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Clips of Omar (0)

Here are the clips of Omar from The Cairo Club Championships. Two throws are none reverse warm up throws and two are competition throws.

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Great training camp for Märt (0)

Märt Israel just left Växjö after a two week training camp. It was a good camp and Märt worked really hard.

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Omar throws well in Cairo (0)

Omar El Ghazaly competed in his first meet this year in Cairo two days ago and did really well.

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Fun competition (0)

Märt Israel and the best javelin thrower in Sweden, Magnus Arvidsson are good friends. Magnus lives here in Växjö and trains with the legendary coach Jonas Mellblom.

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Kim Danish Champion (0)

Kim Christensen won the Danish Championships today in Skive, Denmark with a throw of 19.23m.

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Märt is training well in Tipshallen (0)

Märt Israel did his second session inside the big training hall in Växjö on Friday. In between we do some sessions in the net also. Märt is doing lots of drills and technical exercises.

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Niklas Swedish Champion (0)

Niklas Arrhenius had a great meet today in shot put at the Swedish Championships in Stockholm. Niklas won the meet and put the shot 18.90m.

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Good atmosphere in the weight room (0)

Niklas, Nick, Kim and Märt have been training well here for the last few days. Two days ago they all lifted together and it was a good session for everybody.

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A great session for the Danes (0)

The Danish Duo had their best technical session of this indoor season today.

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Niklas and Märt throw in Tipshallen (0)

It does not happen every day that Discus Throwers can throw inside except then in the net in most cases.

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The guys are here now (0)

Niklas Arrhenius flew in from Utah, USA. Märt Israel flew in from Tallinn, Estonia. Nick Petersen took the train from Roskilde, Denmark and Kim Christensen drove his car from Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Shot Putters compete in Sparta Indoor (0)

Yesterday, Kim, Nick and Raigo had a meet in Copenhagen and did ok. Raigo won the Shot Put with a indoor best of the year 18.99m. Kim was second also with year best result of 18.94m. Nick did another indoor PR of 18.36m.

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Niklas started up in USA (0)

Niklas Arrhenius put the shot 18.12m in a meet in Ogden, USA last night.

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Great session for Kim today in Copenhagen (0)

Kim Christensen did one of his best sessions ever today in Copenhagen with my associate coach Carsten Bomme.

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Axel training in the snow (0)

Axel Härstedt that I worked with for one year in 2009 is doing well.

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Good news about travelling to Växjö (0)

A great change to the better is about to take place in relation to air transport to Växjö. Småland Airport and Landvetter Airport in Göteborg will start a new cooperation in September this year.

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Shot Putters compete (0)

Niklas Arrhenius will start his comeback as a rotational shot putter tomorrow. He will then compete in Utah against his brother Leif as well as some other throwers.

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A good week in Great Britain (1)

Sometimes I get the opportunity to go to other countries and do lectures, clinics, conferences, workshops etc. Last week was one of these and I really enjoyed it.

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Navdeep forced to operate (1)

It was a strange week for Nav last week when I was over there and we were going to train together during that week as I was doing a clinic with Shaun Pickering anyway in England.

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Kim and Nick open up their season (0)

Kim Christensen and Nick Petersen, “the Danish Duo” opened up their indoors season in Göteborg, Sweden today.

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Training camp in Potchefstroom is over (1)

Another training camp is coming to an end. We were unlucky again with the weather for one week, but otherwise it has been good.

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Gerd throws far (0)

Gerd Kanter had his best discus session this morning on this camp. Technique was better and the discus was flying very far.

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Nick gets his goal (1)

Nick Petersen has been doing really well on this camp in the weightroom. PR‘s in Squats, Deadlift, Bench Press etc.

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Good session for Omar (2)

Omar El Ghazaly is throwing better and better and farther and farther. The technique is better but still far from being good. The discus is flying and flying and it goes far. Where will it end, hopefully beyond 70m sooner than later.

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Navdeep is getting better (0)

Navdeep Dhaliwal is working hard to get better in the discus throw. For the last few days she has done good PR’s in different exercises.

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Niklas is throwing better (0)

Niklas Arrhenius is doing well after his foot injury and has now been throwing shot and discus for some weeks with full turn.

