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Key facts
- Full name
- Primož Kozmus
- Nationality
- Slovenia
- Born
- ( 1979-09-30 ) 30 September 1979 (age 46) , Novo Mesto , SR Slovenia , SFR Yugoslavia
- Height
- 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Weight
- 106 kg (234 lb; 16.7 st)
- Country
- Slovenia
- Sport
- athletics
- Event
- Hammer throw
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Primož
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Place of birth
- Novo Mesto
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- Slovene
- Participant in
- 2000 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Slovenia
- Mass
- 106
- Image
- Primož Kozmus in military uniform in 2009.jpg
- Height
- 188
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- Commons category
- Primož Kozmus
- date of birth
- 1979-09-30
- sports discipline competed in
- hammer throw
- name in native language
- Primož Kozmus
- social media followers
- 3205
- Commons Creator page
- Primož Kozmus
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Primož Kozmus (born 30 September 1979 in Novo Mesto) is a Slovenian hammer thrower. His gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2009 World Championships in Berlin made him the first ever Slovenian athlete to win both titles.
His personal best throw and the Slovenian record is 82.58 metres, achieved in September 2009 in Celje, Slovenia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Primož Kozmus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.