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[El Toro]

Competitions with multiple throwers/throws at 90m or better are very rare beasts. Here are some related facts:

1) There is only one competition...

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Feuerbach has the single meet record record but Hank Kraychir has the best lifetime ambidextrous, according to Tony Dziepak's thrower's page:
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I should also have mentioned that one of the five series mentioned above also includes Vetter himself!

Throwing in Offenburg on 24 April...

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Well, it depends on how you define best!

There have only been five series that I could find with a winning throw of greater than 90m and...

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Former Canberra hammer thrower, Stuart Rendell (79.29 NR, '00 & 04 OG rep, 03 WC finalist and 98 & 06 CWG gold), scored a front page photo and...

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Australian gymnastics has received a kicking in a recent report for many now well known bekhaviours.

News story covering the Australian Institute...

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Alexander Kolesnikoff, shotputter with multiple PBs this year while studying a fulltime load online at Harvard University, has a rather unusual father....

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In addition to olorin's answer above, we had a thread two years ago, talking about recovery time between decathlons as well as numbers per year. However,...

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Bannister Close is parallel to Iffley Road and just near the track. Wikipedia says the Oxford track has been on the same site since 1876 - https://e...

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Well, I checked the last 25 seasons and got the following table of competitions with three or more runners under 8 minutes:


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Results in .pdf for the Australian 3000m championships from last night: https://cdn.revolutionise.com.au/cup...barzndr9iq.pdf
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Sorry, I have no special knowledge on this. The best I can suggest is check the AA twitter account because they sometimes post a link not long before...

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The guy that was one of only 10 throwers over 80m that year and the only western bloc athlete, with 8 x USSR, 2 x GDR and 1 x BUL?

The guy...

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You mean these guys?

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If you are using the Firefox browser, enter Google.com in the address bar, when the site opens, just click in the address bar (do nothing else). This...

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He hasn't had any runup problems jumping this season because his competitons have really been as exciting as his training sessions. Hohum, jump 5.80,...

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Marschall explains his disaster by admitting he didn't account for his improved strength and speed when combined with a bit of extra adrenaline. He admitted...

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I'm not sure if Australia is having a revival because standards have not improved across all events. Like most small populations, Australia (25 million)...

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No, it was about the propensity on this board for the details of obscure performances to be provided to people's surprise.

So, the stats...

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Canberra's Jye Edwards scored a backpage photo and story in the Canberra Times yesterday after his storming win in the 1500 at nationals.

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