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Good throwing session for Shot Putters (0)

The Danes, Kim, Nick and Lasse had a good session this morning. Nick was working on technique and tried hard to control his power and get feeling for it instead of just powering it out there. It worked good. Nick will never lack power, he just needs to control it.

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Mr. Deadlift (0)

Nick Petersen, “The Beast” loves one exercise and that is the deadlift.

To throw far in shot put you really do not need to lift to heavy in deadlift as we use it mostly just to get stronger in the back. But, twice a year Nick gets the opportunity to go for it if he can hold his technique within the frame.

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Light Weight (3)

Gerd did one of his heavy sessions today on this camp. But it ended up being very light. Here you see how heavy weights can look very light. Gerd is right on track in the weightroom in relation to the period we are in.

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Good news from Märt (0)

Märt Israel that is recovering after his foot injury is doing really good. In the middle of January he got a green light from his doctor and physical therapist to start to lift and try to throw again.

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Kim is lifting heavy (0)

Kim Christensen has really gotten stronger and bigger for the last few weeks. He needed that as the big 20m are waiting on him and I do not know many small weak guys that have put the shot over 20m.

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Very good throwing for Gerd (0)

Gerd Kanter had a good session today. The conditions were very tough as there was a big left, tail wind that shifted so it was hard to deal with. Gerd had some very good throws and most of them were around 66m.

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Slam session today (0)

When we throw far in this group we call it Slam Sessions. Navdeep tried today to do it but was tired and it did not worked out even if she had a good technique. She eneded up with only 48m but there is much there on a good day.

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Happy Birthday Indrek (0)

The greatest Physio Thearapist on Earth Indrek Tustit had a birthday today. It was celebrated with a cake that Gerd and Liina fixed.

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Omar gets his best session (0)

Omar El Ghazaly did a great training session this morning. We worked in the sprint as well the finish in his throw and it worked out better than ever.

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Stronger than life (1)

Saturday Anders told me he felt like doing some deadlifts and I thought it might be wise not to do them from the floor but instead do them from right below the knee.

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The Group (1)

Yesterday we had a good day agin even if it rained. We got in a very good session with Gerd in the morning with 2.5kg Denfi Tool. 73.19m was the distance with none reverse, it is as far as he has ever thrown. Then when he started to throw with reverse he did not hit it as well and lacked some energy. Still a great session for Gerd.

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Great day for Navdeep again (0)

Navdeep Dhaliwal had her best day today at the camp here in S-Africa. Today she threw the Denfi Tool better than ever before and also farther.

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Gerd and Omar get in a good session (0)

In between the rain we got in a good session today with the discus throwers. Shot putters were off and went on a safari.

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Navdeep is working hard (0)

Navdeep Dhaliwal is doing good here at the training camp. During the winter she has gotten stronger and her technique in the discus is getting better.

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Danes getting stronger (0)

Kim Christensen and Nick Petersen are getting better in every way on this camp. Kim has thrown 19.77m so far and Nick 18.46m. Technique is getting better also after lot of drills in relation to that we have been hving lot of rain.

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Gerd gets his best Discus session so far (0)

Gerd Kanter threw the discus well yesterday. In between the rain we got in a session and Gerd threw well. Technically it was ok and feeling was very good. We did not measure it but the distance was good.

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Raigo Toompuu opens up his indoor season (0)

Raigo Toompuu put the shot 18.96m in his forst indoor meet last night in Tallinn, Estonia.  This start for Raigo is ok in relation to his preparation. He has had some problems with his shoulder this fall but is getting better.

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Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain (0)

Yesterday it rained from eight in the morning until five in the afternoon here in Potchefstroom. Kim and Nick had to skip their throwing practice but the others were resting so it did not affect us too much.

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Great day today at training camp (0)

We had a great day today in Potchefstroom. The sun was shining as always and Navdeep started by throwing her Denfi Tool of 1.5kg for the first time outside.

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Omar is healthy and training well (0)

Omar El Ghazaly has been throwing really well here in Potchefstroom so far. Technique is getting better even there is still some room for improvement. 

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Great news from Niklas in USA (0)

To begin with, Niklas and his wife Tiffany got their second child last week. The kid came into this world way to early but seems to be doing well. Big congratualtions to you guys. 

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Kim throws really well in Potchefstroom (1)

Kim Christensen has been doing really well since we got here some days ago. We are done with 3 days of training and Kim has been throwing the shot better than in a long time. He has actually not thrown that well since early spring in 2009.

