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About Kibwé

Biography

Event: Hammer Throw
Height: 6-2 / 188 cm
Weight: 238 pounds / 108 kg
PRs: Hammer Throw – 80.31m/266’9″; Weight Throw – 25.12m/ 82’4″; Discus – 65.11m/213’7″
Born: July 17, 1981
Current Residence: Kamloops, B.C., Canada
High School: North Gwinnett HS (Suwanee, Ga) ’99
Colleges: Georgia, Moorpark (CA), Ashland (OH) ’08
Coach: Dr. Anatoly Bondarchuck
Agent: Valentina Fedjuschina
Club: New York Athletic Club

Career highlights:

  • Four-time US hammer throw champion (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015) and 2008 US weight throw champion.
  • 2012 Olympic Finalist and 2016 Olympian
  • Two-time Pan American Games Champion (2011, 2015) and 2007 Pan American Games runner-up
  • Third best thrower in American history and one of just four throwers over the 80-meter barrier.
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Kibwé Johnson is the Pan-American Games Champion, Olympic finalist, and multiple-time US champion in the hammer throw.

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