Results for the 8/8/04 Meet

Here are the results from the meet held on Sunday that Boldi mentioned in a previous post...

Men's Hammer Throw
1 Krisztián Pars (HUN) 79.62
2 Libor Charfreitag (SVK) 75.75
3 Holger Klose (GER) 73.64
4 Ali Mohamed Al-Zankawi (KUW) 72.65
5 Péter Botfa (HUN) 69.65

Notes: Libor Charfreitag is a former NCAA champion and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Ali Mohamed Al-Zankawi is only twenty years old and has a personal best of 76.54m. He is trained by Anatoli Bondarchuk, former Olympic champion and coach of Sedych.

Women's Hammer Throw
1 Candice Scott (TRI) 68.52
2 Kamila Skolimowska (POL) 68.35
3 Katalin Divós (HUN) 66.42
4 Bronwyn Eagles (AUS) 65.58
5 Lívia Marx (HUN) 65.48
6 Marwa Ahmed Hussein (EGY) 65.13
7 Éva Orbán (HUN) 64.28
8 Vanda Nickl (HUN) 61.77
9 Júlia Tudja (HUN) 59.98
10 Noémi Németh (HUN) 56.58

Notes: Candice Scott is the current NCAA champion in the hammer throw. She trains with coach Larry Judge at the University of Florida. Runner-up Kamila Skolimowska was the gold medalist at Sydney Olympics as an eighteen year old. Júlia Tudja was the NCAA runner-up while at the University of Southern California last year. She still trains with coach Dan Lange in Los Angeles and threw a personal best of 67.52m at the Mt. SAC relays in April.

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G. Martin Bingisser
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