Javelin record regained

Press, 4 November 1986, Page 30

Javelin record regained

PA Hamilton The Waikato athlete, Gavin Lovegrove, has returned from New Caledonia restored as the -holder of the world junior javelin record. Lovegrove, who threw a record 76.68 m at the European championships but lost the record to a Russian at the world junior championships in Athens in July, achieved 79.58 m at the New Caledonian champion-

ships. This was only six metres outside the world senior record. Lovegrove, who turned 19 on October 21, hit the world junior record in New Caledonia witli his fifth round throw, the same as he did when he broke the record for the first time. His coach, Barbara Stephens, said yesterday she expected Lovegrove to perform up to the standard he achieved at

the meeting. “When he competed at an international meeting'’ there, after we arrived, he was not at his best,” she said. “He wasn’t acclimatised to the heat and he was troubled by dehydration. “We were lucky being able to talk to the world’s top javelin thrower Klaus Tafelmeier.