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Fatima Whitbread, MBE (née Vedad; born 3 March 1961) is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of 77.44 m (254 ft 3⁄4 in) in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became the first British athlete to set a world record in a throwing event.
Dec 19, 2023 · Whitbread's aim was to get the job done on her first throw and save energy for those that mattered. Grainy footage shows her holding the javelin aloft with her right hand.
Sharp throw from Fatima Whitbread as she sets a new World Record in the Women's Javelin qualifiers at the 1986 European Championships.
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Whitbread broke the javelin world record with a throw of 77.44m in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Championships in Athletics (where she also won the final) and became World...
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Dec 19, 2023 · Throwing 77.44m - more than two metres further than the previous record - Whitbread became the first British athlete to set a world record in a throwing event and went on to win the gold...
She took up the javelin at the age of 11 and was eventually adopted by Margaret Whitbread, a former javelin thrower turned national javelin coach, and her husband. Whitbread became European Junior Champion in 1979 and was chosen for the Moscow Olympics whilst still a teenager.
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Born in London to Cypriot parents, Fatima Whitbread endured a disturbed childhood after being abandoned by her mother as a baby and spent her first 14 years in a variety of care homes. She took up the javelin at the age of 11 and was eventually adopted by Margaret Whitbread, a former javelin thrower turned national javelin coach, and her husband.
