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: 2008 Olympic Trials champion; Four-time USA Outdoor champion ('06, '07, ’08. ‘09); Five-time U.S. Indoor WT champion (’03, ’05, ’06, ’07, ‘09); 2004 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2001 NCAA Div. II champion

Kruger’s 2009 season was highlighted by victories at the USA Indoor and Outdoor Championships, and by competing at  a World Outdoor Championships for the third time in his career. Kruger qualified for his second Olympic Team with at the 2008 Olympic Trials with his winning toss of 75.81m/248-9. He 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. 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.”

12/28/09