Memorie.al/ publishes rare photos of the Merited Master of Sports Ajet Toska, considered the legend of Albanian athletics in the hammer throwing competition, who for 12 years, was the absolute champion of Albania and the champion of the Balkans at the age of 19 year and winner of 14 medals (gold, silver and bronze), in international activities, where with the result 75 m. and 92 cm. reached in 1986 in Tirana, took tenth place in the world, ranking after the great masters from the former Soviet Union, such as Igor Nikulin and Yuri Sedik, or the Bulgarians Tanev and Apostolov graduated from the Leipzig Academy of Sports, which were regarded as world athletics stars in hammer throwing.
Unknown images of the boy from the villages of Mallakastra who spent his childhood in the town of Fushë-Kruja in a poor family with eight children and two working parents, who in 1974 came to Tirana with a wooden suitcase for competing at the School of Sports Volleyball, where while waiting in the grass on the field near the school to give the norms, he tried to throw the ball that he threw at a distance of 9 meters, which attracted the attention of coach Fatmir Dibra did not let him compete for volleyball, telling him to leave home and on September 1st to show up at school to start lessons.
Rare photos of Ajet Toska, whose name for years is held by the 8-year school of the village Sukë where he was declared “Honorary Citizen”, starting from the black field of the school “Adem Gjeli” in Fushë-Krujë with classes sports, in the training facilities and national championships with his coach Mirush Deliallisi, fellow athletes, classmates in Sports Crafts, competitions and international activities in the Olympic stadiums of different countries of Europe and Asia, up to the Spartakiads National team in the central tribune of the National Stadium “Qemal Stafa”, tying the scarf of the spartakiad Enver Hoxha, as well as parading with a flag in hand on top of the squares in the parade on May 1, in front of the leadership tribune on the Boulevard “Dëshmorët e Kombit” , etc./Memorie.al
