2004 European Winter Throwing Challenge

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The 2004 European Winter Throwing Challenge was held on 13 and 14 March at St. John Athletic Stadium in Marsa, Malta. It was the fourth edition of the athletics competition for throwing events organised by the European Athletics Association. The 2004 event was the last to use the challenge name, as subsequent editions were known as European Cup Winter Throwing events. A total of 147 athletes from 28 countries entered the competition. [1]

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The competition featured men's and women's contests in shot put, discus throw, javelin throw and hammer throw. Athletes were seeded into "A" and "B" groups in each competition. Russia topped the points table in the women's and men's division of the team competition. With four medals, it shared the greatest medal haul alongside Germany, which was runner-up in the points table but was the only nation to have two winners from the eight events on offer.

The host nation, Malta, had only one athlete at the event – men's javelin thrower Jean Paul Callus. Callus broke the Maltese record with his opening throw, recording a new best mark of 59.93 m (196 ft 7+14 in) for his country. [2] The weather was not conducive to high standard performances and Callus gave the sole record performance of the challenge. [3]

Five athletes went on to take medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics: Eşref Apak was a bronze medallist, Vadims Vasiļevskis, Nadine Kleinert and Steffi Nerius took Olympic silver, and Natalya Sadova became the Olympic champion in women's discus. Despite going on to this success, among these only Vasiļevskis was a winner in the European Winter Throwing Challenge.

Medal summary

Men

EventGoldSilverBronze
Shot putFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Rutger Smith  (NED)20.23 mFlag of Slovenia.svg  Miran Vodovnik  (SLO)19.65 mFlag of Russia.svg  Grigoriy Panfilov  (RUS)19.43 m
Discus throwFlag of Estonia.svg  Gerd Kanter  (EST)63.21 mFlag of Spain.svg  Mario Pestano  (ESP)62.00 mFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Rutger Smith  (NED)59.84 m
Javelin throwFlag of Latvia.svg  Vadims Vasiļevskis  (LAT)82.44 mFlag of Latvia.svg  Ainārs Kovals  (LAT)82.13 mFlag of Finland.svg  Teemu Wirkkala  (FIN)80.87 m
Hammer throwFlag of Hungary.svg  Krisztián Pars  (HUN)79.69 mFlag of Turkey.svg  Eşref Apak  (TUR)77.76 mFlag of Greece.svg  Alexandros Papadimitriou  (GRE)77.13 m
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

EventGoldSilverBronze
Shot putFlag of Ukraine.svg  Vita Pavlysh  (UKR)19.39 mFlag of Germany.svg  Nadine Kleinert  (GER)18.17 mFlag of Italy.svg  Assunta Legnante  (ITA)17.96 m
Discus throwFlag of Germany.svg  Franka Dietzsch  (GER)60.32 mFlag of Russia.svg  Natalya Sadova  (RUS)60.28 mFlag of France.svg  Mélina Robert-Michon  (FRA)58.69 m
Javelin throwFlag of Russia.svg  Valeriya Zabruskova  (RUS)63.84 mFlag of Germany.svg  Steffi Nerius  (GER)62.80 mFlag of Russia.svg  Yekaterina Ivakina  (RUS)61.34 m
Hammer throwFlag of Germany.svg  Andrea Bunjes  (GER)67.99 mFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Shirley Webb  (GBR)67.52 mFlag of Finland.svg  Sini Latvala  (FIN)67.49 m

Medal and points table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)2204
2Flag of Russia.svg  Russia  (RUS)1124
3Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia  (LAT)1102
4Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)1012
5Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia  (EST)1001
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)1001
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)1001
8Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)0101
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia  (SLO)0101
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)0101
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey  (TUR)0101
12Flag of Finland.svg  Finland  (FIN)0022
13Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)0011
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece  (GRE)0011
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)0011
16Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus  (BLR)0000
Totals (16 entries)88824

Participation

References

  1. European Cup Winter Throwing Archived 2013-06-09 at the Wayback Machine . RFEA. Retrieved on 2013-11-16.
  2. Grech, Paul (2004-03-14). 4th European Winter Throwing Challenge 2004 Marsa / MLT, 13-14 March 2004. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-11-16.
  3. European Winter Throwing Challenge. IAAF (2004-03-15). Retrieved on 2013-11-16.
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