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Bookmark or Share- Javelin - WikipediaJavelins, including barbed angons, were used as an offensive weapon from behind the shield wall or by warriors who left the protective formation and attacked the enemy as skirmishers. [15] Designed to be difficult to remove from either flesh or wood, the Angon javelin used by Anglo-Saxon warriors was an effective means of disabling an opponent ...
- From Held to Hohn and beyond – the evolution of the javelinThe World Athletics Heritage collection in the Museum of World Athletics contains the 1912 Olympic winning javelin of the first men's official world record-holder, Eric Lemming, and the javelin with which Jan Zelezny set the current men's world record in 1996.
- Javelin Throw - World AthleticsThe javelin is a track and field event where athletes compete to throw a javelin, a long spear-like object with a metal head, the farthest distance. Javelin throw is an event that takes place at the World Athletics Championships and the Olympic Games.
- Javelin throw | Definition, Rules, Olympics, Length, Weight, & Facts ...Javelin throw is an athletics (track-and-field) sport of throwing a spear for distance, included in the ancient Greek Olympic Games as one of the five events of the pentathlon competition. It became an event in the modern Olympic Games in 1908.
- Javelin throw rules and scoring system - Olympics.comThe objective of javelin throw is to hurl a narrow cylindrical hollow spear the furthest distance possible. Throwers must abide by a set of rules for their throws to count as valid. For the throw to be counted, the javelin must land tip first inside the bounds of the landing sector.
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