{"id":13347,"date":"2012-08-10T02:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-olympics-athletics-czech-spotakova-retains-javelin-title\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:19:25","slug":"update-1-olympics-athletics-czech-spotakova-retains-javelin-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-olympics-athletics-czech-spotakova-retains-javelin-title\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Olympics-Athletics-Czech Spotakova retains javelin title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(recasts with quotes, byline)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Nick Mulvenney<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; World record holder Barbora<br \/>\nSpotakova successfully defended her Olympic javelin title in<br \/>\ndominant style on Thursday and immediately started plotting a<br \/>\nhat-trick in Brazil in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Czech led the competition from her first attempt of<br \/>\n66.90 metres and while her night peaked with her fourth throw of<br \/>\n69.55, all four legal efforts were longer than anyone else in<br \/>\nthe field could manage.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spotakova was just the second woman to win the title at<br \/>\nsuccessive Games after East Germany&#8217;s Ruth Fuchs, who claimed<br \/>\ngold in 1972 and 1976, and she now wants to match her coach and<br \/>\ncompatriot Jan Zelezny&#8217;s tally.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My coach has won it three times so I still have things to<br \/>\ndo. I feel amazing. I am 31 years old, I have got so much<br \/>\nexperience and I am feeling healthy,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zelezny won the men&#8217;s javelin title at the 1992, 1996 and<br \/>\n2000 Olympics and still holds world record of 98.48m.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Christina Obergfoell took silver with her opening<br \/>\nattempt of 65.16m before fouling her five subsequent throws. Her<br \/>\ncompatriot Linda Stahl finished third for bronze with 64.91m.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s world champion Maria Abakumova, who took<br \/>\nSpotakova&#8217;s title in Daegu last year, failed to reach the final<br \/>\neight after managing a best throw of just 59.34m.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(recasts with quotes, byline) By Nick Mulvenney LONDON Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; World record holder Barbora Spotakova successfully defended her Olympic javelin title in dominant style on Thursday and immediately started plotting a hat-trick in Brazil in 2016. The Czech led the competition from her first attempt of 66.90 metres and while her night peaked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}