page_title: Friendship Games
section_title: Archery
hierarchical_section_title: Friendship Games / Summary / Archery
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Uwe Hohn ADN-ZB Kluge 03.06.1984 Erfurt: 26.DDR-Meisterschaften in der Leichtathletik-DDR-Meister im Speerwurf der Männer wurde Uwe Hohn (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) mit der Weite von 93,80 Metern im 6. Versuch.
context_page_description: The Friendship Games, or Friendship-84, was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
  Although Friendship Games officials denied that the Games were to be a counter-Olympic event to avoid conflicts with the International Olympic Committee, the competition was often dubbed the Eastern Bloc's "alternative Olympics". Some fifty states took part in the competition. While the boycotting countries were represented by their strongest athletes, other states sent their reserve teams, consisting of athletes who failed to qualify for Los Angeles.
context_section_description: The Soviet Union won five out of six possible medals.
caption: Uwe Hohn won the gold medal in javelin throw
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