Diamond League Rome - Javelin Throw Women Results

05 May, 2014

Pos.	Name	Nationality	Result	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1.	ŠPOTÁKOVÁ Barbora	CZE	66.43 SB	x	66.43	66.38	64.65	65.06	66.05
2.	RATEJ Martina	SLO	63.12	58.01	62.38	62.34	x	63.12	62.00
3.	MICKLE Kimberley	AUS	63.05	60.07	59.81	x	63.05	61.67	x
4.	LI Lingwei	CHN	62.30 SB	61.98	62.30	59.13	60.76	60.37	59.37
5.	HATSKO Hanna	UKR	62.18	58.55	59.03	58.81	58.73	57.00	62.18
6.	PALAMEIKA Madara	LAT	59.94	59.00	57.19	58.16	x	58.56	59.94
7.	STAHL Linda	GER	59.16	55.69	x	58.30	57.61	59.16	58.64
8.	REBRYK Vira	RUS	58.94	57.46	x	57.90	x	58.94	x
9.	PATTERSON Kara	USA	57.30	56.93	57.30	x	-	-	-
10.	DOROZHON Marharita	UKR	56.49	56.49	x	54.44	-	-	-
11.	JEMAI Sara	ITA	53.20	47.20	47.85	53.20	-	-	-

Javelin world record-holder Barbora Spotakova had her first serious competition since the end of 2012 – notwithstanding a low-key competition last September – due to the birth of her first child last summer.

It seemed like she had never been away as, after one foul, she flung her spear out to 66.43m with her second effort and had three other throws over 66 metres to win by a huge margin. All of her valid throws were farther than the rest of the field could manage.

Her young son Jan, who was named after the Czech javelin legend Jan Zelezny and who along with her partner Lukasz was in the stands watching his mother in action in Rome’s historic Olympic Stadium, might be too young to be impressed but he was probably the only one who wasn’t.

A distant second, more than three metres adrift, was Slovenia’s Doha winner Martina Ratej with 63.12m.

source: iaaf

Barbora Spotakova