Akilles Jarvinen

Akilles Jarvinen
Akilles Järvinen, 1928
Full name	Akilles "Aki" Eero Johannes Järvinen
nation	Finland
birthday	September 19, 1905
place of birth	Jyväskylä ,  Finland
date of death	March 7, 1943
Place of death	Tampere , Finland
Career
discipline	Decathlon , 400 meter hurdles
Best performance	see table
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Amsterdam 1928 Decathlon silver Los Angeles 1932 Decathlon  European championships silver Turin 1934 400 meter hurdles

Akilles "Aki" Eero Johannes Järvinen (born September 19, 1905 in Jyväskylä , † March 7, 1943 in Tampere ) was a Finnish athlete who was successful in the decathlon and over 400 meter hurdles in the late 1920s and in the first half of the 1930s was. He won three silver medals.

He was the son of discus throwing Olympic champion Verner Järvinen and the older brother of spear throwing Olympic champion Matti Järvinen . Akilles and Matti Järvinen are the only brothers in the history of athletics who simultaneously (1930–1932) held a world record: Akilles in the decathlon, Matti in the javelin . Akilles would have become Olympic champion like his brother - if the rating introduced in 1950 had already applied in 1928. According to this evaluation, Akilles Järvinen would have had 150 points in 1928 and 120 points in 1932 over Paavo Yrjölä and Jim Bausch respectively .

Akilles Järvinen was only 37 years old. He was killed in the crash of a PY-37 that was on a training flight with him as co-pilot.

successes

• VIII. Olympic Games in Paris 1928 : SILVER with 7932 points behind his compatriot Paavo Yrjölä with 8053 points and in front of the American Ken Doherty with 7707 points.
• World record with 8255 points on July 20, 1930 in Viipuri (improvement of Paavo Yrjölä's two-year-old record by 202 points; the record lasted 2 years); a few days later, brother Matti Järvinen threw the first of his 10 javelin world records
• IX. 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles : SILVER with 8292 points (1950 score: 6707 points) behind the American Jim Bausch with 8462 points (1950 score: 6588 points) and ahead of the German Wolrad Eberle with 8031 ​​points.
• European Championships 1934 in Turin : SILVER over 400 meter hurdles in 53.7 s behind the German Hans Scheele in 53.2 s and in front of the Greek Christos Mantikos in 54.9 s.

He had to withdraw his registration for the 10th Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 because of food poisoning.

Top performances

discipline	power
100 m	10.9 s
200 m	21.9 s
400 m	49.0 s
1500 m	4: 47.0 min
110 m hurdles	15.2 s
200 m hurdles	25.4 s
400 m hurdles	53.7 s
high jump	1.80 m
Pole vault	3.60 m
Long jump	7.12 m
Triple jump	14.32 m
Shot put	14.10 m
Discus throwing	36.95 m
Javelin	63.25 m

Web links

• Akilles Järvinen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )