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Tomas Mikael Järvinen (born 21 October 2005) is a Czech-Finnish multi-event athlete. He won the decathlon at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.[1]
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| Nationality | Czech | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 October 2005 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint, Long jump, Decathlon | ||||||||||||||
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He was born in Czech republic, lived first few years in Finland, but than moved to the Czech Republic when he was four years-old. He played football and tennis as a youngster before focusing on athletics in his teenage years.[2]
He set a world leading U20 indoor score of 5993 points in winning the heptathlon at the Czech Indoor Championships in Prague in February 2024.[3]
He won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in the decathlon, with a championship record of 8425 points. This tally was 10 points lower than Niklas Kaul’s world U20 record moved Jarvinen to second place on the world U20 all-time list. Not only did he win the overall tally, he scored rbe best marks in five out of the ten events, and set personal bests in the discus and 1500 metres.[4][5]
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He has a Finnish father and a Czech mother and has dual citizenship.[6]
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