Career
Räty won two world titles and three Olympic medals, and in 1991 threw 96.96 m with a javelin featuring a roughened tail that generated extra lift. The design was outlawed within months and the mark was struck from the records.
🎯 Javelin Throw · Javelin
Seppo Räty
Finland · 1980–1996
Threw so far with a roughened javelin that the design was banned.
- 2
- World titles
- 3
- Olympic medals
- 96.96 m
- Annulled throw
- 90.60 m
- Legal best
Honours
- World Champion in 1987 and 1991
- Olympic silver in 1992 and two bronzes
- His roughened-tail javelin was banned after one season
- Part of Finland's long javelin tradition
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