javelin throw

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Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

Heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Daley Thompson at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games

Ancient Olympic Games

See a comparative study of four Olympic hurling objects - the hammer, the javelin, the discus, and the shot put

Study a side-view demonstration of a track-and-field athlete throwing a javelin

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Javelin illustration.

Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

Heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Daley Thompson at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games

Ancient Olympic Games

See a comparative study of four Olympic hurling objects - the hammer, the javelin, the discus, and the shot put

Study a side-view demonstration of a track-and-field athlete throwing a javelin

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ancient Olympic Games decathlon heptathlon athletics pole vault weight throw hammer throw shot put long jump discus throw pentathlon high jump triple jump running

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Tokyo 2020

Neeraj Chopra

Indian athlete

Arshad Nadeem aiming for gold

Arshad Nadeem

Pakistani track-and-field athlete

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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Paavo Yrjölä: The Farmhand

Finnish athlete

Olympic gold medal winner Liu Shiying

Liu Shiying

Chinese track-and-field athlete

Ruth Fuchs

Ruth Fuchs

German athlete

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Eric Lemming

Swedish athlete

Galina Zybina

Galina Zybina

Soviet athlete

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