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- It was set on 25 May 1996 at an athletics meet in Jena, Germany, by Jan Železný (Czech Republic). Železný is widely considered the greatest javelin thrower ever; he broke the world record four times and won three Olympic gold medals during his career.
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May 25, 2021 · A turbulent decade followed which saw more rule modifications and no less than 13 world records ratified. However, the upheavals to the record books came abruptly to an end when Czech javelin legend Jan Zelezny launched his implement out to 98.48m in the German city of Jena on 25 May 1996.
Aug 6, 2024 · Jan Železný. But most athletics world records – barring outliers like the women’s 100 m – are regularly broken every few years, so why hasn’t Železný’s been beaten yet? The closest anyone has come was a 97.76-m throw by Germany’s Johannes Vetter in 2020.
Apr 7, 2020 · The turmoil in the discipline had started in April 1986 when new regulations – in the wake of East Germany’s Uwe Hohn setting a massive world record of 104.80m in July 1984, which clearly presented public safety issues – required that the centre of gravity was moved forward in the men’s javelin.
May 24, 2021 · On Tuesday May 25, Jan Železný’s javelin world record will be 25 years old. However, for the Czech star synonymous with gold, the silver anniversary of his 98.48m throw may be his last time...
Nov 26, 2023 · Jan Zelezny not only excelled in Olympic competitions but was equally prolific on the world scene with world records that cemented their legendary status. On April 30, 1993, in Jena, Germany, Zelezny’s javelin pierced the sky, landing at an astonishing distance of 95.66 meters .
The King Of The World Rankings In the almost-60-year history of T&FN’s World Rank-ings, no other man has ever scored as well in a single event as has Jan Zelezny in the javelin. He’ll rate somewhere around No. 5 in this, his last season, but even without the 6 points that would add to his total,
The Czech thrower had admittedly topped the annual rankings by the prestigious US magazine Track and Field News for the previous four years, was the reigning Olympic and world champion as well as having thrown over 90 metres every year since 1991 but adding almost three metres to his three-year-old world record of 95.66m seemed fantastic.
