Libor Charfreitag
Slovak hammer thrower
Charfreitag at the 2007 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Slovak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 11 September 1977 (1977-09-11) (age 47) Trnava, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 117 kg (258 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Slovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Slavia Trnava | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 81.81 m (2003) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Libor Charfreitag (born 11 September 1977 in Trnava) is a former hammer thrower from Slovakia. His personal best throw is 81.81 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Prague.
Career
He was chosen Slovak athlete of the year in 2003. He attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
He had a highly successful season in 2010: he won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, beat all-comers at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and finished third in the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge series, finishing behind Asian throwers Koji Murofushi and Dilshod Nazarov.[1]
Achievements
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Libor Charfreitag.
- Libor Charfreitag at World Athletics
- Libor Charfreitag at Olympedia
- Libor Charfreitag at Olympics.com
- Libor Charfreitag at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)
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European Athletics Championships champions in men's hammer throw
- 1934: Ville Pörhölä (FIN)
- 1938: Karl Hein (GER)
- 1946: Bo Ericson (SWE)
- 1950: Sverre Strandli (NOR)
- 1954: Mikhail Krivonosov (URS)
- 1958: Tadeusz Rut (POL)
- 1962: Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)
- 1966: Romuald Klim (URS)
- 1969: Anatoliy Bondarchuk (URS)
- 1971: Uwe Beyer (FRG)
- 1974: Aleksey Spiridonov (URS)
- 1978: Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1982: Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1986: Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1990: Igor Astapkovich (URS)
- 1994: Vasiliy Sidorenko (RUS)
- 1998: Tibor Gécsek (HUN)
- 2002: Adrián Annus (HUN)
- 2006: Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (FIN)
- 2010: Libor Charfreitag (SVK)
- 2012: Krisztián Pars (HUN)
- 2014: Krisztián Pars (HUN)
- 2016: Paweł Fajdek (POL)
- 2018: Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
- 2022: Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
- 2024: Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
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