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Club throw

Track and field throwing event for disability athletes

Summary

Track and field throwing event for disability athletes

The club throw is an athletic throwing event where the objective is to throw a wooden club. The event is one of the four throwing events, along with discus, javelin and shot put of the Summer Paralympics. It is the Paralympic equivalent of the hammer throw. The club throw was introduced for both men and women at the first 1960 Summer Paralympic Games. It was dropped from the women's programme from the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona but was reinstated for London 2012.

Sport rules

Like other throwing events, the competition is decided by who can throw the club the farthest, though when the event is contested by athletes of different disability classifications, such as the Paralympics, the result is decided by a points score using the Raza Points System which considers athletes' relative levels of disability. The club for men and women weighs a minimum of 397 g and is normally made from wood with a metal base. The athlete sits in a frame in a throwing area which is within a marked circle between 2.135 and in diameter. The frame is common for each competitor and is rigid. The sport is contested at the Paralympics by athletes in the F31, F32 and F51 classes (individuals with the most significant impairment in hand function).

Records

the world record for the men's club in the 32 class is held by Maciej Sochal, who threw 37.19 m at the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships. The men's record in the 51 class is held by Željko Dimitrijević, who recorded a distance of 31.99 m at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships.

the world record for the women's club in the 32 class is held by Maroua Ibrahmi, who threw 26.93 m at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The women's record in the 51 class is held by America's Rachael Morrison, who recorded a distance of 23.82 m in Claremont, CA on 8 April 2017.

Paralympics

Men

Games	Location	Open to	Gold	Class	Distance
(points)	Silver	Class	Distance
(points)	Bronze	Class	Distance
(points)
1984	New York, United States	1A	Bart Dodson	1A	23.54	Franicsco de las Fuentes	1A	21.44	S. Wilkins	1A	21.12
1988	Seoul, South Korea	1A	Edund Weber	1A	23.44	Jose Danile Haylan	1A	18.28	Paolo D'Agostini	1A	17.50
1992	Barcelona, Spain	C6	Dae Kwan Kim	C6	51.58 WR	Keith Gardner	C6	43.78	S. Da Costa Neto	C6	43.50
1996	Atlanta, United States	F50	Stephen Miller	F50	25.84 WR	James Richardson	F50	22.75	Aaron Little	F50	20.65
2000	Sydney, Australia	F51	Stephen Miller	F51	27.74	Takefumi Anryo	F51	26.88	Ahmed Kamal	F51	26.08
2004	Athens, Greece	F32/F51	Stephen Miller	F32	33.53
(1133)	Radim Beles	F51	25.44
(993)	Karim Betina	F32	29.17
(986)
2008	Beijing, China	F32/F51	Mourad Idoudi	F32	35.77
(1125) WR	Stephen Miller	F32	34.37
(1081)	Jan Vanek	F51	25.29
(1063)
2012	London, United Kingdom	F31/32/51	Željko Dimitrijević	F51	26.88
(1010)	Radim Běleš	F51	26.67
(1004)	Lahouari Bahlaz	F32	36.31
(1003)
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	F32	Maciej Sochal	F32	33.91	Athanasios Konstantinidis	F32	33.69	Stephen Miller	F32	31.93
F51	Zeljko Dimitrijevic	F51	29.96 WR	Milos Mitic	F51	26.84	Marián Kuřeja	F51	26.82
2020	Tokyo, Japan	F32	Liu Li	F32	45.39 WR	Athanasios Konstantinidis	F32	38.68	Walid Ferhah	F32	35.34
F51	Musa Taimazov	F51	35.42 WR	Željko Dimitrijević	F51	35.29	Marián Kuřeja	F51	30.66

Women

Games	Location	Open to	Gold	Class	Distance (points)	Silver	Class	Distance (points)	Bronze	Class	Distance (points)
1960	Rome, Italy	A	Maria Scutti	A	19.10	Anna Maria Galimberti	A	17.82	Manette Berger-Waldenegg	A	17.32
B	Maria Scutti	B	20.07	Marlene Muhlendyck	B	19.42	Anna Maria Galimberti	B	19.11
C	Zander	C	26.62	Daphne Ceeney	C	21.11	Maria Scutti	C	20.21
2012	London, United Kingdom	F31/32/51	Maroua Ibrahmi	F32	23.43 WR	Mounia Gasmi	F32	22.51	Gemma Prescott	F32	20.50
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	F31/32	Maroua Ibrahmi	F32	26.93 WR	Mounia Gasmi	F32	25.41	Gemma Prescott	F32	19.77
F51	Joanna Butterfield	F51	22.81 WR	Zoia Ovsii	F51	22.21	Cassie Mitchell	F51	21.84
2020	Tokyo, Japan	F32	Róża Kozakowska	F32	28.74 WR	Anastasiia Moskalenko	F32	24.73	Mounia Gasmi	F32	23.29

References

"Club throw". channel4.com.
(7 March 2012). "IPC Athletics Rules and Regulations,". IPC.
(18 July 2017). "World Para Athletics World Records". [[World Para Athletics]].
(January 2025). "SK: Šta je veliki Željko rekao posle povlačenja?". N1.

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