javelinist

plural javelinists

1. rareathleticsA javelin thrower.

   Popular athletes took the form of the long striding Akalonu to the record breaking javelinist; Sesan.

   2014, Oji Azuka, chapter 5, in A Binary Book, page 172

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   To the right another trainer leans on his stick watching two more athletes, first a discus thrower, holding the discus in both hands in front of him, second a javelinist tightening the thong of his weapon in his outstretched right hand; he stands frontal.

   1973, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 386