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Training camp in Potchefstroom (0)

Now we are in Potchefstroom in S-Africa on a training camp. We came here two days ago, me, Kim, Nick, Gerd, Omar and Indrek. Nav is coming tomorrow. Niklas and Märt will not come.

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Danish Athletes on a Training Camp (0)

Nine Danish athletes have been on a training camp in Växjö, Sweden for the last few days. It is Coach Carsten Bomme from the Copenhagen Club, Sparta that is here with his athletes. Carsten is also the National Throwing Coach in Denmark.

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Indrek and his 130kg Power Clean (0)

Indrek Tustit the physio therapist that has been working with Gerd Kanter for the last three years as well as treating and helping the other athletes in the group trains pretty hard himself. He is a former 400hurdle guy but has been lifting with Gerd for the last few years.

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Niklas throwing again (0)

Niklas Arrhenius is throwing again after his foot injury. Here are some film clips since Christmas training. It is good to see him throw again.

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Training with FIG juniors (1)

Just before Christmas vacation I did one session with three junior athletes from FIG (Athletic High School) in Växjö.

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Team Danmark supports Kim (0)

Kim Christensen is one of three athletes that Team Danmark,  the governing body of sports in Denmark supports extra much for the Olympc Games in London i 2012.

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Omar had a good training camp in Pretoria (0)

Omar El Ghazaly came home to Cairo from Pretoria in RSA four days ago. He had been there training for three weeks.

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Foot problems about to be solved for Märt and Niklas (0)

Märt Israel as well Niklas Arrhenius have been struggling with different foot problems for a while.

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Nick is doing very well (0)

Nick Petersen is doing really well right now after his huge success year in 2009. His training is going by plan and his training camp here in Växjö last week was good.

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We had a good training camp (0)

The first training camp for 2010 season is over for the Global Throwing Group. It was in Växjö, Sweden for the last two weeks. Participants were Gerd Kanter, Kim Christensen, Nick Petersen, Priidu Niit and Meigo Tammsaar as well as Indrek Tustit.

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Märt is getting better (0)

Märt Israel got his cast taken off his foot today in Finland. It looks like the operation was successful and now he has a rehab process to follow.

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Good visit from Team Danmark (0)

Thue Kvorning, a physical training expert from Team Danmark came to our training camp in Växjö on Monday and stayed until last night. 

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Meigo and Priidu join the group in Växjö (0)

Since Thursday all athletes that were supposed to come to this camp are here training together. The young duo from Estonia Meigo Tammsaar and Priidu Niit joined Gerd, Kim and Nick as well as Indrek Tustit came also.

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Training camp in Växjö (0)

Gerd Kanter, Kim Christensen and Nick Petersen are on the first planned training camp for the group for 2010 in Växjö, Sweden.

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Vésteinn, Gerd and Priidu awarded in Estonia. (0)

Estonian Athletic Association honored the best athletes in 2009.

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Indoor Throwing Carnival in Växjö (0)

The WRC indoor meet in 2009 was a big success for Gerd Kanter as well as the local club IFK Växjö, Tipshallen and the city of Växjö. Now, it has been decided that it will be arranged again on the 27/3 2010, events will be:

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Omar to Pretoria in South Africa (0)

Omar El Ghazaly went to Pretoria in South Africa two days ago. He will stay there for three weeks training. Pretoria is the place we used to go to on training camps before usually in January.

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Great news from Navdeep (1)

Navdeep Dhaliwal is doing really well so far in her winter training. She is getting stronger and her technique and throwing strength is developeing in a very positive way.

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Märt operated in Finland (0)

Märt Israel was operated in his ankle two days ago in Finland. Märt broke both of his ankles when young and has been struggling with them since.

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Niklas will double up in 2010 (0)

Niklas Arrhenius will be throwing Discus and Shot in 2010. Very few throwers have the ability to throw both events on a very high level but Niklas does.

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Meigo and Priidu cooperation for the future (0)

A cooperation between Global Throwing Coaching & Management and the Estonian Federation has started in the coaching of Meigo Tammsaar and Priidu Niit.

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Global Throwing Group 2010 (1)

 

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Omar Finishes up his Long Season (0)

Omar El Ghazaly had two meets at the end of September and beginning of October. The 6th edition of Francophone Games was the first meet in Lebanon and Omar threw the Discus 61.01m and won the Gold Medal. 

