Weigh It Up · Sport
How heavy is Javelin?
800 gweight
World Athletics sets the men's javelin at 800 g.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Javelin.
- 4× the smartphone (200 g)
- 0.18× a house cat (4.5 kg)
- 6.67× the banana (120 g)
- 13.3× the egg (60 g)
How to picture 800 g
Start from something you can see right now. Javelin is about 4× smartphone. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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