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Medalists at the 2004 World Indoors


Reese Hoffa

Read about Reese in the news:

Reese Hoffa established himself as the world leader with a huge 21.87 m throw in Chemnitz, Germany on Friday evening (1/27/2012). News article

Orphan to Olympian: Hoffa's long road
FOXSports.com
Reese Hoffa was 21 years old, sitting at a coffee shop in his college town, studying for an exam. Then his cell phone rang: A number he didn't recognize. ...

Plant City mom adds foster sons to family on adoption day
Tbo.com
Olympic track and field athlete Reese Hoffa, the keynote speaker at today's adoption ceremonies in downtown Tampa, empathizes with Barefoot's situation. ...

Reese won the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon on June 4, 2011 with a throw of 21.65 meters, his best throw this year!

Reese took first place in the Netherlands on May 28, 2011 with a world leading throw of 21.87 meters! See the story here.

Hoffa's 21.08m heave the highlight in Hobart - Hobart, Australia - Reese Hoffa was billed as the star of the Briggs Athletics Classic in Hobart, and the big American did not let anyone down, producing an all-comers’ record in the Shot Put and providing the competitive stimulus to push emerging Australian thrower Dale Stevenson past the 20-metre line. -- Sunday, 20 February 2011

Another first place for Reese at the ISTAF Athletics Meeting at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany on August 22, 2010. see article with pictures of Reese

Reese took first place at the London Diamond on August 14, 2010 with a throw of 21.44 meters! see video of interview with Reese (or here)

Shot (put) heard round the world

The University of Georgia Magazine - June 2008

Read an entire story of Reese's life, his adoption and then finding his birth mother in this news article published June 26, 2005 in the Washington Post -- A Lost Child Finds Himself in Adulthood

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For the latest statistics of Reese's throwing, see RESULTS

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Reese Hoffa, Christian Cantwell and Joachim Olsen (from Denmark) Medalists at the 2004 World Indoors

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