Tanel Laanmäe
Estonian javelin thrower
Laanmäe at the 2015 European Team Championships | |
Personal information | |
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Born | (1989-09-29) 29 September 1989 (age 34) Valga County, Estonia |
Education | Tallinn University[1] |
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] |
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Track and field |
Event | Javelin throw |
Club | Viraaz |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 85.04 m (2016) |
Tanel Laanmäe (born 29 September 1989) is an Estonian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw.[3] He won the gold medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade. He has also represented his country at the 2009, 2015 and 2017 World Championships.
His personal best in the event, set in 2016, is 85.04 m.
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Result | |
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2006 | World Junior Championships | Beijing, China | 29th (q) | 62.07 m | |
2007 | European Junior Championships | Hengelo, Netherlands | 7th | 70.33 m | |
2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 9th | 68.88 m | |
2009 | European U23 Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 21st (q) | 68.35 m | |
World Championships | Berlin, Germany | – | NM | ||
2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 8th | 73.20 m | |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 24th (q) | 71.87 m | |
2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 18th (q) | 75.29 m | |
2015 | Universiade | Gwangju, South Korea | 1st | 81.71 m | |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 13th (q) | 80.65 m | ||
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 15th (q) | 80.46 m | |
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 18th (q) | 80.45 m | ||
2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 25th (q) | 76.41 m | |
2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 15th (q) | 77.21 m |
Seasonal bests by year
- 2006 – 69.37
- 2007 – 76.35
- 2008 – 75.93
- 2009 – 81.96
- 2010 – 77.93
- 2011 – 78.18
- 2012 – 80.75
- 2013 – 81.05
- 2014 – 81.16
- 2015 – 83.82
- 2016 – 85.04
- 2017 – 82.58
References
- ^ 2015 WSG profile
- ^ EAA profile
- ^ Tanel Laanmäe at World Athletics
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Summer Universiade champions in men's javelin throw
- 1959: Hermann Salomon (FRG)
- 1961: Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)
- 1963: Jānis Lūsis (URS)
- 1965: Rolf Herings (FRG)
- 1967: Dave Travis (GBR)
- 1970: Miklós Németh (HUN)
- 1973: Jānis Zirnis (URS)
- 1975: Gheorghe Megelea (ROM)
- 1977: Vasiliy Yershov (URS)
- 1979: Helmut Schreiber (FRG)
- 1981–1983: Dainis Kūla (URS)
- 1985: Dumitru Negoiţă (ROM)
- 1987: Marek Kaleta (URS)
- 1989–1991: Steve Backley (GBR)
- 1993: Louis Fouché (RSA)
- 1995: Zhang Lianbiao (CHN)
- 1997: Marius Corbett (RSA)
- 1999–2001: Ēriks Rags (LAT)
- 2003: Igor Janik (POL)
- 2005: Ainārs Kovals (LAT)
- 2007: Vadims Vasiļevskis (LAT)
- 2009: Ainārs Kovals (LAT)
- 2011: Fatih Avan (TUR)
- 2013: Dmitriy Tarabin (RUS)
- 2015: Tanel Laanmäe (EST)
- 2017: Cheng Chao-tsun (TPE)
- 2019: Andrian Mardare (MDA)
- 2021: Edis Matusevičius (LTU)
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