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Offenburg (dpa / lsw) - Three months before the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the former javelin world champion Johannes Vetter achieved a world best of the year.
The 28-year-old threw 91.5 meters during training in Offenburg on Saturday, making it the first athlete to break the 90-meter mark this year, as the European Athletics Association announced.
«91.50 meters!
The taste of a new world best of the year, »wrote Vetter on Twitter to a picture that shows him with a beer in hand in an ice basin.
The 2017 world champion is considered a promising candidate for a medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this year.
The Offenburg had thrown the second best distance ever achieved in September 2020 with 97.76 meters.
At that time he missed the world record of the Czech Jan Zelezny by only 72 centimeters.
Vetter is aiming for the gold medal in Tokyo.
"Then my goal will be Olympic victory, that is very clearly defined," he said at the end of last year.
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