Lynda Blutreich

Lynda Blutreich was a javelin thrower who competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Internationally Blutreich also competed for the USA at the 1997 and 1999 World Championships, the 1995 and 1999 Pan American Games, and the 1998 Goodwill Games. She won USA titles three times in the javelin throw. She was ranked in the top 10 in the US from 1993-2001, ranking #1 in 1999-2000.

Blutreich attended college at the University of North Carolina. She finished second in the 1992 NCAA Championships in the javelin, and then as a senior in 1993, placed sixth, both under her maiden name of Lynda Lipson. She won six ACC titles while at UNC.

Blutreich became a coach, in charge of the throwers at Duke University, beginning in 1998. Her husband, Brian Blutreich, competed at the 1992 Olympics in the discus throw and later coached throwers at UNC. Lynda Blutreich is an accomplished photographer and displays her efforts at Art of the Olympians.