{"id":13349,"date":"2012-08-10T02:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/olympics-athletics-czech-spotakova-defends-javelin-title\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T02:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:19:28","slug":"olympics-athletics-czech-spotakova-defends-javelin-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-athletics-czech-spotakova-defends-javelin-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Athletics-Czech Spotakova defends javelin title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; World record holder Barbora<br \/>\nSpotakova of the Czech Republic successfully defended her<br \/>\njavelin title in dominant style with a throw of 69.55 metres at<br \/>\nthe London Olympics on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old former world champion led the competition<br \/>\nfrom her first attempt of 66.90 and all four of her legal throws<br \/>\nwere longer than anyone else in the field could manage.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spotakova was just the second women to win the title at<br \/>\nsuccessive Games after East Germany&#8217;s Ruth Fuchs, who won gold<br \/>\nin 1972 and 1976.<\/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 and<br \/>\nher compatriot Linda Stahl finished third for bronze with<br \/>\n64.91m.<\/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 just 59.34m.     <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Nick Mulvenney)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; World record holder Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic successfully defended her javelin title in dominant style with a throw of 69.55 metres at the London Olympics on Thursday. The 31-year-old former world champion led the competition from her first attempt of 66.90 and all four of her legal throws [&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-13349","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\/13349","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=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}