Here are some results from last year’s Worlds in Moscow:<\/p>\n
8th Place<\/strong>: 77.57m\u00a0\u00a0 Bronze<\/strong>: 79.36m\u00a0\u00a0 Silver<\/strong>: 80.30m\u00a0\u00a0Gold<\/strong>: 81.97m<\/p>\n Sacramento results:<\/p>\n 3rd:<\/strong> Chris Cralle 72.83m\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a02nd<\/strong>: AG Kruger 73.34m<\/p>\n 1st<\/strong>: Kibwe Johnson 74.16m<\/p>\n \u00a0Kibwe’s PB is\u00a080.31m, but at 33 years of age his chances of making the finals in 2015 or 2016 appear slim. Same for Kruger, who is 35. Chris Cralle is young (26) but with a PR of 74.55m he is going to have to find a way to stay in the sport long enough to get to the point where he can throw 77m to 80m consistently.<\/p>\n Outlook<\/strong>: Not so good. It would be a huge step forward just to get someone in the final eight in Beijing or Rio.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Javelin<\/strong><\/p>\n Moscow results:<\/p>\n 8th<\/strong>: 80.03m\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bronze<\/strong>: 86.23m\u00a0\u00a0 Silver<\/strong>:87.07m\u00a0\u00a0 Gold<\/strong>: 87.17m<\/p>\n Sacramento results:<\/p>\n 3rd<\/strong>: Tim Glover 78.87m<\/p>\n 2nd<\/strong>: Riley Dolezal 79.27m<\/p>\n 1st<\/strong>: Sean Furey 81.10m<\/p>\n If 80m gets you into the final again in 2015, all three of these guys would obviously have a shot. A medal? Hmmmm. Glover is the youngest of the three at 24, and has the longest PR (84.01m) but he graduated college this spring and must find a stable training environment if he is to lead the US to international respectability.<\/p>\n Outlook<\/strong>: Forget about 2015 or 2016, but my 2020 vision says that if Glover can stay with it he might be the guy to break through.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0The Discus:<\/strong><\/p>\n Moscow results:<\/p>\n 8th<\/strong>: 63.38m\u00a0\u00a0 Bronze<\/strong>: 65.19m\u00a0 Silver<\/strong>: 68.36m Gold<\/strong>: 69.11m<\/p>\n Sacramento Results:<\/p>\n 3rd<\/strong>: Mason Finley 61.04m<\/p>\n 2nd<\/strong>: Bryan Powlen 61.05m<\/p>\n 1st<\/strong>: Hayden Reed 62.19m<\/p>\n The good news? The 26-year-old Powlen is the old man of this crew. Finley has decided to give up shot putting to focus on the disc, and Reed is clearly a fearless young man. The bad news?\u00a0 There is a veteran group of discus throwers on the international scene all of whom have shown the ablility to throw 65+ in stadiums–68+ in the case of by Robert Harting, Piotr Malachowski,\u00a0 Gerd Kanter, and Ehsan Hadadi.<\/p>\n Outlook<\/strong>: \u00a0As a Chicago White Sox fan, I love to make fun of the Cubs and their hundred-years-and-counting title drought. The suffering of their\u00a0supporters has reached Biblical proportions, with no end in sight. Sadly, American discus fans are in the same boat.<\/p>\n The Shot Put<\/strong><\/p>\n Moscow results:<\/p>\n 8th<\/strong>: 20.39m\u00a0 Bronze<\/strong>: 21.34m\u00a0 Silver<\/strong>: 21.57m Gold<\/strong>: 21.73m<\/p>\n Sacramento Results:<\/p>\n 3rd: Reese Hoffa 20.78m<\/p>\n 2nd: Kurt Roberts 21.47m<\/p>\n 1st: Joe Kovacs 22.03m<\/p>\n Consider the humble cactus. It flourishes in the type of dry, barren soil that kills off most other plants. Same for American shotputters. No one knows exactly what factors have conspired to keep the United States from regularly producing world class jav, hammer, and disc throwers, \u00a0but whatever\u00a0those factors\u00a0may be (lack of governmental support, the predominance of football, an evil curse) they seem to have no affect whatsoever on our ability to crank out excellent shot putters.<\/p>\n Looking\u00a0 at the numbers those guys put up in Sacramento, would anyone guess that\u00a0 three men who have thrown over 21 meters this season were forced by injury to withdraw from the competition?<\/p>\n My teenaged daughter would call that “sick!”<\/p>\n Outlook<\/strong>: Hard to imagine an elephant fitting in a room full of American shot putters, but it’s not going away until one of them wins an Olympic gold medal.\u00a0 Will our phalanx of phenoms finally overwhelm those\u00a0cursed European gliders? Majewski is getting long in the tooth and has been injured quite a bit lately, but Storl is still young and still…Storl.\u00a0 If nothing else, the shot final in Beijing and Rio should be riveting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2014 USATF championships are in the books, but with no World or Olympic titles to shoot for this year it seems like a proper moment to size up the state of the throwing events in this country and to speculate on what it will take to medal or at least make the finals next … Continue reading So where does that leave us? Part 1: the men<\/span> ![\"kibwe\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcthrows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kibwe.jpg\")
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