Ferenc Paragi

Ferenc Paragi [ fɛrɛnʦ pɒrɒɡi ] ( born August 21, 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian athlete who was active as a javelin thrower in the late 1970s.

His international debut was at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, where he, however, the qualifications required width of 79 m clearly failed with 77.48 meters and came in at number 20.

When he with 96,72 m setting a new world record on 23 April 1980 in Tata and the old mark of his fellow countryman Miklós Németh improved by 2.14 m, he was considered a favorite for the Olympic Games in Moscow. There he came to 88.76 m, a width, with whom he had won the bronze medal, if he had thrown them in the final and not in qualifying. In the final, but suddenly ran for the Hungarians nothing more. His first attempt was invalid, the following two landed below the 80 - m mark. Thus, the record holder was only tenth with 79.52 m.

Between Paragis Olympic appearances a disappointing ninth place was the European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, where they had expected more from the Hungarian, after he threw 91.92 m in the previous year and in the qualification with 86.04 m the best length all participants had achieved. In the final, but the same thing happened like two years later in Moscow: he broke down completely and did not come on the 80 -meter mark ( 79.04 m).

A medal he eventually won the Golden Event 1979 in Budapest, where he met with 85,38 m behind the Finn Arto Harkonen (1st with 90,18 m) and Antero Puranas (2nd with 89,40 m) came in at number 3.

Ferenc Paragi won five Hungarian National Championships:

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