2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil Aug 05-21,2016 - Croatia's Sara Kolak Wins Gold Medal in Women's Javelin Thursday Aug 18,2016

The women's javelin finals were held Thursday evening Aug 18,2016 in Olympic Stadium.

Sara Kolak of Croatia came away with the gold medal, with Sunette Viljoen of South Africa winning silver and Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic taking the bronze medal.

Former South African cricketer Sunnette Viljoen created history by winning silver medal in the Women's Javelin Thow

 

Former South African cricketer Sunnette Viljoen created history at  Rio 2016 by winning a silver medal at Rio Olympics in the Women’s  Javelin Throw event.

South Africa's Sunnette Viljoen, who played one Test and 17 ODIs for the Proteas’ women’s team, finished second behind Croatian Sara Kolak, with her best throw of 64.92m behind Kolak's 66.18m.

South Africa's Sunnette Viljoen’s only Test outing came against India in March 2002, where she scored 17 and 71 in two innings. After making ODI debut in 2000, she called times two two years later with 198 runs and five wickets to her name.

The complete results of the finals 

1 Gold: Sara Kolak, Croatia - 66.18 meters

2 Silver: Sunette Viljoen, South Africa - 64.92 meters

3 Bronze: Barbora Spotakova, Czech Republic - 64.80

4. Maria Andrejczyk, Poland - 64.78 meters

5. Tatsiana Khaladovich, Belarus - 64.60 meters

6. Kathryn Mitchell, Australia - 64.36 meters

7. Lyu Huihui, China - 64.04 meters

8. Christina Obergföll, Germany - 62.92 meters

9. Flor Ruiz, Colombia - 61.54 meters

10. Madara Palameika, Poland - 60.14 meters

11. Linda Stahl, Germany - 59.71 meters

12. Christin Hussong, Germany - 57.70 meters