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ERGO Conference (0)

The second World ERGO Discus Conference was held in Tallinn on the 15-16 September 2009. There were not as many participants at the conference this year as last year but still very interesting topics were precented. 

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A tribute to Joachim B. Olsen (2)

Recently one of the best Shot Putter ever retired, the ‘’The Danish Dynamite’’ Joachim B. Olsen. 

 

 

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Training Session at Autentis Sports School in Tallinn (0)

During the visit in Tallinn last week Aivo Normak the Estonian Head Coach as well as Ants Kiisa the Throwing Coach asked me to do a physical training session with the best and most talented throwers in Estonia precently going to this school. Here are some pictures from this session. 

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Final meets (1)

Gerd Kanter won the ERGO meet that was his last meet for 2009. Very positive for Gerd. 66.85m is not that far but was enough to beat everybody that was there and there was pretty much the whole world elite group of discus throwers. 

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Nick throws well again in Denmark (0)

The last meet for the Danish Duo was in Denmark yesterday, the Danish Club Cup. Nick Petersen put the shot 18.50m that is his third best result of the year.

 

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Another Tough Day in Thessaloniki (0)

Gerd Kanter 5^th, Omar El Ghazaly 7^th and Märt Israel 8th. That was under what we had expected at the WAF in Greece. 

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Gerd, Märt and Omar in WAF (0)

Three of eight participants in the WAF in Thessaloniki in Greece next week are not bad. Gerd, Märt and Omar all made the final. Gerd is leading the pack with 50 points, Märt is seventh with 24 points and Omar got the Wild Card this year with 23 points and eighth place. 

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Gerd, Axel and Navdeep throw well in Helsingborg (0)

Lefty Open, another throwing meet during our camp in Helsingborg was organized today, actually for Nav and she made the most out of it. After a little warmup yesterday she really tried hard today and finally got decent conditions even if it could have been better. 

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Nick throws well in Esbjerg (0)

Nick Petersen put the Shot 18.68m yesterday in his last meet as a Junior, in the under 23 class at the Danish Championships. That is his second best throw this year and same result as his PR last year. 

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World Record Challenge 2009, Helsingborg (0)

Gerd Kanter won the third WRC held in Helsingborg, Sweden today. Gerd‘s winning throw measured up to 68.97m. A good result even if he did not really hit it today. Gerd has been struggling since the WC in Berlin and the feeling is so and so right now, but still another good meet and a good win. Gerd threw 70.32m last year in this meet but 68.07m in 2007.  

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World Record Challenge and Lefty Open (0)

WRC will be held at Heden Sports Arena in Helsingborg, Sweden on Saturday 5. September. 

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Nick throws well at the Danish Championships (0)

Nick Petersen did his best competition since his breakthrough in Kaunas at the ECU23 at the Danish Championships last week. 

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The season is coming to an end (0)

As usually at this time of the year the season is coming to an end and some of the group members have already finished their season. 

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Axel is doing well (0)

Axel Härstedt has been doing well lately and is ready for a new PR in Discus on a good day. He competed in the meet between Sweden and Finland last week and did 54.36m. 

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Gerd third and Omar ninth (1)

The final at the WC in Berlin ended up being a tough camp for Gerd and Omar. After a very good feeling on the throwing field Gerd ended up only throwing 66.88m and ended up in third place.

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Gerd and Omar through to final, Märt hurt (1)

Gerd Kanter only needed one throw to make the line in the qualification round here at the WC in Berlin. Gerd threw 66.73m in the firts round that was a great first throw.

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Gerd, Omar and Märt are ready for Berlin (1)

Gerd Kanter, Omar El Ghazaly and Märt Israel have been here in Cottbus, Germany since 4^th of August on a Pre Camp before the Berlin WC. Gerd and Indrek will leave tomorrow for Berlin but Omar and Märt will leave with me on Sunday.

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Two Olympic Champions Meet (0)

Gerd Kanter and Rolf Danneberg the Olympic Champion from Los Angeles in 1984, met for the first time in Cottbus, Germany this weekend. 

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Nav is training hard in Cottbus (0)

Navdeep Dhaliwal has been here for a week on a training camp with the big boys. She is the only member of the group that is not going to the WC in Berlin that has been here. She will leave today after a great camp. 

