Lara Nielsen

Lara Nielsen
nation	Australia
birthday	19th December 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Toowoomba , Australia
size	166 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	66.90 m (February 26, 2017 in Sydney )
Trainer	Graham Pitt
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Gold Coast 2018 65.03 m
last change: May 16, 2019

Lara Nielsen (born December 19, 1992 in Toowoomba ) is an Australian hammer thrower .

Athletic career

Lara Nielsen gained her first international experience at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moncton , where she was eliminated from the qualification with a width of 53.20 m. In 2014 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for the first time and was ninth there with 60.18 m. The following year, she took seventh place at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju with a throw of 63.34 m. Two years later she reached sixth place at the Student World Games in Taipei with 65.47 m and in 2018 she won the bronze medal behind New Zealander Julia Ratcliffe and her compatriot Alexandra Hulley at the Commonwealth Games in the local Gold Coast with a throw of 65.03 m .

From 2013 to 2017 Nielsen was the Australian hammer throw champion. She graduated from the University of Southern Queensland with a degree in Commerce .

Web links

• Lara Nielsen in the database of World Athletics (English)