Lars Flaming

Lars Anthony Flaming Lepp (born 27 February 2003) is a Paraguayan javelin thrower. He was the 2024 South American U23 Champion and won the gold medal at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games and 2026 Pan American Championships. He represented Paraguay at the 2025 World Championships

Biography Flaming is from Filadelfia, in the Boquerón Department of the Gran Chaco of western Paraguay. He competed as a multi-event athlete prior to specialising in the javelin throw by 2021. He placed fourth in the javelin throw at the 2023 South American Championships in Athletics in São Paulo, Brazil, in July 2023. He won the gold medal at the 2024 South American U23 Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

In March 2025, he set a new Paraguayan U23 national record with a throw of 79.74 meters, surpassing the previous record set by Victor Fatecha in 2007. In August 2025, he the won the men’s javelin throw at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, with a first throw of 79.05 meters which set a new Junior Pan American record before sealing victory with his sixth and final throw, in which he surpassed his own record with a new personal best of 81.56 metres.

He competed for Paraguay at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, throwing 79.07 metres without advancing to the final.

Flaming won the gold medal at the 2026 Pan American Championships in Athletics in Medellín, with 82.10 metres.