Sports / Off the Field
Long jumper Sdiri hit by javelin in Rome
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-14 16:48
ROME, July 13 - French long jumper Salim Sdiri was not seriously injured
despite being impaled by a javelin at a Golden League meeting in Rome,
the stadium announcer said on Friday.
The incident occurred midway through the evening when Finn Tero Pitkamaki
slipped at the end of his run-up, hurling the javelin to the left of the
landing area and spearing Sdiri in his right side as he crouched in the
long jump warm-up section.
A medical crew and ambulance were quickly at the scene to attend to Sdiri
and then take him to hospital.
"He was hit on the right. He is conscious, but we don't yet know how deep
it went..." the medical officer for the Italian Athletic Federation,
Giuseppe Fischetto, told Reuters immediately after the incident.
A shocked-looking Pitkamaki held his head in his hands after the incident
but managed to regain his composure to take his fourth throw in the
competition.
In January, Olympic decathlon champion Roman Sebrle was impaled by a
javelin in a training accident.
The Czech world record holder was hit in the right shoulder while
crossing the field at his training camp in South Africa and needed 11
stitches in the wound.
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