Athletes would hold the javelin by the thong and when the javelin was released this thong unwound giving the javelin a spiraled flight.

The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown.

21 February 1988), javelin thrower Pierre Merkel (b.

At fifteen Beate became the Hessian javelin champion.

In international competition, men throw a javelin between in length and in weight, and women throw a javelin between in length and in weight.

The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

He became the Olympic Champion in the javelin at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with the result of 69.77 meters and competed successfully in many international javelin competitions.

Trine Hattestad (née Elsa Katrine Solberg) is a former Norwegian javelin thrower.

She set the world record for the javelin six times during the 1970s.

Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

Andreas Thorkildsen (born 1 April 1982) is a Norwegian javelin thrower, born in Kristiansand.

Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall and David fled, and escaped that night.

The pilum (plural pila ) was a javelin commonly used by the Roman army in ancient times.

They used weapons such as the dagger, the iron javelin, the falcata, and the brass spear.

He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.

He received a track scholarship to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where he competed in the javelin.

From 1930 to 1936, he broke the javelin throw world record a record ten times in a row.

Antigonus himself died in the battle after being struck by a javelin, in the eighty first year of his life.

Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary, will then be joined by Dame Kelly Holmes aboard the first Javelin commuter service out of London.

And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

And Saul cast the javelin for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand and David played with his hand.

And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand

Nor less in matters of war, in the use of the bow and the javelin, was he held by men in general to be at once the aptest of learners and the most eager practiser.

Transport for London (TfL) carried out numerous improvements in preparation for 2012, including the expansion of the London Overground's East London Line, upgrades to the Docklands Light Railway and the North London Line, and the introduction of a new Javelin high speed rail service.

Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house and David played with his hand, as at other times and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.

Steffi Nerius, second in the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, European champion at Gotland in 2006 and world champion in Berlin in 2009 in the javelin, received her basic light athletics training at the SG Empor Sassnitz to 1986 under the coaching of Günter Piniak.