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Terje Pedersen

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  • Daley Thompson at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games
    athletics
    / The javelin throw

    Terje Pedersen (Norway) broke the 300-foot (91.44-meter) barrier in 1964, and by 1984 Uwe Hohn (East Germany) had thrown a prodigious 104.80 meters (343.8 feet), a throw so great that it influenced a change in the design of the javelin to keep it within the…

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    Terje Pedersen (Norway) broke the 300-foot (91.44-meter) barrier in 1964, and by 1984 Uwe Hohn (East Germany) had thrown a prodigious 104.80 meters (343.8 feet), a throw so great that it influenced a change in the design of the javelin to keep it within the…

    Read More