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http://www.iaaf.org/news/feature/finnish...ican-javel

Yet perhaps much less of a surprise is that it is a man from Finland – the country many regard as the ‘home of the Javelin’ – who played a significant coaching role behind the success of the throwers Julius Yego and Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed from the two aforementioned countries.

Petteri Piironen, who is based at the IAAF-accredited Kuortane Sports Institute in Western Finland, is the man responsible as the principle coach to the Javelin duo who caused quite a stir in the Russian capital.