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Slovak hammer thrower
Libor Charfreitag
Trnava, Czechoslovakia
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Weight 117 kg (258 lb) Country Slovakia Sport Athletics Event Hammer throw Club Slavia Trnava Personal best 81.81 m (2003)
Libor Charfreitag (born 11 September 1977 in Trnava ) is a former hammer thrower from Slovakia . His personal best throw is 81.81 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Prague .
Career
He was chosen Slovak athlete of the year in 2003. He attended
Dallas, Texas
.
He had a highly successful season in 2010: he won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships , beat all-comers at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and finished third in the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge series, finishing behind Asian throwers Koji Murofushi and Dilshod Nazarov .[1]
Achievements
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Notes
Representing Slovakia
1996
World Junior Championships
Sydney, Australia
13th (q)
61.52 m
1999
Universiade
Palma de Mallorca , Spain
8th
75.18 m
European U23 Championships
Gothenburg, Sweden
5th
72.82 m
World Championships
Seville, Spain
32nd (q)
70.20 m
2000
Olympic Games
Sydney, Australia
30th (q)
72.52 m
2001
World Championships
Edmonton, Canada
18th (q)
75.29 m
Universiade
China
10th
69.49 m
2002
European Championships
Munich, Germany
7th
79.20 m
2003
World Championships
Paris, France
13th
76.52 m
World Athletics Final
Szombathely , Hungary
2nd
81.22 m
2004
Olympic Games
Athens , Greece
6th
77.54 m
World Athletics Final
Szombathely , Hungary
5th
76.99 m
2005
World Championships
Helsinki, Finland
8th
76.05 m
World Athletics Final
Szombathely , Hungary
6th
76.59 m
2006
European Championships
Gothenburg, Sweden
14th (q)
74.13 m
2007
World Championships
Osaka , Japan
3rd
81.60 m
World Athletics Final
Stuttgart , Germany
7th
75.89 m
2008
Olympic Games
China
8th
78.65 m
2009
World Championships
Berlin, Germany
10th
72.63 m
2010
European Championships
Barcelona , Spain
1st
80.02 m
2011
World Championships
Daegu, South Korea
22nd (q)
72.20 m
2012
European Championships
Helsinki, Finland
26th (q)
69.65 m
2016
European Championships
Amsterdam, Netherlands
–
NM
References
IAAF
(2010-09-08). Retrieved on 2010-09-08.
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