The 400 gram has flown 32.36 meters this season.
Tero Pitkämäki ended his career in 2019 and became a coach the following year. Jussi Saarinen / AOP
Jimi Pitkämäki threw a javelin 32.36 meters at the end of May in Seinäjoki. The result is listed as the best throw by a seven-year-old with a 400-gram javelin on a website that compiles the results of young athletes from 55 countries.
However, we cannot talk about a world record. More officially, ME results for young people are only recorded in the U18 age group.
Jimi was the first to tell about Pitkämäki’s long arches Evening Newsto whom the father Tero Pitkämäki told about his son’s javelin success.
Tero Pitkämäki is a javelin throw world champion and a seven-time medalist, mother Niina Kelo multiple heptathlon Finnish champion.
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In the historical list of nine-year-old boys of the Finnish yu results website Tilastopaja, Pitkämäki’s result is ranked 27th. Kimmo Kinnusen result of 44.90 from 1977.
Jimi, who turned eight years old in June, also showed off his strong throwing hand last week in Pihtiputaa. On Thursday, he won the P9 series of the javelin carnival with a result of 31.43, on Saturday he won the P9 series of the camp competition with a result of 31.41.
Jimi Pitkämäki was at the airport to meet his father after the World Championships in Beijing in the summer of 2015. Jenni Gästgivar