Tero Pitkämäki

Tero Pitkämäki is a retired Finnish javelin thrower from the village of Ahonkylä in Ilmajoki, who took up the event at the age of eight after watching Finnish javelin medals at the 1991 World Championships. His personal best of 91.53 metres, set in 2005, ranks him twelfth on the all-time list. He won the world title at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka with a throw of 90.33 metres on his last attempt, and that year he was named European Athlete of the Year and Finnish Sportsman of the Year. He finished eighth at the 2004 Olympics and took his first Diamond League title in 2015. He retired in October 2019 after a knee ligament injury, bringing forward a plan to finish at the 2020 Olympics.