French long jumper Salim Sdiri was not seriously injured despite being impaled by a javelin at a Golden League meeting in Rome, the stadium announcer said on Friday. The incident occurred midway through the evening when Finn Tero Pitkamaki slipped at the end of his run-up, hurling the javelin to the left of the landing area and spearing Sdiri in his right side as he crouched in the long jump warm-up section.