Mico Lampinen
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| Born | 9 February 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Discus throw, Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus: 62.20m (Lima, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mico Lampinen (born 9 February 2006) is a Finnish athlete who competes in the hammer and discus throw.[1]
Career
Lampinen He trained as a member of KU-58 Vantaa and as a member of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Sports Academy Urhea, coached by Tero Lampinen. He won a silver medal in the hammer throw at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.[2]
He won the Finnish Athletics Championships in the discus throw in June 2024.[3] He was a bronze medalist in the discus throw at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a national under-20 record of 62.20 metres.[4] He also competed in the hammer throw at the championships.[5]
At the Nordic U20 Championships in July 2025, he won the 6kg hammer throw with 73.10m before also winning the 1.75kg discus title.[6] That month, he was selected for the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland.[7] He won the silver medal in the hammer throw with a personal best 74.69 metres, to finish behind Armin Szabados of Hungary.[8][9][10] He also competed at the championships in the discus throw, qualifying for the final and placing fourth overall.[11][12]
Personal life
At 202 centimetres tall, he initially feared he had grown to be too tall for the hammer throw, given historically hammer throwers have had a lower power base, but he stated that he took heart from the performances of Ethan Katzberg and Wojciech Nowicki, who are both taller than the average hammer thrower. In 2025, he committed to attend the University of Southern California in the United States.[12]
References
- ^ "Mico Lampinen". World Athletics. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ^ "Banská Bystrica 2022: Mico Lampinen opened Finland's medal tally with a hammer throw silver". olympiakomitea.fi. 26 July 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "Finnish Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ^ "Topic and Tumba triumph on the final day of the World U20 Championships". European Athletics. 1 September 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "World Athletics U20 Chanpionships". World Athletics. 27 August 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ^ Mills, Steven (28 July 2025). "10 days to Tampere 2025! Hallberg Hossain and Lampinen impress at Nordic U20 Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ^ "Final entries published for 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships". European Athletics. 29 July 2025. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ "Great hammer final! Mico Lampinen takes silver, Aatu Kangasniemi takes bronze". yle.fi. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "Yle: Finland secures best U20 athletics medal haul in decades". Helsinki Times. 11 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ a b "Mico Lampinen, 19, thought he was too tall to be a hammer thrower – Friday's goal is a medal celebration". ilkkapohjalainen.fi. 7 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.