It’s been a fabulous blur, track & field. 😌 Really, a life-defining, irreplaceable, horizon-expanding, treasured blur. I’ll miss you.
Watch
@WeltklasseZH
on Peacock, tonight at 8:20pm local time. 6 more throws! 🥰
📸:
@HowLao
There are too 👏many👏things👏happening👏at a track AND field meet to show call rooms on TV, ever. Put another camera at the hammer ring rather than underneath the stadium, plz.
Goodbye… or take the bye??
With a 64.98m throw,
@karathrowsjav
wins the javelin at the Diamond League final and secured a wild card entry into the 2023 World Championships.
If anything can talk her out of retiring… maybe a ticket to Budapest will do it?? 👀
At age 36, in her native Pacific Northwest, after two ACL surgeries, in her last season, in her last throw, in her last championships,
@karathrowsjav
won her first global medal.
The 4x Olympian is leaving sport fulfilled, with a community and impact that go beyond the field.
New role at
#USATFOutdoors
starts today!! Color commentator for field events + heptathlon on the main webcast feed on ! Watch/listen: And you can also stream individual, full events! Find those links there, too.
I remember taking a photo with Michelle, Amanda, and Gia when we were all current AR holders and active athletes. This is an equal, wild moment. So proud to be a member of this group of amazing women.
Olympic Trials
#6
starts on Friday for me 🤭 It’s been so fun to tell others’ stories this year. But nice to write my own lil’ extra chapter recently too. Whatever happens, happens!
Big ol’
@MagsGotSwag12
(and her parents) fan over here after I just watched Athlete A. What a composed, fun rock star of a human. So happy for you to rediscover your love of sport!! Read this awesome article:
The fact that there are multiple angles of
@RCrouserThrows
23.38m from
@SimplotGames
immediately, from the meet stream itself and MANY spectators is significant. Traditional, multi-angle, shareable coverage amplified by social users is where any sport gets real traction.
She knew exactly who she wanted to be for Halloween, and it is who she aspires to be like, Kara Winger, American record holder, 3x Olympian, USATF National Champion, PanAm Games Champion, etc. In other words, a totally kick-ass female!
@karathrowsjav
I appreciate people missing me being on this list, I truly do! But I set myself up purposefully to HAVE to throw the 64m standard if I wanted to go: I wanted to test my mettle, force myself to perform at Trials like I’d want to at Paris. And I didn’t, and that’s okay! ❤️❤️
You said it. So bummed and so proud simultaneously. I guess my destiny has always been to support my teammates at Olympic Games, and I humbly (and heartbreakingly for a little while longer) accept.
Day 2️⃣!
#USATFOutdoors
Been a huge fan of
@DanOBrien
for so long and so lucky to have him around my entire career with words of wisdom. What an honor to sit here!
The entertainment value of field events on regular szn broadcasts is not due to lack of interesting action or storylines. It’s production quality. Give me lots of angles, cameras on major players the whole time, athlete interaction, boom mics, etc. That takes 🤑, I get it.
Athlete to Official: How Kara Winger Leaves Her Mark
“Each little moment like filling in the marks on the sheet is such a minute example of each athlete’s journey – and I get to be a part of that."
🔗Read more:
📸: Lisa Allman
I am continually irked that every individual in every round of running gets introduced in-stadium and field event qualifying is just anonymously out there. This meet has been WONDERFULLY run (medal ceremonies outside the stadium is a positive game changer for fan engagement imo)
I have felt (especially this season) welcomed by and close to Tatsiana even though we have a language barrier. Always so fun to be with her giant talent and humor on the runway, especially tonight in her country 🥰
Kara Winger (
@karathrowsjav
) snatches victory from Tatsiana Khaladovich in the sixth round of the javelin.
There are no hard feelings on Team Europe though,
@usatf
! 😊
So, this coachable, enthusiastic, energetic dreamer of an athlete with fantastic supportive parents has basically made my career. She dressed up as me for Halloween, and then yesterday I had the absolute privilege of being her Christmas present!! Is this real life?
@usatf
When (Jamie and Russ and) I write a book about javelin training/strength & conditioning/technique, I promise not to compare javelin to throwing a baseball or softball. Except if we describe how different all of the angles are. 😅
Some say why would you retire if you setting PR’s & breaking records? Some (I) say I couldn’t think of a better way to go out 🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥 congrats
@karathrowsjav
#AmericanRecord
🐐
I’m hosting an indoor
#javelin
training webinar in a week (12/20 at 7pmMt)! I spent at least 75% of my career training indoors for large portions of each year. No matter what space or equipment you have, you can make great strides inside. Register for $20:
I battled today! With old habits vs. new technique. But ultimately figured out a 61.98m to start 2018. 😃🎉🤪
#javelin
#speerwerf
#halleschewerfertage
Thanks to Jamie Myers and Dana Lyon for sticking with me on this Javelin journey!