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Meet in Cottbus (0)

Last night Märt and Omar competed in Cottbus, Germany. Märt did 61.94m and Omar 60.96m. Not any big results but still some positive things.

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Copenhagen Games (0)

Kim and Nick competed in the Copenhagen Games and did ok. Kim is still struggling with the feeling and did 18.60m. That is way under his potential, but Kim is positive and ready to come back with better results soon. 

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Good in Tallinn (1)

Gerd won the Estonian Championships with a throw of 68.08m. It is very good for Gerd and right on track. Now he has some weeks before the WC in Berlin to relax and get faster and better to throw far there so this results this weekend was very good. 

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Axel throws well, Niklas pulls out (0)

Axel Härstedt competed well in the Swedish Championships this weekend. He threw 54.36m and got fourth place. We were hoping for 55+ but this time it was a little less. After his back strain last week Axel should be happy with this performance. 

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Ups and downs in Kose (0)

Six members of the group competed in Kose, Estonia today.
Raigo and Nick started the day in the Shot Put. Raigo had a decent meet with a 19.09m throw. He could not follow up on a good practice he did during the week. But still over 19m and that keeps his average up. But Raigo can much more. 

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Märt and Kim in Barcelona (0)

Märt Israel and Kim Christensen competed in Barcelona last night and did ok. Märt had another good meet on 62.13m. He felt very good but did not really hit it. After three meets in a row over 63m Märt had to settle for 62m this time and a 6th place finish. 

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Estonian Juniors do great (0)

Priidu Niit and Meigo Tammsaar did really well in the European Junior Championships yesterday in Discus.
After throwing a PR of 58.43m in the qualification Meigo threw 58.18m in the final and got 8th place. 

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Tough in Karlstad (0)

Kim and Nick competed in Karlstad 22-23 July and had two meets. The first day they competed on the town square. A fun competition but results were so and so. Kim had 18.86m and did not hit the technique and Nick cought a stomach flu over night and did not have any energy. 

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Great performances in Rethymno (0)

Gerd Kanter threw 69.10m in Rethymno last night and Omar El Ghazaly 62.03m. Very good for both guys. Gerd won again and Omar got 4th place. 

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Omar and Märt throw really well in Zaragoza (0)

Omar El Ghazaly and Märt Israel competed last night in the IAAF meet in Zaragoza, Spain. Omar got 4th place with a throw of 64.68m and Märt got 5th with 63.54m. 

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Training camps in Sweden, Tallinn and Cottbus (0)

As the meet schedule for the different athletes did not fit the best to have a planned camp in Växjö from 20-30 July we reorganized things this way. 

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Nick with a breakthrough in Kaunas (2)

Nick Petersen threw a huge PR in the European Championships under 23 years of age today in Kaunas, Lithuania. 18.94m is the new mark and a SILVER medal. Who thought this could happen? I can tell you, he thought it himself and he talked about it before the meet. 

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Great meet in Luzern for Gerd and Märt (0)

Gerd Kanter won his 20th meet in a row last night in Luzern and threw the Discus 67.42m. His training partner Märt Israel was 3rd with a throw of 63.04m. 

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Kaunas European Championships Under 23. (0)

Results from shot put qualification. 

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Axel Throws a Personal Best (0)

Axel Härstedt competed in three meets in Helsingborg last week. The plan going there was to get a new PR as Axel did not improve last year. His PR was 56.14m since 2007. 

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Märt and Raigo fourth in University Games (0)

Märt Israel threw the Discus 63.35m and Raigo Toompuu 19.31m at the University Games last week. Both got fourth place. 

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Nick is ready (0)

Nick Petersen left for the ECU23 in Kaunas yesterday and will compete there tomorrow. The automatic qualification mark is 18.25m. 

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Great meet for Märt in Madrid (2)

Märt Israel got 4th place in the GP meet in Madrid last night. Even though the distance of 61.37m could be better then the competition for Märt was good. 

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Navdeep competes in Belgium (0)

Nav competed last night in Flanders Cup in Belgium. Nav had 48.01m that is a little under her level now as she was throwing over 50m in practice in our training camp many times last week. 

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Bottnaryd Meet, Sweden (0)

Bottnaryd is a little place in Småland in Sweden that actually puts on an International Throwing Meet every year. This year five athletes from our group competed. 

