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Full name | Jennifer Dahlgren Fitzner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 21 April 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 112 kg (247 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 28 January 2015 |
Jennifer Dahlgren Fitzner (born 21 April 1984) is a retired Argentine hammer thrower.[1] Having spent much of her life in the United States, she competed as an amateur for the University of Georgia. She set the US collegiate hammer record and was the NCAA Outdoor champion in both 2006 and 2007. She is a three-time gold medallist at the South American Championships and won the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games.
Dahlgren has represented Argentina at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics,[2] as well as having competed at the World Championships in Athletics on three occasions. She first broke the South American record in the discipline in 2004 and has raised it several metres to her current best of 73.74 m. She is one of the continent's top performers in the event, in which South American athletes are historically weak. In 2010 she won the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the five best Athletes from the last decade in Argentina.[3]