Former Mississippi State track and field athlete Anderson Peters won an Olympic bronze medal in the men’s javelin throw Thursday, with his best throw coming in at 88.54 meters.
Representing Grenada, Peters became the first Bulldog to medal in the Olympics since 2000, when Jude Moyne of Nigeria won gold as part of the 4×400-meter relay team. Peters was a two-time Southeastern Conference and NCAA champion at MSU in 2018 and 2019. At the 2019 NCAA Championships, he set the NCAA record with a throw of 86.62 meters, and he still is responsible for five of the 10 longest collegiate throws on record.
Peters made his Olympic debut in 2021 in Tokyo, but by that time, he had already won a world championship gold medal in 2019, and he added another in 2022. He won his fourth Grenadian championship earlier this year, and is now the first Bulldog in program history to win an Olympic medal in a field event.
Through the first three rounds Thursday, Peters’ best mark was 87.87 meters, which put him in fourth place. But his best throw of the night came in the fourth round, launching him past Jakub Vadlejch of Czechia to earn a spot on the podium. Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan won gold, with Neeraj Chopra of India, the Olympic champion in Tokyo, taking home the silver.
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