Women's Javelin throw (Saturday)

When Vira Rebryk picked up the javelin to prepare for round five of the competition at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki last year, she was in third position.

But seconds later, not only had broken her country's national record, her throw of 66.86m had taken her to gold.

Rebryk, the European junior champion from Hengelo in 2007, had fulfilled all that promise by transferring her glory to the senior international stage.

But then she failed to take her Helsinki form into the Olympic Games in London where she was only 19th in qualifying, reaching a best of 58.97m.

Third behind her in Finland had been Germany's Linda Stahl with 63.69m and she maintained that throwing to also win Olympic bronze with a season's best of 64.91m.

A duel between Rebryk and Stahl will make fascinating viewing in Castellon.

New year, new hope for them both and with the World Championships in Moscow as their major focus, the duo may well find themselves on top of the European rankings by the end of the day.

Men's Javelin throw (Sunday):

By the end of the 2013 summer season, Russians Valeriy Iordan and Dmitriy Tarabin could find themselves among the most-talked about young field eventers in the sport.

At 21, Iordan is a rising star of the javelin world, a position he cemented by finishing second at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki last summer, his throw of 83.23m bringing silver as Vitezslav Vesely, of the Czech Republic, won gold with 83.72m.

But that personal best from Helsinki by Iordan has already been replaced in 2013 by his 83.56m then he finished second at the Russian Winter Throwing Championships in Alder at the end of last month.

He was beaten by Dmitriy Tarabin, five months his senior, whose throw of 85.63m at that event was the best by a European in 2013, putting him top of the European rankings from Iordan.

Both men are in Castellon in a year where they will be looking to make an impression at both the European Athletics U23 Championships in Tampere and the World Championships in Moscow.

Iordan opts for the under-23 event this weekend while in the senior competition, of the 17-man field, only eight of them have thrown this winter.
Tarabin will face his fellow Russian Aleksey Tovarnov, who threw 82.54m in Adler, while with 83.26m from Ancona, German Thomas Rohler is the only other man in the senior event to have passed 80m this year.

source:european-athletics.org

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