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Finland At The 2009 World Championships In Athletics
Finland competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, 15–23 August 2009. A team of 20 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition. The selected athletes had achieved at least one of the competition's qualifying standards. The team failed to win any medals; defending world champion javelin thrower Tero Pitkämäki managed only a fifth-place finish. (2009-08-03). Team selection ;Track and road events ;Field and combined ev ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suomen Urheiluliitto RY
Finnish Athletics Federation ( fi, Suomen Urheiluliitto ry, abbr. SUL; sv, Finlands Friidrottsförbund rf) is the governing body of athletics in Finland. It was separated from the Finnish Gymnastics and Sports Federation in 1932. Today SUL has 850 member clubs and some 30,000 athletes. It is a member of Finnish Sports Federation which is the main governing body of Sport in Finland. Presidents *Urho Kekkonen 1932–1947 *Lauri Miettinen 1948–1952 * Reino Piirto 1953–1963 * Toimi Tulikoura 1964 *Jukka Uunila 1965–1974 *Yrjö Kokko 1975–1976 *Carl-Olaf Homén 1977–1980 * Pertti Eräkare 1981–1982 *Tapani Ilkka 1983–1990 *Ilkka Kanerva 1991–2005 * Antti Pihlakoski 2006–2012 * Vesa Harmaakorpi 2013–2018 * Sami Itani 2019– External links Official website(in Finnish) Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eemeli Salomäki
Eemeli Niko Antero Salomäki (born 11 October 1987 in Turku) is a Finnish pole vaulter. He competed at the World Junior Championships in 2006 and at the World Championships in 2009 without reaching the final. His personal best vault is 5.60 metres, achieved in August 2009 in Espoo. In the 2010 season he equalled his personal best mark at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, but this mark was not enough to gain him qualification into the final. He focused on the Finnish Elite Games meeting series that summer and placed third overall in the jackpot rankings after winning the Joensuu Joensuu (; krl, Jovensuu; ) is a city and municipality in North Karelia, Finland, located on the northern shore of Lake Pyhäselkä (northern part of Lake Saimaa) at the mouth of the Pielinen River (''Pielisjoki''). It was founded in 1848. The ... meet.Sonninen, A-P (2010-08-22)Spencer takes the Finnish Elite Games jackpot in Joensuu IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-24. Achievements Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merja Korpela
Merja Tuulikki Korpela (born 15 May 1981 in Soini) is a female hammer thrower from Finland. Her personal best throw is 69.56 metres, achieved in July 2009 in Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a .... She finished fourth at the 2000 World Junior Championships. She also competed at the 2002 European Championships, the 2006 European Championships and the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final. Competition record References External links * * 1981 births Living people People from Soini Finnish female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Finland World Athletics Championships athletes for Finland Sportspeople from South Ostrobothnia {{Finland-ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Söderberg
David Söderberg (born 11 August 1979 in Vörå) is a male hammer thrower from Finland. His personal best throw is 78.83 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Lahti. He won the bronze medal at the 2003 Summer Universiade and finished fourth at the 2005 Summer Universiade. He also competed at the European Championships in 2002 and 2006 as well as the 2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ... without reaching the final. Competition record References * 1979 births Living people People from Vörå Finnish male hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Finland World Athletics Championships a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olli-Pekka Karjalainen
Olli-Pekka Karjalainen (born 7 March 1980 in Töysä) is a Finnish former hammer thrower. The 1998 World Junior Champion, Karjalainen is the world junior record holder with 78.33 metres (7.26 kg). His personal best throw is 83.30, achieved in July 2004 in Lahti. European Championships 2006 Karjalainen took his first medal at the 2006 European Championships by throwing 80.84. He finished second, but became the Champion in 2014 as IAAF decided to strip Ivan Tskikhan of Belarus of the gold medal for doping. Karjalainen was awarded with the gold medal in a ceremony arranged at the 2014 Finland-Sweden athletics international in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U .... Achievements References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karjalainen, Olli-Pekk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer Throw
The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consists of a metal ball attached by a steel wire to a grip. The size of the ball varies between men's and women's competitions. History With roots dating back to the 15th century, the contemporary version of the hammer throw is one of the oldest of Olympic Games competitions, first included at the 1900 games in Paris, France (the second Olympiad of the modern era). Its history since the late 1960s and legacy prior to inclusion in the Olympics has been dominated by Europe and Eastern European influence, which has affected interest in the event in other parts of the world. The hammer evolved from its early informal origins to become part of the Scottish Highland games in the late 18th century, where the original version of the event is sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frantz Kruger
Frantz Kruger (born 22 May 1975 in Kempton Park, South Africa) is a South African born Finnish discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2000. He is also a double African champion. His personal best throw of 70.32 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Salon-de-Provence, is the current African record. He was married to Finnish former triple jumper Heli Koivula Kruger (divorced 2016), and received Finnish citizenship in 2007. Kruger has been available to represent Finland by a special permit from the government of IAAF since 20 August 2007. In international discus competition at Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ..., he set a new Finnish discus record, 69.97 metres. Competition record See also * List of eligibility transfers in athletics Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discus Throw
The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiquity, ancient sport, as demonstrated by the fifth-century-BC Myron statue ''Discobolus''. Although not part of the current pentathlon, it was one of the events of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon, ancient Greek pentathlon, which can be dated back to at least 708 BC, and it is part of the modern decathlon. History The sport of throwing the discus traces back to it being an event in the Ancient Olympic Games, original Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. The discus as a sport was resurrected in Magdeburg, Germany, by gymnastics teacher Christian Georg Kohlrausch and his students in the 1870s. Organized men's competition was resumed in the late 19th century, and has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the first modern competition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommi Evilä
Jaakko Tommi Kristian Evilä (born 6 April 1980 in Tampere) is a Finland, Finnish former long jumper. He gained fame following his surprise bronze in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, 2005 Helsinki World Championships, which was Finland's only medal in the championships. He won the bronze medal in a wind assistance, wind-aided 8.25 metre jump. Before the 2005 World Championships he had finished tenth at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics, 1998 World Junior Championships and fourth at the 2005 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, 2005 European Indoor Championships. He then improved his personal best jump to 8.19 metres in August, and finished sixth at the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final, 2005 World Athletics Final. Years troubled by injuries then followed. He did achieve a wind-aided result of 8.41 metres at the 2007 Finland-Sweden athletics international, Finland-Sweden international. In June 2008 he set a Finnish national record of 8.22 metres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
