Patrik Bodén

Patrik Bodén (born June 30, 1967 in Fryksände ) is a Swedish athlete who was active as a javelin thrower in the 1990s . Starting for IF Göta , he won seven national championships:

year	1992	1993	1994	1995	1997	1998	1999
Width (m)	80.24	81.84	86.24	77.58	84.66	77.75	79.97

With 89.10 m he set a world record in Austin on March 24, 1990 , which he lost ten months later to the British Steve Backley , the first 90 m thrower with the new javelin. However, Boden holds the Swedish record to this day (2006).

He took part in a total of ten European championships, world championships and Olympic Games, but was only able to win one medal:

Services

Event	placement	winner
European Championships 1990 Split	BRONZE with 82.66 m	87.30 m Steve Backley
World Championships 1991 Tokyo	Eight with 78.58 m	90.82 m Kimmo Kinnunen
XV. 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics	16th with 77.70 m	89.66 m Jan Železný
World Championships 1993 Stuttgart	Eight with 78.00 m	85.98 m Jan Železný
European Championships 1994 Helsinki	Fourth with 81.34 m	85.20 m Steve Backley
World Championships 1995 Gothenburg	15th with 77.62 m	89.58 m Jan Železný
World Championships 1997 Athens	12th with 80.66 m	88.40 Marius Corbett
European Championships 1998 Budapest	12th with 79.73 m	89.72 m Steve Backley
World Championships 1999 Seville	24th with 75.66 m	89.52 m Aki Parviainen
XVII. 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney	23rd with 78.06 m	90.17 m Jan Železný

The following list of his annual bests shows that he was apparently unable to call up his performance potential at the right moment. In his last appearance in Sydney, for example, he was more than seven meters below his possibilities:

year	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Width (m)	82.28	89.10	85.58	84.20	88.26	86.24	82.40	83.52	86.98	85.15	84.52	85.16

Web links

• Patrik Bodén in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at worldathletics.org