Kara Winger reveals torn ACL suffered at Iron Wood Invitational last Saturday...

In an Instagram post, Vancouver native Kara Winger (left/photo by Paul Merca) revealed that on her winning throw at Saturday's Iron Wood Throws Invitational in Rathdrum, Idaho, she partially tore her left anterior cruciate ligament, the same one that she injured at the 2012 US Olympic Trials in Eugene.

The Skyview HS/Vancouver grad won the women's javelin Saturday with a throw of 211-5 (64.44m), throwing twice over 64 meters (210-0).

After consulting with the medical team at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, an MRI of the knee showed a partial team of the ACL.

She will have cadaver graft (allograft) surgery as soon as possible, and begin the road to rehabilitating the knee.

At the 2012 US Olympic Trials in Eugene, she tore her ACL in the fourth round, and passed her final two throws of the competition, in which she ultimately finished second, breaking a streak of four straight national titles. In the mixed zone afterwards, she told reporters that she hyperextended her knee.

Winger went to London and competed with a large brace on the left leg, throwing 184-5 (56.23m) in the qualifying round. She tweeted afterwards that what she initially thought was a hyperextension of the knee at the Trials was indeed a torn ACL.

In 2013, Winger missed competing in her only major championship meet, as she could not achieve the Moscow world championships qualifying standard of 203-5 (62.00m).

Winger is currently the only American to hold the 2020NE Olympic Games qualifying standard of 210-0 (64.00m), which she achieved in winning the Pan Am Games title last year in Lima, Peru, where she threw 213-0 (64.92m).

Courtesy of her Instagram account, here's her announcement:

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I can’t promise not to scream-cry a few more times, and especially after surgery, but a second ACL tear gets a little easier to face each day. This is when having coaches who are my close friends first is an even bigger blessing than I had already counted it for. Alternating sobs with laughter on the phone with both of them so far has given me even more confidence in us than I already had. Biggest shoutout to Russ, who is my reasonable comforter in everything, and more than proved his ACL post-op skills back when he was still merely my boyfriend. 🥰 . . #daybyday #aclround2 #aclgraftfailure #kneesurgery #kneesamiright

A post shared by Kara Winger (@karathrowsjav) on Aug 6, 2020 at 7:22pm PDT

NOTE: Iron Wood Throws Center contributed to this report.

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