Ferenc Paragi

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Ferenc Paragi [ ˈfɛrɛnʦ ˈpɒrɒɡi ] (born August 21, 1953 in Budapest ; † April 21, 2016 ) was a Hungarian athlete who was active as a javelin thrower in the late 1970s .

He made his international debut at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal , where he missed the required qualifying distance of 79 m with 77.48 m and came in 20th.

When he set a new world record on April 23, 1980 in Tata with 96.72 m and improved the old mark of his compatriot Miklós Németh by 2.14 m, he was considered the favorite for the Olympic Games in Moscow . There he came to 88.76 m, a distance with which he would have won the bronze medal if he had thrown it in the final and not in the qualification. In the final, the first attempt was judged to be invalid, the next two ended up below the 80-meter mark. The world record holder was only tenth with 79.52 m.

Between Paragi's Olympic appearances, there was a disappointing 9th place at the European Athletics Championships in 1978 in Prague , where more was expected from the Hungarian, having thrown 91.92 m the previous year and the best distance in qualifying with 86.04 m of all participants. In the final, however, the same thing happened as two years later in Moscow: He collapsed completely and did not get over the 80 m mark (79.04 m).

He finally won a medal at the Golden Event in Budapest in 1979 , where he came third with 85.38 m behind the Finns Arto Härkönen (1st with 90.18 m) and Antero Puranen (2nd with 89.40 m).

Ferenc Paragi won five Hungarian national championships:

  • 1975 (85.74 m)
  • 1976 (85.00 m)
  • 1977 (89.50 m)
  • 1979 (86.54 m)
  • 1982 (79.26 m)

Performance development:

year 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1982
Width (m) 89.92 87.80 91.92 84.90 92.14 96.72 86.78

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former javelin world record-holder Paragi dies