Nickname(s) Mitch Country Australia Nationality Australia Sport Athletics | Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Name Kathryn Mitchell Weight 72 kg (159 lb) | |
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Kathryn Mitchell (born 10 July 1982) is an Australian athletics competitor who specialises in the javelin throw. She finished first at the 2008 National Championships. She finished second at the 2012 National Championships. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics after making an Olympic A-Qualifying throw in Germany. She also took part in the Rio Olympics.
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Personal
Nicknamed Mitch, Mitchell was born on 10 July 1982 in Hamilton, Victoria. She calls Casterton her hometown but lives in Hawthorn, Victoria. She went to Casterton Primary School before going to high school at Casterton Secondary College and Ballarat High School. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Movement and is working on an advance degree in Nutritional Medicine. She is a fitness services instructor and health consultant.
Athletics
Mitchell competes in javelin. As a fourteen-year-old, she started in the sport but did not begin to take the sport seriously until she was seventeen years old. She took up the sport after her sister borrowed a javelin from school to practice with it for a school event.
Mitchell was coached by Lindsay Burgoyne in high school. At the start of high school, she broke the school record by 4 metres (13 ft). She was coached by Eric Hollingsworth from 2003 to 2009. Uwe Hohn became her coach in 2010 and was her coach as of July 2012. She trains at Olympic Park in Melbourne and has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport. She is a member of the Eureka Athletics Club.
In 2006, Mitchell represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games, where she made the finals in the javelin, finishing sixth overall. She finished first at the 2008 National Championships in Melbourne, Australia. In 2010, she set a Victorian state record in the javelin. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, she finished fifth. Prior to competing in India, she spent four weeks training in Germany. She finished second at the 2011 National Championships in Melbourne, Australia. In January 2012, she competed at an Athletics Victoria inter-club meet, where she made a throw of 62.51 metres (205.1 ft). While this distance would have qualified her for Olympics, the nature of the meet precluded it from counting. She finished second at the 2012 National Championships in Melbourne, Australia with a throw of 59.23 metres (194.3 ft), short of the Olympic A-Qualifying distance of 61 metres (200 ft). She finished third at the 2012 Ostrava Golden Spike in Ostrava, Czech Republic. At the event, she threw a personal best throw of 64.34 metres (211.1 ft). In April, she finished second at the 2012 St. Wendel World Class Meeting in Germany. She was selected to represent Australia in the javelin event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she qualified for the final in the women's javelin. Before departing for London, she participated in a Germany-based training camp. At the Rio Summer Olympics in 2016, she placed 6th in the javelin throw final, with an effort of 64.36m.
She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, finishing fourth, with a best throw 36 cm less than that of bronze medal winning compatriot Kelsey-Lee Roberts.
