ALFRED A.G. KRUGER
Event: Hammer Throw
Height: 6-4
Weight: 260
PRs: 79.26m/260-0 (2004)
Born: Feb. 18, 1979 in Sheldon, Iowa
Current Residence: Ashland, Ohio
High School: Sheldon, Iowa '97
Colleges: Morningside (Sioux City, Iowa) '01
Coach: Jud Logan
Agent: Self
Club: Nike

Career highlights: 2-time USA Outdoor champion ('06, '07); 4-time U.S. Indoor WT champion (’03, ’05, ’06, ‘07); 2004 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2001 NCAA Div. II champion

Kruger emphatically demonstrated his men’s hammer throw dominance in the U.S. in 2007 by winning his second consecutive national title and posting the top nine throws by an American that season. He also won his fourth straight indoor title. He ended the 2006 outdoor season owning the top seven hammer throws by an American that year. Kruger finished the 2005 season with four of the top seven hammer throws by Americans in that year.. A young thrower in an event which traditionally favors experienced competitors, Kruger made his first Olympic Team by placing 2nd at the 2004 Olympic Trials, then meeting the Olympic A standard with his personal best throw of 79.26m/260-0 on August 5 in Berea, Ohio, a mark that would have finished fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games...coached by 4-time Olympian Jud Logan, who heads the Ashland Elite club, which also includes women’s Olympic hammer thrower Jackie Jeschelnig and top women’s shot putter Adriane Blewitt. Of Logan, Kruger says, “”It was the biggest compliment in my life when Jud Logan recruited me two years ago [out of Morningside College],” Kruger said “I would never be where I am without him. He is the master of getting you ready to go.”

2008: Runner-up at USA Indoors (24.07m/78-11.75)
2007: USA Outdoor champion (78.10m/256-3)... 9th in qualifying at World Outdoors (73.19m/240-1)...USA Indoor champion (24.05m/78-11)...2nd at Lake Erie Association Championships (71.95m/)...1st at Sioux City Relays (77.11m/253-0)...2nd at Mt. SAC Relays (76.84m/252-1)...ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 78.10m/256-3.

2006: USA Outdoor champion (75.81m/248-9)...USA Indoor champion (23.74m/77-10.75)...1st at Mt. SAC 
(78.52m/257-7)...1st at Bloomington, Ind. (77.98m/257-7)...1st at Columbus 
(77.00m/252-7)...1st at Drake Relays (76.09m/249-7)...ranked #1 in U.S. by 
T&FN...best of 78.52m/257-7.

2005: U.S. Indoor champion 
(23.47m/77-0)...3rd at USA Outdoors (71.48m/234-6)...7th in Group A qualifying 
at World Outdoor Champs (74.37m/244-0......2nd at Calvin 
(75.57m/247-11)...ranked #2 in U.s. by T&FN...best of 75.57m/247-11.

2004: 2nd at Olympic Trials 
(76.02m/249-5) …did not qualify for Olympic final (69.38m/227-7)… met Olympic A 
standard August 5 at Berea (Ohio) Open (79.26m/260-0PR) …2nd in WT at USA 
Indoors (22.56m/74-0.25) …1st in WT at Kent (22.87/75-0.5)…ranked #2 U.S. by T&FN…best of 79.26m/260-0.

2003: USA Indoor WT champion 
(22.25m/73-0) …no mark at USA Outdoors …best of 70.31m/230-8. 

2002: 14th at USA Outdoor 
(64.59m/211-11) … 6th at USA Indoors (19.50m/63-11.75) … best of 68.53m/224-10.

2001: 1st at North Central 
Conference in hammer and discus … NCAA Div. II champion in HT … 19th in HT at 
USA Outdoors … best of 65.66m/215-5 in HT and 56.00m/183-9 in DT.

3/20/08