{"id":262,"date":"2012-05-28T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/?p=262"},"modified":"2012-05-28T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:00:19","slug":"thorkildsen-aims-at-euro-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/news\/thorkildsen-aims-at-euro-hat-trick","title":{"rendered":"Thorkildsen aims at Euro hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Andreas<\/a>

Andreas Thorkildsen<\/p><\/div>\n

Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen has won the gold medal in his event at the last two European Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n

He will go for his third consecutive continental title this summer in Helsinki, a rare feat in any discipline and one that has only been achieved twice before in the javelin, by Janis Lusis and Steve Backley.<\/p>\n

Thorkildsen will also be competing in the ‘home’ of javelin throwing and is looking to deny Finland’s local hero Tero Pitk\u00e4m\u00e4ki a title on home soil but he is still relishing the challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve had good winter preparations so hopefully things will go well for the Europeans,\u201d Thorkildsen told European Athletics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey (Finnish athletics fans) really like their javelin and that makes it a lot of fun to throw there because they will cheer really loudly for you.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now it’s hard to pick who is going to be dominating at the Europeans. Tero has got a great capacity, I’ve got a pretty decent capacity too. Mattias (Germany’s 2011 world champion Mattias De Zordo) is making it interesting this year, a couple of Czech guys are also making it interesting, so you never know and that’s the fun thing about sports,\u201d added Thorkildsen.<\/p>\n

Thorkildsen also won at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games and he is looking to defend that crown as well in London this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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