European Throwing Cup 2023 in Leiria, Portugal / Leiria Municipal Stadium

In the men’s javelin the Portuguese record holder Leandro Ramos gave a good performance and won the Men’s competition with 78.57m, just 1cm further from Iceland’s Dagbjartur Dadi Jonsson’s 78.56cm. Spain’s Manu Quijera was third with 78.42m.  

The best performance of the day came in the men's U23 javelin. Ukraine's reigning world U20 champion Artur Felfner justified his status as pre-meeting favourite. He was the only competitor to go over 80 metres with a first round throw of 80.09m. Lenny Brisseault of France placed placed second with 72.55m, and with a U20 world lead throw of 72.46m György Herczeg of Hungary finished third place. 

Felfner's impressive win also means that he will enter consideration as a serious title contender at this year's European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland in July. Herczeg’s promising season start may lead him a medal at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel in August.

Picture: Andreas Thorkildsen with future javelin hopes

 

JAVELIN THROW MEN SENIOR

Gold 78.57m Leandro Ramos / Protugal

Silver 78.56m Dagbjartur Dadi Jonsson / Iceland

Bronz 78.42m Manu Quijera / Spain

 

JAVELIN THROW MEN U23

Gold 80.09m  Artur Felfner / UKR         

Silver 72.55m (SB) Lenny Brisseault / FRA

Bronz 72.46m (WU20L) György Herczeg / HUN

Full results here.

The Leiria 2023 European Throwing Cup was live streamed on the European Athletics YouTube channel and can be replayed here.

 

 

In the women’s javelin, 2022 European champion Elina Tzengko of Greece had the best finished first with 63.65m before Serbian duo Marija Vucenovic and Adriana Vilagos.

Vucenovic's best of 60.56 came in the fifth round and European silver medallist Vilagos produced a best of 59.83m in round three.

The women’s U23 javelin event was later won by Croatia’s Veronika Sokota with a fourth round effort of 56.82m. 

JAVELIN THROW WOMEN SENIOR

Gold 63.65m (EU23L) Elina Tzengko / GRE

Silver 60.56m SB Marija Vucenovic / SRB

Bronz 59.83 (WU20L) Adriana Vilagos / SRB

JAVELIN THROW WOMEN U23

Gold 56.82m SB Veronika Sokota / CRO

Silver 55.23m SB Petra Sicakova / CZE

Bronz 54.69 SB  Estra Türkmen / TUR