Olli-Pekka Karjalainen
Olli-Pekka Karjalainen ( Olli-Pekka Tapio Karjalainen ; born March 7, 1980 in Töysä ) is a former Finnish hammer thrower .
The 1998 junior world champion and 1999 junior European champion in hammer throw took part in the Olympic Games three times ( 2000 in Sydney , 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing ), but missed the final of the first two. 1999 in Seville and 2001 in Edmonton he reached the preliminaries, but could not reach the last three attempts in eleventh and tenth. He achieved this in Helsinki in 2005 when he was fifth in the World Cup.
After he had finished eighth at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , Karjalainen won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , after the repeated Belarusian doping offender Wadsim Dzewjatouski was subsequently disqualified. At the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , he managed to get the gold medal. Here, too, a repeatedly convicted Belarusian doping sinner, this time Iwan Zichan , had to be subsequently disqualified.
At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he finished ninth at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing sixth. In 2009 he was eliminated from qualification at the World Cup in Berlin .
He set his best length of 83.30 m on July 14, 2004 in Lahti .
Olli-Pekka Karjalainen is 1.94 m tall and weighed 115 kg when he was active. He ended his career in 2013.
Web links
- Olli-Pekka Karjalainen in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Olli-Pekka Karjalainen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Three world champions subsequently convicted . Der Tagesspiegel March 8, 2013
- ↑ Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk . IAAF. April 27, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Karjalainen, Olli-Pekka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karjalainen, Olli-Pekka Tapio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish hammer thrower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Töysä |