Week 5 "Throws"

Hello, this is my blog’s fifth topic! Last week, I wrote about “Jumps” one of the track and field events. Four categories of track and field I have written that require players “speed”. But today, I`ll write about “Throws” that are powerful events!! Players don’t run fast with their legs, players throw too heavy things with his arms!! Today also start by seeing the world recorders and their records.

 

Men

Shot...23m12(Randy Barnes : United States of America)

Discs...74m08(Jürgen Schult : East Germany)

Hummer...86m74(Youri Georgiyevich Sedykh : Soviet Union)

Javelin...98m48(Jan Zelezny : Czech Republic)

 

Women

Shot...22m63(Natalya Lisovskaya : Soviet Union)

Discs..76m80(Gabriele Reinsch : East Germany)

Hummer...89m42(Betty Heidler : Poland)

Javelin...72m28(Barbora Spotakova : Czech Republic)

Event … records (name : country)

(Wikipedia)

Can you understand what is “shot”, “discs”, “hummer” or “javelin”? Their official names are “shot put”, “discs throw”, “hummer throw” and “javelin throw”. seeing theirs name you have some strange sense. What is “shot put”? Why not “shot throw”? It is a reasonable question. Also, there is a reasonable reason for this question. I`ll write the weight which players throw later, used thing in shot put is so heavy that if they try to  “throw” as throwing some balls, for example used in baseball, they may break their shoulder!! So every player doesn’t “throw” but “put” out. It is decided by a competition rule.

              Next, I want tell you how heavy thing they throw,

Men

Shot... 7.260kg

Discs…2kg

Hummer...7.260kg

Javelin...0.8kg

Women

Shot...4kg

Discs...1kg

Hummer...4kg

Javelin...0.6kg

 

Can you imagine how heavy they are? 7.260kg = 16pound. When you go to bowling, there are most heavy bowling-balls in all bowling alleys. It is 16 pound!! Imagine the 16 pound bowling-ball put on your one shoulder, and put out the ball with a little approach, and the ball flies about 20m or more. It is so amazing!!

 

By the way, there is a great Japanese player in throwing event. I think that you also know the name, Murofushi Kouji. He specializes in hammer throw and he have Japanese record of the event. He is often called “Tetsujin Murofushi”. It means iron man that is very strong man!! His official name is “Koji Alexander Murofushi”. His father is Murofushi Shigenobu who is previous Japanese record holder of hammer throw and his mother is Serafina Moritz who is the representative of Romania for the Olympics of javelin throw. And he have an little sister, Yuka Murofushi, who has Japanese record of discs throw. The blood as a throwing event player is flowing into his body!!

Since he has too much career and glories that I can’t write all here today. So I write three of them that are too excellent. First, his best record is 84m86 that is naturally Japanese record and fifth record in the world. Second, He won the Athens Olympics in 2004 and he became first Olympics gold medalist as an Asian in the throw event of the track and field. Third, he is continuing to win 18 times at a Japanese championship. Forth, fifth… there are really too much glories!! I think he is a pride of Japan.

 

Today I write about throw event and Murofushi Koji. He is a very great person!! It is happy that Japanese can win the gold medals at track and field!!

My 5^th week’s topic “throws” is over. Next time, I’ll write about “Combined events” and be happy you read it. See you next time!!

 

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