Think you're too small to throw?

[james]

I just looked at some of the results for the qualifying in the World Juniors and the Brazilian guy Julio Cesar de Oliveira weighs 55kg and is 1.63m tall which comes out to 5 foot 3!!! He won the World Youth Games last year with the 700g jav throwing 81m and threw 70.36m to qualify for the final of the World Juniors yesterday. No more excuses about height then unfortunately!

[Lovett]

World Junior Championships 2004

Official Results - Javelin - Men - Qualification
Qual. rule: qualification standard 69.60m or at least best 12 qualified


Group A - Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 9:50

Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark
1 694 Rautenbach Lohan RSA 73.59 Q (PB)
2 40 Robinson Joshua AUS 71.92 Q
3 99 de Oliveira Júlio César BRA 70.36 Q
4 181 Syrovátko Jan CZE 67.21 q
5 460 Onitsuka Kazunori JPN 67.06 q
6 373 Papp Bence HUN 66.76
7 319 Heinemann Fabian GER 65.79
8 145 Ma Yuxing CHN 64.97
9 240 Pääkkönen Juha FIN 64.79
10 209 Moreno Noel ESP 62.51
11 876 Harris Brian USA 61.21
12 812 Lin Heng-Chi TPE 59.83



Group B - Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 11:20

Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark
1 727 Tovarnov Aleksey RUS 73.74 Q (PB)
2 346 Filippídis Yervásios GRE 70.58 Q
3 237 Mannio Ari FIN 69.25 q (PB)
4 367 Magyari Zoltán HUN 68.59 q
5 404 Baiocchi Daniele ITA 68.12 q
6 630 Jachimowicz Sebastian POL 67.96 q
7 386 Singh Gurkirat IND 66.84 q
8 693 Potgieter Raldu RSA 66.70
9 843 Avramenko Roman UKR 66.34
10 480 Kang Hyo-Sung KOR 65.07
11 613 Fatecha Victor PAR 64.45
12 909 Vogelsberg Andrew USA 60.60
13 570 Olivas Kenley NCA 52.85


www.iaaf.org/WJC04/results/gender=M/discipline=JT/combCode=hash/roundCode=q/index.html

The final will be good!

[james]

Some of the PBs of these kids are ridiculous, Ari Mannio is still an under 17 and his PB with the 700g jav is 78.40m! Kind of depressing.

[SCater]

depressing yet impressing at the same time .....

[james]

I was wrong actually his bday is July so he'd be too old to throw in the U17 age group. Still not a bad effort tho!