World Record Progression: The Javelin 

It still astounds me that Zelezny nearly threw 100 meters even after the changes in the javelin were introduced. He was a monster of an athlete.

Dick Held is a great name for a Javelineer.

Michael Landon, the actor who played Pa in Little House on the Prairie and Little Joe in Bonanza, was an excellent javelin thrower, with his 193 ft 4 in (58.93 m) toss in 1954 being the longest throw by a high schooler in the United States that year. Just thought you might like to know.

8:00 LMAO “Dick Held”

2009 Jan Zelezny was 42 years old and was coaching another Czech thrower Jakub Vadlejch. At practise session as an examble he throw 84,78m three years after retiring!!

Zelezny's throw technique is wild. It looks like he is throwing a baseball, instead of a giant spear, the way his arm whips through so quickly.

Finally a video about people who are better than me at throwing 😌

I love this series so much! Please keep making more :D

Love the videos! A marathon progression video would be sick!

Uwe Hohn didn't continue into the "new javelin" era in 1986 on due to a major back injury sustained after East German coaches pushed him too hard in the weight room. It wasn't due to the change in the javelin for him.

In 1970, Al Cantello was an assistant coach under Jim Gehrdes at the NAVAL ACADEMY. I was a triple jumper on the plebe squad and Al gave me A LOT of advice on that event. He was truly a man with EXTENSIVE track and field knowledge

Notice that all the javelin record holders, are basically all light and middle weights, but shot put record holders are basically all heavyweights.

7:20 You mean *that* Cy Young?

great content. Can't wait for your channel to blow up

Great work Sir keep it up.

Well done!

Nice video, I take a bit of issue with 22:42 though... Anderson Peters threw 90+ at 4 competitions last year before getting beat up on a boat and thrown overboard and ending his season, seems like he'll only get better from here. Johannes Vetter probably was the best prospect to throw 100 though, but I'm not sure if it will happen now with all his injuries. Is a shame as we might have to wait another generation for another prospect...

I've been the top javelin and shot putter in my home city for the last 8 years now.

make one whit discus pls

crazy

Anyone named Cy Young was born to throw things

I just hit a new jav pr today!!! 50.14m. Feels bad that people can double that 💀

Given the constant redesigns to make long throws more difficult, I wonder what distances today's elite throwers would be reaching using the equipment of the 1950's.

is there a way to know how far Zelezny might have thrown it if he had uwes javelin when Zelezny had 98m?

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BRO PUT A STINKY INDIAN ON THIS VIDEO

What would Zelezny have thrown the javelin from the mid-80s???? 115m?

What do you mean Anderson Peters struggles to hit 90? He had this best season so far last year and this year just started.

yeah

Minor error, you say egil danielsen held the first norwegian record, but you also have a G. Gran from Norway with a 19th century record. Not sure which is the error, curious to know

7:57 oh no. Is that really his name? Why did his parents hate him? 🤣

connecting quickly before this goes from 8k views to 2.4m

I guess you're not talking about any marks from ancient Olympics

Bro I can't even do 40m 😱

Atlatl throwing should be a sport.

what is a meter? /j

Garth Brooks threw javelin for Oklahoma State