Julius Hutka Explained

Július Hutka
Birth Date:18 March 1974
Birth Place:Baškovce, Humenné District, Czechoslovakia
Sport:Paralympic athletics
Disability:Paresis
Disability Class:F57
Event:Javelin throw
Shot put

Július Hutka (born 18 March 1974) is a Paralympic former athlete from Slovakia competing mainly in category F57 shot put and javelin events.[1] [2]

Hutka has competed in the javelin three times in the Paralympics without winning a medal but he has won a bronze in the shot put in 2004 but could not match it in 2008.[3]

Hutka worked as a builder, he went to Russia to do construction work. He fell from a height and damaged his spinal cord, he has been in a wheelchair since his serious accident.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Július Hutka . athletics.sk . Vrh guľou, hod oštepom, 32 rokov, telesne postihnutý - kategória F57 . 20 August 2012 . 20 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120820084131/http://www.athletics.sk/foto.php?album=5 . live .
  2. Web site: Július Hutka . spv.sk . https://web.archive.org/web/20130328111809/http://www.spv.sk/paralympijski-sportovci/hutka . 28 March 2013.
  3. Web site: 29 August 2022 . Julius Hutka - IPC Profile . International Paralympic Committee . 29 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220829153718/https://www.paralympic.org/julius-hutka . live .
  4. Web site: 29 August 2022 . Motivator Julius Hutka . Slovak . smesirovni.sk . 29 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220829152218/https://smesirovni.sk/motivatori/julius-hutka/ . live .