Club throw
The club throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a wooden club. The event is one of the four throwing events, along with discus, javelin and shot put of the Summer Paralympics. It is the Paralympic equivalent of the hammer throw.[1] The club throw was introduced for both men and women at the first Summer Paralympic Games in 1960. It was dropped from the women's programme from the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona but was reinstated for London 2012.
Sport rules
Like other throwing events, the competition is decided by who can throw the club the farthest, though when the event is contested by athletes of different disability classifications, such as the Paralympics, the result is decided by a points score using the Raza Points System which considers athletes' relative levels of disability. The club for men and women weighs a minimum of 397 grams (14.0 oz) and is normally made from wood with a metal base.[2] The athlete sits in a frame in a throwing area which is within a marked circle between 2.135 and 2.50 metres (7 ft 0 in and 8 ft 2 in) in diameter. The frame is common for each competitor and is rigid.[2] The sport is contested at the Paralympics by athletes in the F31, F32 and F51 classes.
Records
As of 2015[update] the world record for the men's club in the 32 class is held by Vladislav Frolov, who threw 35.94 metres (117 ft 11 in) at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar on 26 October.[3] The men's record in the 51 class is held by Zeljko Dimitrijevic, who recorded a distance of 26.88 metres (88 ft 2 in) in London at the Summer Paralympics on 31 August 2012.[4]
As of 2015[update] the world record for the women's club in the 32 class is held by Maroua Ibrahmi, who threw 24.15 metres (79 ft 3 in) in Lyon, France on 24 July 2013. The women's record in the 51 class is held by America's Rachael Morrison, who recorded a distance of 21.90 metres (71 ft 10 in) at Olomouc in the Czech Republic on 5 July 2014.[5]
Paralympics
Men
| Games | Location | Open to | Gold | Class | Distance (points) |
Silver | Class | Distance (points) |
Bronze | Class | Distance (points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | New York, United States | 1A |  Bart Dodson (USA) |
1A | 23.54 |  Franicsco de las Fuentes (MEX) |
1A | 21.44 | S. Wilkins (USA) |
1A | 21.12 |
| 1988 | Seoul, South Korea | 1A |  Edund Weber (FRG) |
1A | 23.44 |  Jose Danile Haylan (ARG) |
1A | 18.28 |  Paolo D'Agostini (ITA) |
1A | 17.50 |
| 1992 | Barcelona, Spain | C6 |  Dae Kwan Kim (KOR) |
C6 | 51.58 WR |  Keith Gardner (GBR) |
C6 | 43.78 |  S. Da Costa Neto (BRA) |
C6 | 43.50 |
| 1996 | Atlanta, United States | F50 | Stephen Miller (GBR) |
F50 | 25.84 WR | James Richardson (GBR) |
F50 | 22.75 | Aaron Little (USA) |
F50 | 20.65 |
| 2000 | Sydney, Australia | F51 | Stephen Miller (GBR) |
F51 | 27.74 |  Takefumi Anryo (JPN) |
F51 | 26.88 |  Ahmed Kamal (BRN) |
F51 | 26.08 |
| 2004 | Athens, Greece | F32/F51 | Stephen Miller (GBR) |
F32 | 33.53 (1133) |
 Radim Beles (CZE) |
F51 | 25.44 (993) |
 Karim Betina (ALG) |
F32 | 29.17 (986) |
| 2008 | Beijing, China | F32/F51 |  Mourad Idoudi (TUN) |
F32 | 35.77 (1125) WR |
Stephen Miller (GBR) |
F32 | 34.37 (1081) |
Jan Vanek (CZE) |
F51 | 25.29 (1063) |
| 2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | F32 |  Maciej Sochal (POL) |
F32 | 33.91 |  Athanasios Konstantinidis (GRE) |
F32 | 33.69 | Stephen Miller (GBR) |
F32 | 31.93 |
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | F51 |  Zeljko Dimitrijevic (SRB) |
F51 | 29.96 WR | Milos Mitic (SRB) |
F51 | 26.84 |  Marian Kureja (SVK) |
F51 | 26.82 |
Women
| Games | Location | Open to | Gold | Class | Distance (points) | Silver | Class | Distance (points) | Bronze | Class | Distance (points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Rome, Italy | A | Maria Scutti (ITA) |
A | 19.10 | Anna Maria Galimberti (ITA) |
A | 17.82 |  Manette Berger-Waldenegg (AUT) |
A | 17.32 |
| 1960 | Rome, Italy | B | Maria Scutti (ITA) |
B | 20.07 |  Marlene Muhlendyck (FRG) |
B | 19.42 | Anna Maria Galimberti (ITA) |
B | 19.11 |
| 1960 | Rome, Italy | C | Zander (FRG) |
C | 26.62 |  Daphne Ceeney (AUS) |
C | 21.11 | Maria Scutti (ITA) |
C | 20.21 |
| 2012 | London, United Kingdom | F31/32/51 | Maroua Ibrahmi (TUN) |
F32 | 23.43 WR | Mounia Gasmi (ALG) |
F32 | 22.51 | Gemma Prescott (GBR) |
F32 | 20.50 |
See also
References
- ^ "Club throw". channel4.com. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ a b "IPC Athletics Rules and Regulations,". IPC. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ "Results - Men's Club Throw F32 Final". IPC. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "Men's Club Throw". IPC. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "Results - Women's Club Throw F51 Final". IPC. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.