Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Name Johannes Vetter Club SV Schlau.Com Saar 05 | Sport Track and field Weight 105 kg (231 lb) | |
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Coached by Katarina WunscheSteffen KrugerBoris Obergfoll | ||
Andreas hofmann 86 14m johannes vetter 80 86 qualification beijing world championships 2015
Johannes Vetter ( [joˈhanəs ˈfɛtɐ]; born 26 March 1993) is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is a World Champion, having won gold in 2017. His personal best of 94.44 m is the German record. It also ranks him second on the overall list. He currently trains under Boris Obergföll and is a member of LG Offenburg's track and field squad. He was previously with SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken and Dresdner SC.
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- Andreas hofmann 86 14m johannes vetter 80 86 qualification beijing world championships 2015
- Johannes vetter 89 35m german championships 2017 hd
- Biography
- References
Johannes vetter 89 35m german championships 2017 hd
Biography
Vetter was born and raised in Dresden. Upon receiving his Abitur, he joined the Landespolizei Sachsen (Saxony State Police) and has been a Sportsoldat (Sport Soldier) since September 2014. He has a tattoo of an Ancient Greek javelin thrower on his back.
In 2011, Vetter competed in the European Junior Championships. He made it through the qualifying round with a personal best 71.60 m throw. He then finished 12th in the final with a throw of 65.87 m. Zigismunds Sirmais won the event with a throw of 81.53 m.
In July 2015, Vetter took part in the European U23 Championships. He finished fourth, throwing the javelin 79.78 m. Kacper Oleszczuk won gold with a throw of 82.29 m. In August 2015, he competed in the IAAF World Championships. He finished seventh with a throw of 83.79 m. Julius Yego won the competition with a throw of 92.72 m.
Vetter competed for Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics, along with Julian Weber and eventual gold medalist Thomas Röhler. Leading up to his maiden Olympics, Vetter unleashed the javelin with a personal best of 88.23 m to top the field and attain the Olympic entry standard (83.00 m) by a five-centimetre margin at the Kuortane Games in Finland. Coming to the final with the second best throw at 85.96 m from the qualifying stage, Vetter opened the competition with an 85.32 m throw on his first attempt to seize an early lead, but Röhler, along with 2015 World Champion Julius Yego of Kenya and defending Olympic Champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago overtook him for the medal positions. Unable to improve his mark in the remaining attempts, Vetter finished in fourth place, outside the podium by just six centimetres. Less than a month after his disappointment at the Olympics, Vetter finished first in a world-class field at the 2016 ISTAF Berlin, throwing a personal best of 89.57 m.
In July 2017, he won the German Championship with a throw of 89.35 m. This was his first victory in the German Championship (he finished fifth in 2014, second in 2015 and fourth in 2016). Two days later, he recorded a 90.75 m, 91.06 m, 93.06 m and a personal best 94.44 m at the 2017 Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern. The 94.44 m throw was also a German record, besting Röhler's 93.90 m throw from May 2017. In August 2017, he won gold at the IAAF World Championships in London with a throw of 89.89 m. Vetter finished his season at the 2017 ISTAF Berlin, where he won gold with a 89.85 m throw, nearly four metres ahead of second place Röhler.