Heikkinen competed for the World Championship bronze in para-athletics – Lounela narrowly missed out on the medals

Marjaana Heikkinen, fifty six, accelerated her collection of prestigious para-athletics medals. Iida Lounela from Helsinki finished fourth within the lengthy bounce.

Marjana Weak has accomplished bronze inside the ladies’s F34 category javelin throw on the World Para Athletics Championships. The medal is Finland’s first within the World Cup competitions held in Paris and Heikkinen’s thirteenth prize competition medal standard.

He cleared 16.Ninety meters and beat Australia Dayna Creesin fourth through six centimeters. China’s Zou Lijuan received the World Championship gold with a opposition file of 20.74. Germany’s Frances Herrmann took silver with a end result of 17.74.

“There became a exertions income. Heart quotes had been excessive whilst the Aussie female threw 16.Eighty four. I idea it changed into going to be horrific,” Heikkinen stated on Yle’s television broadcast.

With his performance, Heikkinen ensured Finland an area in the Paralympics to be contested in Paris next yr.

Helsinki Only 19-12 months-old visually impaired athlete representing Kisa-Veikko Iida Lounela came within seven centimeters of a medal. Lounela completed fourth in the magnificence 12 women’s lengthy bounce. The opposition was gained through Ukraine Oksana Zubkovska with a end result of 578.

Lounela’s result of 517 became best three centimeters short of the Finnish record of 519 within the jumper’s own call. At the World Championships in Paris, Lounela nonetheless has the 200 and four hundred meter races in her program.

In my career I mainly gained medals within the 100 and 2 hundred meters Leo-Pekka Tähti completed fourth in his warmness of the guys’s T54 class 400 meters. He clocked a time of 46.87 and became 11 hundredths of a second in the back of the following vicinity in his facet occasion.

“My guess was true and near the Finnish record. I can’t be disenchanted. Too awful it wasn’t enough for the final inside the time trial. Now I can focus on the hundred,” said Tähti.