m (202-8) set in Fortaleza, Brazil (May 17). Before that, no American woman had throw over 200 feet with the new javelin implement, which has been in use since 1999

The previous longest throw by anyone in the USA was 61.82m (202-10) by Irina Kharun of the Ukraine, competing for Indiana University in 2003.  

An interesting witness to the record was CSM’s own Olympic javelin thrower Nicole Carroll, one of the last Americans to throw over 200 feet with the old javelin. Carroll threw 62.74m with the former implement, in 1995, before representing the USA in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.  The IAAF changed implements on 1 January 1999.

“It helped that I only threw the old javelin for three years,” the now 28-year-old Kreiner said.  “The older throwers had trouble adjusting.”

Fred Baer for the IAAF

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