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Raigo throws his second best ever (0)

Raigo Toompuu competed in the same meet as Gerd last night in Kohila in Estonia. Raigo put the Shot 19.79m that is his second farthest ever.  

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Gerd with a fantastic throw in Kohila (0)

It does not happen every day that people throw over 70m in Discus, but Gerd Kanter threw twice last night over 70m and once over 71m and almost 72m.  

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Omar wins in Sollentuna (0)

Omar El Ghazaly won the FGP meet in Sollentuna,Sweden last night. Omar had 66.34m in good conditions and did his best meet ever.  

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Niklas has a little injury (0)

Niklas Arrhenius was supposed to come over to Europe and throw this weekend for Sweden in the European Team Championships.  

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Gerd throws well in Bergen and wins again (0)

Gerd Kanter threw a solid 67.00m to win the European Team Championships discus throw for his country, Estonia in Bergen, Norway today. 

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Nav throws again over 50m (0)

Navdeep Dhaliwal got second place in the Scottish Championships today and threw the discus 50.39m.  

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Raigo fourth in Bergen (0)

Raigo Toompuu and Kim Christensen competed in the European Team Championships today.

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Good Win for Gerd in Berlin (0)

Gerd Kanter won the IAAF Golden League meet in Berlin tonight. He follows his win in Bydgoszcz by winning again in Berlin.  

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Kim with a Great PR Throw in Aarhus (0)

Kim Christensen put the Shot 19.65m today in the Danish Cup Meet held in Aarhus, Denmark.  

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Nav Throws over 50m (0)

Navdeep Dhaliwal threw the Discus 50.51m yesterday in a meet in Cardiff, Great Britain.  

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Many Competitions this Weekend (0)

Gerd Kanter will throw in the IAAF Golden League in Berlin on Sunday against all the best Discus Throwers in the world. 

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Good Win For Gerd in Bydgoszcz (0)

Gerd Kanter and Märt Israel competed in a IAAF Gran Prix Meet in Bydgoszcz, Poland last night. 

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Raigo Toompuu wins in Göteborg (0)

Raigo Toompuu and Kim Christensen dominated the Shot Put competition last night in the Folksam Grand Prix Meet in Göteborg, Sweden.  

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Great Performances for the Estonian Junior Group (1)

The guys that were in Växjö, Sweden last week on a training camp competed today in Tallinn and that was interesting to see and follow. 

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Positive Meet for Märt in Poland (0)

Märt Israel did not throw far in Warsaw but got fourth place finish and valuable points in the hunt towards the WAF in September.  

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Märt to Compete in Warsaw (0)

Märt Israel left this morning here from Tallinn to compete in the IAAF GP meet in Warsaw tomorrow 07.06.2009.  

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Good meet in Tartu (0)

Gerd Kanter won the discus throw with a throw of 69.07m. He still felt out of power and a little tired but threw almost 70m in no wind and 14 degrees.  

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The Kanter Shoe (0)

Nike, one of Gerd’s sponsors has designed a special shoe for him with his name on it.  We congratulate Gerd on this. Here you see a picture of the shoe with a happy Olympic and World Champion.

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Another Great PR for Niklas (0)

Niklas Arrhenius did 245kg Front Squat last week and now here is a film on his new PR in Back Squat 302.5kg.  

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A Great Training Camp for the Estonian Junior Team (0)

From 26 May until 31 May eight Estonian Juniors stayed in Växjö, Sweden and trained with the help of two coaches from Estonia Ants Kiisa and Peeter Koorep as well as me and Jonas Mellblom gave some tips during the camp. 

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Good Results for the group (1)

For the last few days there have been lot of competitions. 

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Estonian Juniors in Växjö on a Training Camp (0)

Yesterday, an Estonian Junior Group of eight athletes arrived in Växjö to train for a week.  

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Another Great Win by Gerd (0)

 Gerd Kanter won another big meet today only three days after Rabat, he was tonight in Turnov.

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Great Training in USA for Niklas (0)

Well, Niklas Arrhenius had some advantage in relation to the rest of the group and did not need to deal with jet lag or travel tiredness after the training camp in San Diego as he lives in Utah, USA. 

