Jennifer Dahlgren

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discipline Hammer throw

Jennifer Dahlgren Fitzner (born April 21, 1984 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine hammer thrower .

Jennifer Dahlgren has lived in the United States since she was five , first in Texas, then in Athens since 2003 and is studying English at the University of Georgia . Her mother Irene Fitzner took part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich as a sprinter . Dahlgren trained first with Andrés Charadía , from 2003 with Donald Babbit and since 2010 with Marcelo Pugliese . She is 1.81 m tall and weighs 118 kg.

Internationally, she made an appearance at the World Junior Athletics Championships in 2000 , but only finished eleventh. In 2001 she was fourth in the youth competition, and in 2002 she was fifth again in the juniors. Dahlgren set numerous South American records in the youth field and won several titles in South and Pan American youth competitions. In 2003 she broke the 60-meter mark for the first time and improved the Argentine youth record to 61.60 m. The new personal best of 66.12 m in June 2004 at the NCAA championships in Austin (Texas) secured her participation in the Olympic Games . In Athens she stayed with 59.52 m below her possibilities and finished the competition as 43rd after qualifying. Things went better for her at the 2005 South American Athletics Championships in Cali , where she won the title with a new championship record of 65.05 m. She defended this title in Tunja in 2006 with 69.07 m. In 2006 she threw in Fayetteville (Arkansas) 71.78 m and exceeded the 70 meters for the first time, in the course of the year she increased in Greensboro (North Carolina) to 72.01 m. In 2007 she again improved her best performance - at the same time the Argentine record - to 72.94 m, but had to bow to the two Cubans Yipsi Moreno and Arasay Thondike with 68.70 m at the Pan American Games . In 2008 she was handicapped by a foot injury, it remained with a season best of 66.38 m. She threw only three centimeters shorter at the Summer Olympics in Beijing , but this was only 29th after qualifying. In 2009 Dahlgren picked up on her old performance level, achieving her best of the year in February with 72.79 m in Buenos Aires. At the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin she finished seventeen, 68.90 m was her width. The year 2010 started Dahlgren with a further increase of the Argentine record when she improved in April in Buenos Aires to 73.74 m.

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  1. ↑ a b Victor Pochat: Focus on Athletes - Jennifer Dahlgren ( English ) IAAF . August 24, 2007. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008. Retrieved on May 11, 2010.
  2. ↑ Athletics at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Women's Hammer Throw ( English ) Sports Reference LLC. August 25, 2004. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  3. ↑ Eduardo Biscayart: Dahlgren takes South American hammer record beyond 70m ( English ) IAAF. May 17, 2006. Retrieved May 11, 2010.
  4. ↑ Eduardo Biscayart: Latest South American news ( English ) IAAF. April 18, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  5. ↑ Moreno takes Hammer with 75.20 Games record - Pan-American Games, Day Two ( English ) IAAF. July 24, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  6. ↑ Athletics at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Women's Hammer Throw ( English ) Sports Reference LLC. August 20, 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  7. ↑ 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Berlin 2009 ( English ) IAAF. August 20, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  8. ↑ Eduardo Biscayart: Prepping for Hammer Throw Challenge opener, Dahlgren breaks South American record in Buenos Aires ( English ) IAAF. April 12, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Dahlgren, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahlgren Fitzner, Jennifer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina