Jakub Vadlejch

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Jakub Vadlejch athletics

Jakub Vadlejch in Prague (2010)
Jakub Vadlejch in Prague (2010)

nation Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
birthday 10th October 1990 (age 29)
place of birth Prague ,  CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 
size 190 cm
Weight 93 kg
Career
discipline Javelin throw
Best performance 89.73 m (August 12, 2017 in London )
society TJ Dukla Praha
Trainer Jan Železný
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
silver London 2017 89.73 m
last change: August 24, 2017

Jakub Vadlejch (born October 10, 1990 in Prague ) is a Czech javelin thrower .

Career

At the Youth World Championships 2007 in Ostrava Jakub Vadlejch finished twelfth; a year later at the Junior World Championships in 2008 in Bydgoszcz tenth place. At the 2009 Junior European Championships in Novi Sad , Serbia , Jakub Vadlejch finished eighth with 69.63 m.

With his participation in the European Championships 2010 in Barcelona Vadlejch took part in a major international event for the first time, but could not qualify for the final with 76.04 m and 16th place in the qualification. With 80.08 m, he also reached 16th place in the qualification at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, Korea, and was eliminated.

Even at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London Vadlejch could not qualify for the final of the top twelve with 77.61 m as 25th in the javelin qualification . Also not at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , where he finished 20th in qualification with 78.95 m.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Vadlejch took eighth place in the javelin final with 82.42 m. In the same year he won the Diamond League title with 50 points ahead of Thomas Röhler (46) and Julian Weber (15) .

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Vadlejch won the javelin final with a personal best of 89.73 m behind Johannes Vetter and ahead of compatriot Petr Frydrych ; he only missed 16 centimeters of gold. Two weeks later he won the Diamond League final in Zurich with 88.50 m ahead of Vetter .

His trainer is multiple Olympic champion and world record holder Jan Železný .

Personal best

  • Javelin throw: 89.73 m, 12 August 2017, London
  • Javelin throw (700 g): 80.52 m, September 19, 2009, Moscow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Men's javelin throw, London 2012 Summer Olympics , on olympic.org. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ Javelin men, Olympic Summer Games 2016 in Rio , on olympic.org. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ Lothar Martin: Czechs javelin aces conquer complete set of medals in London , on Radio Praha (in German), on August 14, 2017. Accessed on August 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ Vadlejch i Frydrych se chtějí medailí odrazit k dalším úspěchům , on sport.aktualne.cz (Czech), from August 14, 2017. Accessed on August 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ First gold for Germany - Javelin thrower Vetter becomes world champion , on welt.de, August 12, 2017. Accessed on August 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Eight world champions dethroned, Gesa Felicitas Krause scratches her record , on eichtathletik.de, from August 24, 2017. Retrieved on August 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Vadlejch, Jakub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech javelin thrower
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague