– Thank you, it does taste good, Aki Parviainen responds to the congratulations for his nephew Topi Parviainen’s win in the under-18 javelin gold on Wednesday.
At the age of 15, Topi Parviainen is the under-18 European champion. MVPhotos
- Topi Parviainen’s EC result of 84.52 is a new European record for the U18 age group, and he is only 15 years old.
- World champion Aki Parviainen believes that Topi has full potential to develop into the world’s best javelin thrower.
– You can’t really understand how hard a result it is, Aki Parviainen updates Topi Parviainen A golden arch that carried 84.52 meters.
In the U18 age group, they compete with spears weighing 700 grams. The women’s javelin weighs 600 grams, and the world record is 72.28 Barbora Spotakova on behalf of. Jan Zelezny ME in the men’s 800 gram is 98.48.
Men’s SE 93.09 is named after the 1999 world champion Aki Parviainen. Also his big brother Mika Parviainen – Top’s father – belongs to the 80 meter club.
According to Aki Parviainen, Topi and three years older Battery-big brother’s enthusiasm for javelin throwing has ignited at home in Tuupovaara, where both Aki and Mika and their families live.
– Mika and Seija have been wildly active with the boys, he says, referring to the brothers’ parents.
– By playing and competing, the boys have been able to grow up here in the peace of the countryside.
Surely the uncle who had a wonderful spear career also played the role of an inspiration and role model?
– Maybe some kind. I’ve always told some stories about spear work, Aki Parviainen answers.
Aku threw a 700-gram javelin three years ago with a handsome result: 76.30. The men’s javelin has gone 70.95.
Aki Parviainen takes no credit for coaching the brothers.
– Mika completely takes care of that side. Mostly I’ve sparred a bit and asked for news.
Like Thorkildsen
Aki Parviainen left Seville in the 1999 World Cup, with Greece’s Kostas Gatsioudis (right) second and Czech Jan Zelezny (left) third. Two years later, Parviainen won another World Championship silver. EPA / AOP
Throwing the top pleases Parviainen’s expert eye.
– When you’re 15, of course there’s a lot to improve, but there’s also a lot of good in it. His pitching has always been based on a tremendously hard arm and a wide lever arm, which he knows how to use to his advantage. It’s an exceptionally good hand even for a javelin thrower, he marvels.
– Technically, at the end of the throw and in the use of the support leg, it’s an awful lot the same as With Andreas Thorkildsen. The support leg doesn’t always click into place, but in this last throw, Topi did get his foot under it.
In the future, only the sky can be the limit.
– In general, with a young athlete, you shouldn’t make terrible predictions, and javelin throwing is such a sport that you never know when the last throw will be, Parviainen chimes in and reminds Topi of the hand problems that plagued Topi a couple of years ago.
– But of course a huge talent, he admits.
– After all, it has the potential to be the best in the world one day. I don’t see any obstacle.
Despite his young age, Topi Parviainen has also invested in physical training for several years – as Aki Parviainen thinks it should be, if and when the top of the world is the goal.
– It is goal-oriented work and long-lasting, versatile training day after day.
According to Parviainen, the risk of injury inherent in the raw sport is only acceptable.
– All top throwers are hard at training. It either lasts or it doesn’t, but that’s what it takes.
Jimi Pitkämäki
Tero Pitkämäki 8-year-old Jimmy-boy threw an arc of 32.36 meters at Seinäjoki at the end of May. The result is quoted as the best throw of a seven-year-old with a 400-gram javelin by a website that compiles the results of young athletes from 55 countries.
Parviainen sees that in this case too there is an advantage in the fact that the boy is of the spear family.
– When there is knowledge of the sport in the family, you can guide them to do some things under the guise of play. The younger you learn the right technique, that’s an advantage.