Vadims Vasiļevskis

Vadim Vasilevskis ( born January 5, 1982 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR) is a Latvian javelin thrower.

In his first international championship, the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002, Vasilevskis failed in qualifying.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he threw in qualifying 84.43 m and increased in the final in the very first passage at 84.95 m. Andreas Thorkildsen only (NOR ) 86.50 m was achieved with a better try, so that at the end Vasilevskis won the silver medal ahead of Sergei Makarov (RUS ) with 84.84 m.

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he retired again in qualifying, the following year, but his first litter over the 90 - m mark he succeeded. He therefore was one of the favorites for the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg. However, with Andreas Thorkildsen and the Finn Tero Pitkämäki two other 90 - meter thrower there were in the lead, and doyen January Zelezny snapped with his only valid trial ( 85.92 m) the Latvians still the bronze medal away. Vasilevskis was fourth with 83.21 m.

In 2007 he improved his personal record on July 22 in Tallinn on 90.73 meters and finished fourth at the World Championships in Osaka.

Vadim Vasilevskis has a competition weight of 80 kg at a height of 1.89 m.