And World silver
@karathrowsjav
pulled a SB of 64.68 at her second, her best throw since 2019, to enjoy a comfortable win in the women's JT at the NACAC Championships
Have told airline representatives ~8 times now that those are javelins, not pole vaults. Last time traveling internationally with them, so fitting that there would be this many questions 😃. 🤞🤞always! See you soon, Europe 🥰
I keep talking to people about getting elected to carry the 🇺🇸 flag in Tokyo, the way current and former teammates showed up for me in the Twitterverse, and getting full-body shakes telling my fellow athletes thank you, but I still don’t have words for how cool that all was. 😭
So happy for Annette Echikunwoke🇺🇸🥈
Many people didn't have her making the team. Goes on to win the trials ands takes silver on the biggest stage becoming the first American woman win a hammer medal🫡
This is maybe the most coherent I’ve been about all the reasons “why not?” Have a listen if you like. There are so many. But the biggest one is that it’s always worth it in life just to try. Just try your best 🤷♀️😌
Arshad Nadeem’s emotion 🥰😭🥹🥰 AND SERIES omg but if you didn’t see him coming you haven’t been paying attention to men’s javelin that’s amazing amazing amazing
1976 Olympic Javelin Champ Miklos Nemeth🇭🇺 is many years retired but his javelin continues to dominate.
Nemeth founded Javel-Inn Ltd. in 1987 to create a better javelin that stands out by its multi-colored look.
Since then, top throwers have been winning medals with Nemeth's.
Next to hometown hero Ryan, the loudest support for a shotputter tonight was for Roger Steen. I’ve met more Roger Steen fans in more places guys. It’s amazing and I know it will carry him. Night of a huge comp is so hard when you don’t make it, but to have those people is 💯
I am THRILLED with this result for me and for my friends tonight! 3 days shy of 9 months post-op. Cannot say thank you enough to Kelcie Wittman, Jamie Myers, and Dana Lyon.
Maggie Malone goes from strength to strength as she reached a substantial PB of 63.81 in round four to clinch the win ahead of
@arince
at 61.64 (SB) for runner-up and Liz Gleadle at 61.41 (opener), with
@karathrowsjav
fourth at 60.97 (opener), in the women's JT in Tucson.
𝐁𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 💛🖤
Great to have 4x Olympian & Purdue Hall of Famer Kara (Patterson) Winger back on campus!
Thanks to Kara for speaking with the team about her amazing career, and sharing her World Championships 🥈 medal with us!
#BoilerUp
🚂
Trained here yesterday 🥲🥰 Gonna throw here tomorrow (for the first and last time ever, off the runway that didn’t exist when I went to school there) 🤩🥳 Last season nostalgia things 🙃😌
Video of 60.38m (4th round) last night, 1cm further than my opening throw and not quite enough to make the “final” of my 3rd IAAF Continental Cup, but good for 3rd place and a healthy disappointment level moving toward 2019/2020/2021 after moments of greatness this year!
🚨
#javelin
clinic🚨I have, for years, wanted to coach coaches in an effort to further javelin understanding in the U.S. Athletes, bring your coaches! Coaches, get here!
📣I’ve decided to throw
#javelin
again (FOR JUST ONE DAY) at my CSU Clinic in two weeks!! Come see how much I’ve retained (did some drills yesterday and I’m SORE 😌), and learn from classroom and practical sessions, from Russ and I!
Ending her career how all throwers dream, final attempt, world championship, first medal ever!!!!!! Couldn’t happen to a greater person
@karathrowsjav
🥹🥹🔥🔥🔥
I am once again asking you to send my
#javelin
clinic registration info to a coach who has expressed the desire to learn the event better. You may also send it to a coach who YOU think needs to learn it better. You don’t have to tell them which 🤓
.
@USTFCCCA
I’m hosting a
#javelin
clinic primarily for coaches at Colorado State University at the end of July! Would love to help push NCAA jav even further by helping already-great throws coaches see that there IS a lot of crossover between events. 🤠
.
@karathrowsjav
is going out as the first American woman to win a world championship medal in the javelin. 🇺🇸
The four-time Olympian and Team USA flag bearer had a storybook finish to her career at the
#WorldAthleticsChamps
.
Thank you, Kara 🙌
.
@TrackTownUSA
W Hammer 🧠💥 I am SICK for Janee’ and Brooke. DEVASTATED for Rachel (because it appears Erin has the Rankings 💯). But it just doesn’t get old seeing people rise. Annette said I WILL NOT MISS ANOTHER OLYMPICS. And D? Possible 🥇
#trackfieldtrials24
Sports that get the most coverage are mostly team sports with long game play. The “fast action” parts of those sports are individual plays, not the hours spent showing the games. Exactly like our sport. What needs to happen in track AND FIELD coverage is (thread) ⬇️
I'm often asked how I would improve track & field. Here it is.
Allow me to first explain the problem:
If you were to design a sport for success in TODAY���s sports market, it would look nothing like today's track. Track must be reimagined for TODAY’s sport & entertainment market.