Vadims Vasiļevskis

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Olympic medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for  Latvia
Silver	Athens 2004	Javelin

[edit] Biography

Vadims Vasiļevskis (born January 5, 1982, Riga) is a Latvian athlete, a silver medalist of 2004 Summer Olympics in javelin throw. Vasiļevskis achieved his best result of 90.73m on July 22, 2007 in Tallinn, Estonia, becoming the 10th longest javelin thrower of all times.

Vasiļevskis was the biggest surprise among Latvia's medal winners in 2004 Olympics. Latvia had three competitors in javelin throw: Vasiļevskis, Ēriks Rags and Voldemārs Lūsis, with Vasiļevskis being the youngest and the least known of the three. In Olympics, Vasiļevskis was the best of the three, throwing for 84.95 m, two and a half meters further than his previous personal record and winning a silver medal.

He finished 4th in the javelin final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg

[edit] Personal bests by year

• 600g
  • 55.56m (1997)
  • 69.40m (1998)
• 700g
  • 60.65m (1998)
  • 74.06m (1999)
• 800g
  • 63.82m (1999)
  • 73.07m (2000)
  • 73.25m (2001)
  • 81.92m (2002)
  • 76.81m (2003)
  • 84.95m (2004)
  • 81.30m (2005)
  • 90.43m (2006)
  • 90.73m (2007)

[edit] External links

• IAAF profile for Vadims Vasilevskis