Libor Charfreitag

Libor Good Friday ( born September 11, 1977 in Trnava) is a Slovak hammer thrower.

As a participant in the 1999 World Championships in Seville and 2001 in Edmonton, he failed to qualify, as well at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Only at the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 he made it to the finals and finished seventh.

On June 29, 2003, he turned in Prague with a 81.81 m personal best, but came at the World Championships in Paris-Saint/Denis not again on the qualifications beyond.

This was followed by a seventh place finish at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and a ninth place finish at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. At Euro 2006, he failed in the first round.

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he finally managed to be on the podium of a major international tournament: With 81.60 meters he won the bronze medal after the vastness of the Vice World Champion 2005 Wadsim Dsewjatouski, could scarce surpass his sixth throw. In the 2008 Olympics he finished in eighth place in the following year, he finished tenth at the 2009 World Cup., He celebrated his biggest success in 2010 when he with 80.02 meters, the only breakthrough was achieved over 80 meters at the European Championships in 2010 and he thus Be the first athlete won an outdoor European champion title for Slovakia.

Libor Good Friday has a contest weight of 117 kg at a height of 1.91 m. He studied at the Texas Southern Methodist University, where he works as an assistant coach today. In 2003 and 2004 he was elected Slovak Athlete of the Year.