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No meet for Nick in Halle (0)

Well, Kim Christensen had to cancel before the meet in Halle because if his elbow pain. And then after the warmup down in Halle Nick Petersen had to pull out of the competition before it started because of his hand pain. 

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Gerd wins in Rabat and Omar throws well (0)

Gerd Kanter won the GP meet in Rabat.  

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Meets this weekend (0)

Some of the group members are competing this weekend.

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Training camp in USA is over (0)

Well, the group is back home now after 30 days in California, USA. This trainingcamp was very good as usually, with lots of heavy weights and volume of throwing and some good meets. 

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Thanks to UCSD and our American and International Friends (0)

I want to thank Tony Salerno the Head Coach at UCSD to put on the meet for us today.

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Great Meet at UCSD in La Jolla Today (1)

 

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WRC at UCSD in La Jolla (1)

We have been twice training at La Jolla infield where the meet will be on Tuesday. It looks good and everything should be ready for the meet. 

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Nick throws a training PR (0)

Nick Petersen that has been training really hard here as usually put the shot 18.80m in practice today with good technique.  

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Märt gets his 135kg in Snatch (0)

Märt Israel loves the Snatch, just as Nick loves the Deadlift, Kim the Push Press etc. 

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No good at Occidental Invitational in L.A. (0)

Raigo, Kim and Nav competed today in Los Angeles. It did not go good. 

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Kim, Raigo and Navdeep to L.A. (0)

Oxidental Relays in Los Angeles is the next meet for some athletes in the group. This meet has been giving the Shot Putters good resaults for the last two years and this time Kim and Raigo will compete. 

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Great meet today for the group (0)

Results and videos from Chula Vista. 

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Märt Israel is throwing well. (0)

Märt Israel has been throwing really well in practice since the meet here last Tuesday . 

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WRC Chula Vista start lists (0)

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Press release (0)

Due to some uncertainties regarding the level of the Throwing Field at Salinas at World Record distances, it has not been possible to gain the necessary assurances of ratification by USATF and IAAF in case of a possible World Record throw.  

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Good Old Times (0)

Here is a great film of Shaun Pickering throwing his PR 20.45m. He said himself that there was so much more that could be done with his technique. 

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Raigo Toompuu stronger than ever (0)

Raigo has been doing exceptionally well in the weightroom lately. Last week I posted his 2x250kg Back Squat.  

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Gerd Kanter lifts heavy again. (0)

After last weeks PR of 241kg Front Squat and 180kg Power Clean it was time again to lift heavy yesterday for Gerd. 2x275kg as well as 1x290kg Back Squat is a new PR. Here it comes.
 

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The Man that loves the DEADLIFT (1)

Here are two filmclips of Nick Petersen doing deadlift, the lift he loves the most. Nick has done 250kg and 260kg so far here. Enjoy it. 

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Great meet for the guys at Chula Vista (0)

The Discus throwers competed in the Chula Vista meet today and Gerd threw 70.84m, Omar 65.18m, Niklas 65.00m and Märt 64.86m. 

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John Powell is an honorary guest today. (0)

The former World Record Holder in Discus, legendary John Powell will be an honorary guest at the meet today at Chula Vista. 

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Omar El-Ghazaly is training well. (0)

Omar El Ghazaly that surprised everybody in 2007 by getting 6th place at the World Championships had a tough year in 2008 with lots of injuries.  

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The Danish Duo had their best practice so far (0)

It was fun this morning with the Shot Putters. Raigo just had a technical session as he competed yesterday and did better.  

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Nav is getting better every day. (0)

Navdeep Dhaliwal is a British discus thrower that has been with us since this fall. Her best is 52.05m and she has not thrown a PR for 7 years. 

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Meet in Chula Vista on Tuesday. (0)

The Discus throwers will compete in their first meet here on this USA trip on Tuesday.  

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Niklas Arrhenius in great shape (0)

Niklas Arrhenius is in very good shape right now. 

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Raigo Toompuu opens up at La Jolla. (0)

Raigo Toompuu competed today at Triton Invitational at La Jolla in California. 

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Huge lifts for Gerd Kanter (0)

For the last few days Gerd Kanter has been maxing out in the weightroom as we usually do at this time of the year. 

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Things are going well in San Diego (0)

Our team is now in Chula Vista (San Diego), training at the Arco Olympic Training Center. This is the 6th year in a row that we are here. Training is going well for most of the group. 

