Jennifer Dahlgren

Jennifer Dahlgren Fitzner (* April 21 1984 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine Hammer Throw.

Jennifer Dahlgren has lived since she was five years in the United States, first in Texas since 2003 in Athens and studied at the University of Georgia English Studies. Her mother Irene Fitzner took part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich as a sprinter. Dahlgren trained first at Andrés Charadía, starting in 2003 with Donald Babbit and since 2010 with Marcelo Pugliese. She is 1,81 m tall and 118 kg in weight.

She joined the International Athletics Junior Championships 2000 in appearance, but finished only eleventh place. In 2001, she was in competition at the youth Fourth, 2002. Fifth at the Junior Dahlgren presented at numerous South African records in the junior level and won several titles at Southern and Pan American junior competitions. In 2003, she cracked the first time the 60 -meter mark and improved the Argentine youth record at 61.60 m. The new personal best of 66.12 meters in June 2004 at the NCAA Championships in Austin (Texas ) ensured their participation in the Olympic Games. In Athens, she stayed with 59.52 m below its potential and finished the competition as the 43rd after qualification. Things went better for them at the Athletics South America championship in 2005 in Cali, where she won the title with a new championship record of 65.05 m. This title she defended in 2006 in Tunja with 69.07 m. In 2006, she threw in Fayetteville ( Arkansas) 71.78 m, surpassing for the first time the 70 meters, in the course of the year they rose in Greensboro (North Carolina) still on 72.01 m. In 2007, she improved again perform at their best - simultaneously Argentine record - to 72.94 m, but had to settle for 68.70 m at the Pan American Games bend the two Cubans Yipsi Moreno and Arasay Thondike. In 2008, she was handicapped by a foot injury, it remained at a season best of 66.38 m. Only three inches shorter she threw at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, but this was only in 29th place after qualifying. 2009 Dahlgren tied back to their old performance of their Jahresbestweite it achieved in February with 72.79 m in Buenos Aires. The World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, she finished at number seventeen, 68,90 m was their size. The year 2010 Dahlgren began with a further increase of the Argentine record, as it improved in April in Buenos Aires at 73.74 m.