What Did They Throw As Junior Athletes? Men's Javelin Edition

Here is the most recent study of the top 10 Javelin throwers in 2015

Javelin Top Lists 2015	U18 – 700g	U20 – 800g	Open – 800g
Julius Yego	–	74.00	92.72
Keshorn Walcott	66.72	84.58	90.16
Thomas Rohler	–	78.20	89.27
Tero Pitkmaki	73.75 (800g)	77.24	91.53
Ihab Abdelrahmen	71.15 (800g)	76.20	89.21
Antti Ruuskanen	66.08 (800g)	72.87	88.98
Vitezslav Vesely	–	73.22	88.34
Ari Mannio	80.22	79.68	86.82
Magnus Kirt	–	72.97	86.65
Jakub Vadlejch	76.93	84.47	86.21

This is an interesting list as there are 2 extremes of the scale and not much middle ground.

Throwers such as Pitkmaki, Abdelrahmen, Mannio and Vadlejch really excelled throughout their youth career when compared to other throwers that were either not throwing or had not got marks good enough to be recorded such as Julius Yego and Thomas Rohler.

The interesting fact is with the Javelin throwers 8 out of the 10 throwers were throwing between 72.97 and 79.68 as junior athletes. After this 7m gap there are 2 outliers both having thrown 84 metres being Keshorn Walcott at the London Olympics in his famous win and Jakub Vadlejch.

When contrasted with the men’s shot, discus and hammer the Javelin has a much smaller range for junior throwers with all of these athletes throwing very good marks.

You can view the other posts below

Men’s Shot Put

Men’s Discus Throw

Men’s Hammer Throw

The next instalment to our series will be the womens throws so stay tuned!

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