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Gerd Kanter breaks the World Indoor Record. (0)

Gerd Kanter made history last night in Växjö, Sweden when he broke the  World Indoor Record in Discus by throwing 69.51m.

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World Record Challenge indoors in Växjö, Sweden, at the 22th of March! (0)

 

The 22 March, IFK Växjö (Swedish Athletic Club) will organize a World Record Challenge Meeting in discus throw in Tipshallen, Växjö.

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What a start for Gerd. (0)

 Gerd Kanter started his season with a huge throw at the EAA Winter Throwing Challenge in Tenerife this weekend.

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Outstanding for Nick (0)

Nick Petersen won a Bronze medal in the EAA Winter Throwing Challenge in Tenerife this weekend.

Nick put the shot 18.17m and that was enough for a third place in the U23 group.

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Kim close to the final in Torino. (0)

Kim, Raigo and Nick all competed on Saturday in the European Indoor Championships in Torino, Italy. 

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The Danish duo puts on a show in Skive. (0)

The Danish Championships was in Skive in Denmark today. 

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Good training with Niklas in Växjo. (0)

Niklas Arrhenius came over to Sweden for a week to train with us in Växjö as well as compete in the Swedish Championships in Shot Put for his club Spårvägen in Stockholm. 

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All three shot putters go to Torino (0)

Kim Christensen, Raigo Toompuu and Nick Petersen have all been selected by their federations to participate in the European Indoor Championships in Torino next weekend. 

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Great performances for Kim, Raigo and Nick. (0)

The Shot Putters competed tonight in an Estonian GP meet indoors in Tallinn, Estonia. 

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Raigo Toompuu Estonian champion in shot put. (0)

Raigo Toompuu won the Estonian Championships in Shot Put tonight. Raigo put the shot 18.93m. This was his third indoor meet this year and still a little under what he can do. But 30cm farther than in the same meet last year. 

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Kim and Nick throw well in Göteborg (0)

The Danish Duo had a great night in Göteborg, Sweden tonight. Kim won the meet with a personal best performace of 19.47m. Nick also did his best ever indoor with a 17.78m throw. 

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Kim and Raigo throw well in Lievin. (0)

Kim Christensen and Raigo Toompuu competed in an IAAF permit meet tonight in Liévin, France. 

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Axel Härstedt training well in Sweden. (0)

Axel Härstedt the newest member of the Global Throwing Group came to Växjö this weekend and did four sessions with us and had in a way a technical breakthrough. 

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Nick Petersen opens up his indoor season in Denmark. (0)

Nick Petersen competed in a small meet in Hvidovre Denmark last night. Nick threw a new PR in the Shot Put 17.30m.  

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Good news from USA and Niklas Arrhenius will come for a visit to Sweden soon. (0)

Niklas is doing really good in USA. Since this fall he has been training really well and it seems as everything is falling into place for him in every aspect of his career.

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Raigo Toompuu opens up his season with 18.76m (0)

Raigo Toompuu competed in his first meet last night in Tallinn and put the Shot 18.76m. In relation to how things have been going lately with his throwing he should be satisfied with that result.

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Personal best for Kim Christensen in Malmö. (0)

Kim Christensen Denmark had a great day yesterday in Malmö, Sweden when he threw a Personal Record, 19.23m in Shot Put against the best Shot Putters in the world.

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Second training camp in Tenerife for 2009 season is over. (0)

The second camp of this season is over for our team, this time we were in Tenerife. Participants were Gerd Kanter, Märt Israel, Raigo Toompuu, Kim Christensen, Nick Petersen and Navdeep Dhaliwal.

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Vésteinn Hafsteinsson - best coach of the year in Estonia. (0)

 

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (0)

 

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Lecture in Selfoss the hometown in Iceland. (0)

Vésteinn Hafsteinsson will have an open lecture in Selfoss, Iceland on Thursday.  

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First training camp in Växjö for 2008-2009 season is over. (0)

The first training camp in Växjö in Sweden is over for our team. Participants were Gerd Kanter, Märt Israel, Raigo Toompuu, Kim Christensen, Nick Petersen, Axel Härstedt and Navdeep Dhaliwal.  

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New homepage! (0)

Finally the new homepage opens up. It is still not done but from January 1st 2009 the idea is to keep it up daily with information about Global Throwing Coaching and Management.