Javelin throw, women

What to remember

On September 13, 2008, at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Czech thrower Barbora Špotáková sent the javelin 72.28 m. That same year she had won the Olympic title. The javelin is a spear about 2.5 m long, thrown as far as possible after a run-up inside a marked area.

Born on June 30, 1981, Špotáková is a two-time Olympic champion, in 2008 and 2012, and a three-time world champion, in 2007, 2011 and 2017. The javelin is also one of the events of the women's heptathlon and the men's decathlon, the two combined events of athletics.