Former world champion Johannes Vetter launched the second best javelin throw in history on Sunday with an effort of 97.76 metres at Skolimo...
Former world champion Johannes Vetter launched the second best javelin throw in history on Sunday with an effort of 97.76 metres at Skolimowska Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Silesia, Poland
At the Continental Tour Gold level event in Chorzow, 27-year-old Vetter, who won gold at the 2017 world championships in London, came to less than a metre of three-time Olympic champion Jan Zelezny’s 1996 world record of 98.48m that has stood for 24 years.
Vetter threw more than three metres farther than he’s ever thrown before as he clinched gold with what was his third attempt.
And then, in his fourth attempt on the day, Vetter sent the javeling 94.84m, the fifth farthest throw ever.
German Vetter’s incredible throw on the night was also more than three metres further than his previous personal best (which was previously the second best all-time effort too), and moves him nearly four metres ahead of compatriot Thomas Rohler’s effort of 93.90m in 2017.
Here’s the video of Vetter’s throw that went beyond the officials:
Johannes Vetter. 97.76m 🚀
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“I just don’t know what to say, it was really close to a perfect moment,” Vetter said afterwards according to World Athletics.
“You can feel it in...
