Olympic Games 2024: Nikola Ogrodníková saved the Czech javelin school under five rings and won bronze

In Saturday’s final race, Ogrodníková recorded her longest throw since 2021. However, the journey to this valuable metal was not at all easy for this Czech athlete at first. Let’s remind you that at the beginning of the qualification, she exceeded the qualification limit with her first attempt, which would have immediately moved her to the final. But even though she threw the necessary 62 meters then, she unfortunately stepped on it.

As for the final itself, it didn’t start exactly as expected, when she only sent the javelin below the sixty-meter mark. Even in the final, she had a misstep, it happened on her second attempt. At that time, it was not at all certain that she would make it to the final eight contestants, but she changed everything with her third attempt. Thanks to her third attempt (63.68 meters), she not only got into the top eight competitors, but especially at that moment she held the bronze third place.

Ogrodníková herself did not improve this performance in her remaining two attempts, so she waited to see if any of the four opponents who could threaten her would not overtake her. That did not happen and she was the first Czech athlete to win a medal at these Games. The second South African, Jo-Ane van Dyková, who threw 25 centimeters longer, and the first Japanese, Haruka Kitaguchiová (65.80), threw even better in this final, who is also a Czech representative, as she is also preparing in Kladno and under the guidance of Czech coach David Sekerák.