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Ferenc Paragi - Wikipedia

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Ferenc Paragi
Personal information
Born	(1953-08-21)21 August 1953 Budapest, Hungary
Died	21 April 2016(2016-04-21) (aged 62)
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	104 kg (229 lb)
Sport
Country	Hungary
Sport	Track and field
Event	Javelin throw
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	1976 Summer Olympics (20th) 1980 Summer Olympics (10th)
National finals	Hungarian Athletics Championships (Winner: 1975–77, 1979, 1982)
Personal best	96.72m (1980, WR)

Ferenc Paragi (21 August 1953 – 21 April 2016) was a Hungarian athlete who, on 23 April 1980 established a world record of 96.72 meters in the javelin throw, eclipsing the global standard set by fellow countryman Miklós Németh at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[1]

This effort added more than two meters to the previous world record, fueling discussion and speculation regarding the likelihood of alterations to the javelin's design and flight characteristics. Proposed changes would finally take effect in 1986, following another two sizable improvements to the javelin world record; the first coming in 1983, when Tom Petranoff, then of the United States, added precisely three meters to Paragi's mark, and the other in 1984, when East German Uwe Hohn launched the 800 gram implement to 104.80 meters.

Hohn's mark only came after the new design had already been officially proposed, and contrary to a popular myth had nothing to do with the change.^[2] Indeed, the primary reason for the change was to get rid of the then frequent flat or ambiguous landings, which often made it hard to assess if a throw should be declared legal, most famously in the high-profile case at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow where the eventual winner Dainis Kūla only progressed to the last three rounds with an apparently flat throw.^[2] Ambiguous landings were also much more difficult to measure accurately, compared to clearly legal ones where the javelin would stick in the ground at the landing spot.

Paragi also competed at the Moscow Olympics. Even though his form had dipped a bit after another monster mark of 96.20 on 18 May 1980, there could be no question he was among the leading favorites. However, he had problems in the qualifying round, languishing more than five meters from a spot in the finals after two rounds with a sub-standard mark of 72.60, but saved himself by throwing 88.76 with his third and final attempt – the best mark in the whole qualifying competition by almost three meters. Next day in the final however, he could do no better than 79.52 and finished in tenth place. His qualification performance would have been enough for a bronze.

Paragi was the Hungarian champion for 5 years.^[3]

References

^ Meghalt a volt világcsúcstartó magyar gerelyhajító (in Hungarian)
^ ^a ^b Erich Bremicker. "Why did the senior javelin specification have to be changed?". Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2009.
^ Former Javelin World Record-holder Paragi Dies

External links

Olympic Javelin Statistics
Ferenc Paragi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

World best year performance in men's javelin throw

1971–1972: Jānis Lūsis (URS)
1973: Klaus Wolfermann (FRG)
1974: Hannu Siitonen (FIN)
1975–1977: Miklós Németh (HUN)
1978: Michael Wessing (FRG)
1979: Pentti Sinersaari (FIN)
1980: Ferenc Paragi (HUN)
1981: Detlef Michel (GDR)
1982: Bob Roggy (USA)
1983: Tom Petranoff (USA)
1984–1985: Uwe Hohn (GDR)
1986: Klaus Tafelmeier (FRG)
1987–1988: Jan Železný (TCH)
1989: Kazuhiro Mizoguchi (JPN)
1990: Steve Backley (GBR)
1991: Seppo Räty (FIN)
1992: Steve Backley (GBR)
1993–1994: Jan Železný (CZE)
1995: Raymond Hecht (GER)
1996–1997: Jan Železný (CZE)
1998–1999: Aki Parviainen (FIN)
2000: Konstadinos Gatsioudis (GRE)
2001: Jan Železný (CZE)
2002–2003: Sergey Makarov (RUS)
2004: Alexandr Ivanov (RUS)
2005: Tero Pitkämäki (FIN)
2006: Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR)
2007: Breaux Greer (USA)
2008–2011: Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR)
2012: Vítězslav Veselý (CZE)
2013: Tero Pitkämäki (FIN)
2014: Ihab Abdelrahman (EGY)
2015: Julius Yego (KEN)
2016: Thomas Röhler (GER)
2017–2018: Johannes Vetter (GER)
2019: Magnus Kirt (EST)
2020–2021: Johannes Vetter (GER)
2022: Anderson Peters (GRN)
2023: Jakub Vadlejch (CZE)
2024: Arshad Nadeem (PAK)

Hungarian Athletics Championships winners in men's javelin throw

1911–14: Mór Kóczán
1915: Máté Szakáll
1916–17: Imre Mudin
1918: Mór Kóczán
1919–22: Lajos Csejthey
1923: László Gyurkó
1924: Lajos Csejthey
1925–31: Béla Szepes
1932–43: József Várszegi
1944: Gyula Rákhely
1945–52: József Várszegi
1953–57: Sándor Krasznai
1958–60: Gergely Kulcsár
1961: Sándor Krasznai
1962–69: Gergely Kulcsár
1970: József Csík
1971: Gergely Kulcsár
1972: József Csík
1973: Miklós Németh
1974: György Erdélyi
1975–77: Ferenc Paragi
1978: Sándor Boros
1979: Ferenc Paragi
1980–81: Miklós Németh
1982: Ferenc Paragi
1983: Miklós Németh
1984–85: András Temesi
1986: Tamás Bolgár
1987: László Stefán
1988: Attila Bareith
1989: László Stefán
1990: Ferenc Knausz
1991: László Palotai
1992: Lajos Varga
1993–98: József Belák
1999–2005: Gergely Horváth
2006–09: Csongor Olteán
2010–11: Krisztián Török
2012: Bence Papp
2013: Krisztián Török
2014: Zoltán Magyari
2015–21: Norbert Rivasz-Tóth

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