Sanni Utriainen
Personal information | |||||||||
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Born | Nokia, Finland | 5 February 1991||||||||
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||
Sport | |||||||||
Country | ![]() | ||||||||
Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||
Club | Nokian Urheilijat Tampereen Pyrintö | ||||||||
Coached by | Esa Utriainen Tero Järvenpää | ||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||
Personal best | Javelin: 63.03 (2015) | ||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 10 August 2015 |
Sanni Marja Anniina Utriainen (born 5 February 1991) is a Finnish javelin thrower. She won gold at the 2010 World Junior Championships and competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Utriainen was born in
At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Moncton Utriainen won gold, throwing a personal best 56.69 m on her final attempt to overtake Latvia's Līna Mūze by five centimetres.[4] Later that summer she won gold at the Finnish championships in Kajaani, throwing 56.29 m for her first (and, as of 2015[update], only) national senior title; she also won at the Finland-Sweden Athletics International, setting a new personal best of 57.26 m.[3]
In the following years Utriainen's results stagnated; although she improved her personal best in each of 2011, 2012 and 2013, the improvements were only minor, and she didn't reach the international elite.
Utriainen broke 60 metres for the first time in June 2015 in Lappeenranta, throwing 60.08 m.[7] At the 2015 national championships in early August she only managed 57.59 m and placed second behind Oona Sormunen, but the following week she threw 63.03 m in Kuortane, improving her personal best by almost three metres and exceeding the qualifying standard for the World Championships in Beijing.[5][8]
Coaching
Utriainen is coached by her father Esa.[9] Former javelin thrower Tero Järvenpää became her secondary coach in 2015.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Sanni Utriainen Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ Esa Utriainen at Tilastopaja (in Finnish) (registration required)
- ^ a b c d e Sanni Utriainen at Tilastopaja (in Finnish) (registration required)
- International Association of Athletics Federations. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ a b c Luikku, Susanna (1 August 2015). "Sanni Utriainen: Kisarajasta ei auta tehdä apinaa". Apu (in Finnish). Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- Yleisradio. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "Sanni Utriainen viskasi yli 60 metriä!" (in Finnish). MTV3. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ Visuri, Roope (8 August 2015). "Hurja keihästulos Kuortaneella – MM-raja komeasti puhki" (in Finnish). Yleisradio. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "Esa Utriainen keihäsvalmentajaksi Qatariin" (in Finnish). MTV3. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ Holopainen, Pekka (1 August 2015). "Pekingiin vai ei? Utriaisen kisapaikasta senttipeliä". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the original on August 22, 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.