(n.) A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game.
(v. t.) To pierce with a javelin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Then came the javelin and I threw a personal best.
(2) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
(3) Since the new javelin introduced in 1986 requires a greater explosive force, a tendency to an increased incidence of these alterations must be reckoned with in the future.
(4) Szczesny was also an athlete – he excelled at the javelin – but football gradually took over.
(5) There was more encouraging news for Britain with the 17-year-old Morgan Lake finishing in 17th place having also set a personal best in the javelin as she broke the 6,000 points mark with 6,081.
(6) Likely to go head to head with the London 2012 gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill at the world championships in Beijing in August, as well as at next year’s Olympics, Johnson-Thompson easily tops 1,000 points in five of her events but she struggles in the javelin and the shot.
(7) The shot and javelin are the clear weak points in my heptathlon so when Barrie thought of it [teaming up with Sayers] and brought it to me, it felt a stroke of genius for sure,” says Johnson-Thompson, who will compete in the British indoor championships in Sheffield this weekend and then the Birmingham indoor grand prix.
(8) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
(9) And her achievement in winning with a total of 6,669 points following consistently impressive results in the long jump, javelin and 800m on Sunday was in some ways greater than that era-defining exercise in managing pressure three years ago.
(10) I try to mentally prepare for the javelin like I do all the other events, but you can’t help but have it in the back of your head that you are going to lose points.
(11) Consideration is also given to the effects of wind velocity, air density, javelin weight and the flutter and spin of the javelin on its flight.
(12) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
(13) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
(14) "The big thing last year was getting ready for and then delivering an excellent Olympics because the Javelin service travelled over our line," says Shaw.
(15) Some of my events have been pretty poor or pretty standard but if I can go and get some proper training in there’s a lot more to come.” Ennis-Hill started day two in third place, behind Theisen-Eaton and the Dutch athlete Dafne Schippers, but after a moderate long jump of 6.16m and a javelin of 42.60m – both way below her best – she had slipped to fifth.
(16) Three different forms of enthesopathy involved the arm, principally the elbow, and may be tentatively correlated with javelin throwing, wood cutting, and archery.
(17) Among the names it mentioned were Mariya Abakumova, the javelin silver medallist, and Denis Alekseyev, who anchored Russia’s 4x400m team to bronze.
(18) The trouble with more effective weapons, such as the UK's Javelin, is that they need extensive training by experienced soldiers to be useful.
(19) I’ve got a great long jump and then I go into the javelin and everyone catches up, gains points or goes ahead of me and then I have to run my heart out in the 800m.” Improving her javelin would give her a mental edge too, she believes.
(20) In this paper, the scientific literature and that on the sports sciences relevant to javelin throwing is critically reviewed.
Pentathlon
Definition:
(n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, pentathlon and basketball sportsmen exhibit in their kinesthetic analyser the greatest number of minimum increases of sensation, namely 30.2 and 21.4 respectively, while those not engaged in any sport, 15.0.
(2) The 22-year-old is the current world No1 in heptathlon and took pentathlon gold at the European Indoor Championships in March .
(3) Oral application of elevated dosages of vitamin B1, B6 and B12 have been found to improve target shooting in marksmen, recruited from a local pentathlon association, in two different studies.
(4) The equivalent figure for canoeing is 45,700 while the number for modern pentathlon is recorded as an "insufficient sample size".
(5) If anyone doubts the scale of Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s ambitions, then they should have been in the mixed zone moments after she had won her first senior championship gold at the European Indoor Championships, broken Jessica Ennis-Hill’s British pentathlon record, and become only the second athlete to break the 5,000 points barrier.
(6) Just five months later she set a personal best in the pentathlon, nine points off the legendary Carolina Kluft's junior record.
(7) 10.17pm BST The crowd are singing along to the Beatles' All You Need Is Love There's delay in the pentathlon medal ceremony because of protests and counter-protests.
(8) I haven’t done the pentathlon since 2012 so I’m excited to be back but I know it won’t be easy and there’s going to be stiff competition.
(9) Closest correlation has been recorded among pentathlon sportmen, volley-ballers and fencers.
(10) Vd and average swimming velocities in a modern pentathlon swimming race (300 m free-style) were also correlated (n = 9, r = 0.91), thus suggesting that AT is critical in determining the speed in middle-distance swimming events.
(11) Nadine Broersen, from the Netherlands, is the world indoor champion in the pentathlon and she’ll be there but I’m in good form.” Ennis-Hill has stated that, when she matures fully, Johnson-Thompson will be a better heptathlete than even her.
(12) This study compares the effects of quiet breathing on the heart structure and function of pentathlon athletes (n = 11) and a less-conditioned control group (n = 12).
(13) UK Sport is currently spending more than £20m to fund elite canoeing during the Rio cycle, with the equivalent figure almost £7m for modern pentathlon.
(14) In the next few hours, 80,000 people here – as well as billions worldwide – will watch Jess Ennis become an Olympic pentathlon gold medallist.
(15) Her furtive preference for football in Liverpool ahead of ballet in London eventually led her to athletics and the point where, this week, she enters the European indoor championships as the clear favourite for the pentathlon .
(16) Johnson-Thompson is ranked world No1 in both the pentathlon and outdoors in the heptathlon – where, over the next 18 months, her contests with Jessica Ennis-Hill , the returning Olympic champion, should produce some gripping battles.
(17) Bronze, 1992 Barcelona Olympics Karen Roberts – Bronze, World Judo Championship 1999 Nicola Fairbrother – Silver, 1992 Barcelona Olympics LUGE Mark Hatton – Winter Olympian MODERN PENTATHLON Kate Allenby – Bronze, 2000 Sydney Olympics ROWING Miriam Batten – Silver, 2000 Sydney Olympics Annabel Eyres – Olympian, 1992 Barcelona Olympics Guin Batten – Silver, 2000 Sydney Olympics Frances Houghton – Two-time Silver, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2004 Athens Olympics Anna Bebington - Bronze, 2008 Beijing Olympics.
(18) Within this elite group the most successful performers were stronger and possessed a greater lean body weight which together suggest the importance of muscle mass for success in the pentathlon.