Goldie Sayers

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Goldie Sayers (born July 16, 1982 in Newmarket ; actually Katherine Sayers ) is a British javelin thrower. She is a three-time Olympian and holds the national record in javelin throwing.

Career

Sayers first caught the eye when she won several junior titles in the 2001 season and also improved junior records. That season she was named captain of the UK U20 team. The following year she finished sixth at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

Between 2003 and 2007 Sayers won the British championship five times in a row, but always missed top positions in international competitions. At her Olympic debut in Athens in 2004 she could not qualify for the final, at the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 European Championships she was twelfth.

At the beginning of the 2007 season, she improved at a sports festival at Loughborough University , where she also studies, the five-year-old British national record of Kelly Morgan by 18 centimeters to 65.05 m. She then confirmed this performance on June 3, 2007 at the Norwich Union Glasgow Grand Prix, when she threw 63.59 m in rainy weather and in the internationally occupied field, among others, left European champion Steffi Nerius and world champion Barbora Špotáková behind. The World Championships , which took place seven weeks later , were disappointing: with 57.23 m - her worst season of the season - she failed as 18th in the qualification.

In March 2008 Sayers won the European Winter Throwing Cup in Split with a width of 63.65 m. In August 2008, she competed in the Olympic Games in Beijing for the second time . In the final of the Olympic competition, she improved her own national record to 65.75 m and won the bronze medal as the first fourth after the doping-related disqualification of the silver medalist Maria Abakumova in 2016.

At the 2009 World Championships, she did not survive qualification. Two years later she was tenth at the World Championships in Daegu. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 Sayers reached fourth place. Shortly afterwards, she improved the British record to 66.17 m. At the Olympic Games in London, however, she did not reach the final due to injury.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olympics athletics: GB's Goldie Sayers' emotional javelin exit , BBC August 7, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Sayers, Goldie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayers, Katherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British athlete
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Newmarket