PETERS Anderson

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Javelin Throw
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (86.89)
2017	London, GBR	Qual. (78.99)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	Javelin Throw
2019	Lima, PER	1st (87.31)

NACAC Championships

Year	Location	Javelin Throw
2018	Toronto, ON, CAN	1st (79.65)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Javelin Throw
2021	1 x 4th, 1 x 5th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2021	Javelin Throw	Gateshead, GBR	75.65
5	2021	Javelin Throw	Gateshead, GBR	80.59

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2021	Javelin Throw	World Athletics Continental Tour	Eugene, OR, USA	82.72
2	2021	Javelin Throw	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	83.39
7	2021	Javelin Throw	World Athletics Continental Tour	Turku, FIN	80.01

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete, Student

Business Administration - Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA

English

Mississippi State University [Starkville, MS, USA]

Chris Woods [club]; April Thomas [club]; Paul Phillip [personal], GRN

He took up javelin at age 10. He switched to sprints before moving back to javelin at age 14. (worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019; reuters.com, 06 Oct 2019)

He took up athletics after watching fellow Grenadian Kirani James win gold in the 400m at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, Republic of Korea. "He [Kirani] showed it's possible for anyone to become a world champion. I always wanted to be a sprinter but I kept getting injured, so my coach and I decided to try another discipline and we chose javelin. It turned out that I was pretty good at it." (reuters.com, 06 Oct 2019)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nowgrenada.com, 23 Aug 2019)

He trains six days a week. (worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

Coach Paul Phillip. (worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

While competing for Mississippi State University in 2018 he was named Southeastern Conference [SEC] Men's Freshman Field Athlete of the Year. In 2019 he was named the US Track and Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association [USTFCCCA] Co-South Region Field Athlete of the Year. (hailstate.com, 29 May 2018)