Dmitriy Tarabin is ready to carry on the form that took him to the podium twice in 2013 - and the two major European events of the summer are very much on his agenda.

Russian Tarabin finished third in the javelin at the IAAF World Championships last year with a throw of 86.23m as the Czech Republic’s Vitezslav Vesely won with 87.17m.

He was also crowned champion at the Summer Universiade in Kazan with 83.11m during a superb spell, where he also broke his personal best with 88.84m at the national championships in Moscow, the second furthest by a European last year with Finland’s Tero Pitkamaki just topping that with 89.03m.

Pitkamaki won silver at the World Championships and the European Athletics Championships in Zurich will see the three Moscow medallists competing against each other again, but Tarabin wants a year of regularly reaching good distances.
He said: “My main season goal is to show top results during all the summer.”

It has already started well for him, with an impressive 81.70m at the Nizamutdinov Prizes in Adler this week. He was happy but knows there is more to come.

“We are still continuing our pre-season preparation, that is why I consider my result as good enough for now,” said Tarabin, 22, speaking to Rusathletics.com.

“My work has been very productive this year at training camps in Sochi and Estonia and training tests show that I laid great physical basis because I have set personal records in all weightlifting training tests."

His first big competition will be the second Diamond League meeting in Shanghai on 18 May - the series starts in Doha nine days earlier - and Tarabin will also be in Eugene and Oslo and aims to be in the Russian team for the European Athletics Team Championships in Braunschweig at the end of June.

source:european-athletics

Dmitriy Tarabin