2009 Paris Golden League: mJav (Andreas Thorkildsen 88.03)

[LopenUupunut]

PYATNYTSYA Oleksandr UKR 81.26 81.26
RAGS Eriks LAT 86.47 82.23
FRANK Mark GER 84.88 83.86
HILL Chris USA 83.87 83.87
WIRKKALA Teemu FIN 84.68 84.68
VASILEVSKIS Vadims LAT 90.73 90.71
PITKÄMÄKI Tero FIN 91.53 86.78
THORKILDSEN Andreas NOR 91.59 88.97

Pity about the small field. Luckily its strength is much harder to criticize. Wild prediction: Thorkildsen wins, Hill places last.

[LopenUupunut]

Pitkämäki 86.68... I won't object if he spoils my prediction :wink:

And 81.96 NR for Pyatnytsya Happy because it's been all too long since I last spotted a non-obvious and underestimated on-the-rise athlete.

[Jnathletics]

Current standings (No round info)

1 PITKÄMÄKI Tero 86.68
2 THORKILDSEN Andreas 83.14
3 VASILEVSKIS Vadims 82.82
4 PYATNYTSYA Oleksandr 81.96 NR
5 WIRKKALA Teemu 80.95
6 FRANK Mark 79.80
7 RAGS Eriks 79.58
8 HILL Chris 77.01

[gruber]

xxx

[Jnathletics]

Thorki 88.03

Yes!!!!!

[26mi235]

Pitimaki (sp) 88+ back to 1st, I think.

Sorry, the video is so broken that they went from 88m to a picture of TP having thrown and I assumed it was he that threw 88.

[LopenUupunut]

Rank Last Name First name Nation Result
1 THORKILDSEN Andreas NOR 88.03
2 PITKÄMÄKI Tero FIN 86.68
3 VASILEVSKIS Vadims LAT 82.82
4 WIRKKALA Teemu FIN 82.49
5 PYATNYTSYA Oleksandr UKR 81.96 NR
6 FRANK Mark GER 81.73
7 RAGS Eriks LAT 80.48
8 HILL Chris USA 77.01

Wild prediction: Thorkildsen wins, Hill places last.

2 out of 2 right there

Unsurprisingly (it of course being a major basis for my predictions) this was a howling success for the Very Nearly Live Formchart in general, the only deviation being Pyatnytsya's beating Frank.

Updated VNLF:

1. Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway) =
2. Tero Pitkämäki (Finland) =
3. Vadims Vasilevskis (Latvia) =
4. Teemu Wirkkala (Finland) =
5. Ainars Kovals (Latvia) =
6. Mark Frank (Germany) =
7. Ari Mannio (Finland) +1
8. Igor Janik (Poland) -1
9. Oleksandr Pyatnytsya (Ukraine) +1
10. Guillermo Martínez (Cuba) -1
11. Tero Järvenpää (Finland) =
12. Eriks Rags (Latvia) N

[Jnathletics]

Pitimaki (sp) 88+ back to 1st, I think.

Sorry, the video is so broken that they went from 88m to a picture of TP having thrown and I assumed it was he that threw 88.

You know for minute there, you really ruined my day. Thanks alot. :wink:

[gruber]

xxx

[LopenUupunut]

5 PYATNYTSYA Oleksandr UKR 81.96 NR

why this is a NR?

what's wrong with
82.78 Andrey Maznichenko Adler 25 February 1990
or 83.92 Andrey Maznichenko Adler 26 Feb 1991

Ukraine wasn't independent then. A more probable reason, though, is that the meeting guys simply got that wrong But if Pyatnytsya stays healthy I predict he'll break the real NR soon enough.

Pitkämäki was quite satisfied with his first throw. That's surely not a good sign...

[andyjgt]

The actual truth is that Maznichenko's 1991 mark was set with the Nemeth javelin, when Raty's WR of 96.96 with it was disallowed so were all marks set with it.

Will need to check the 1990 mark, but I'm sure the reason is the same, however when I've received or downloaded national year lists containing lists of NRs the NR shown is Havras' 81.74 from 1987.

[mikli]

83.92 was certainly with rough surface javelin, but it seems to me that the 82.78 throw was not.