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Jan Železný (; born 16 June 1966) is a Czech former track and field athlete who competed in the . He is a World and champion and holds the world record with a throw of . Widely considered the greatest javelin thrower of the modern era, he also has the fourth, fifth and sixth best performances of all time. He broke the world record a total of four times.


Biography
Železný was born in Mladá Boleslav, . He won the silver medal in the 1988 Olympics and the gold medal at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympic Games. He won World Championship titles in 1993, 1995 and 2001.

Železný holds the world record of , set in 1996, and the World Championships record of , set in 2001. On 26 March 1997 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, he threw over the 90-metre barrier five times in a single meet. Until September 2020, he was also the only athlete to throw more than 95 metres with the new type of javelin, something he achieved three times.

During his career, Železný had many great battles against the likes of , Sergey Makarov, , Seppo Räty, and .

Železný planned to retire after the 2006 European Championships in , where he won the bronze medal with a throw of . He took leave of his career on 19 September 2006 on exhibition in Mladá Boleslav, the place where he started with athletics.

Železný coaches Vítězslav Veselý and is the former coach of Barbora Špotáková.

Four days after winning a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics, Železný had a tryout as a with the at Fulton County Stadium. Both Železný and the Braves treated the tryout seriously and not as a "publicity stunt" or "sideshow", though Železný had no baseball experience beyond throwing a ball at home with his young son.


International competitions
1983European Junior Championships, Austria6thJavelin (old)71.26 m
1985European Junior Championships, 4thJavelin (old)75.10 m
1986European Championships, 18th ()Javelin75.90 m
1987World Championships, Italy3rdJavelin82.20 m
1988Olympic Games, South Korea2ndJavelin84.12 m
1990European ChampionshipsSplit, 13th ()Javelin77.64 m
1991World Championships, Japan18th ()Javelin76.26 m
1992Olympic Games, Spain1stJavelin89.66 m
1993World Championships, Germany1stJavelin85.98 m
1994European Championships, Finland3rdJavelin82.58 m
1995World Championships, Sweden1stJavelin89.58 m
1996Olympic Games, United States1stJavelin88.16 m
1997World Championships, Greece9thJavelin82.04 m
1999World Championships, Spain3rdJavelin87.67 m
2000Olympic Games, Australia1stJavelin90.17 m
2001World Championships, Canada1stJavelin92.80 m
Goodwill Games, Australia1stJavelin87.52 m
2002European Championships, Germany11thJavelin
2003World Championships, France4thJavelin84.09 m
2004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece9thJavelin80.59 m
2006European ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden3rdJavelin85.92 m


See also
  • List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event
  • List of European records in athletics


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