Pitkamäki to Australia
24.02.2010 World
Tero Pitkamaki is the latest international challenger to compete both at the Sydney Track Classic and Melbourne Track Classic end of the February and early March.
Pitkamaki, Finnish former world champion and Beijing Olympic Games bronze medallist, will take on Australia‘s Beijing Olympic finalist Jarrod Bannister, as he aims to make a return to international competition at the Commonwealth Games in October after a serious elbow injury threatened to derail his career. Bannister, with a personal best of 89.02m and now training under the guidance of former world record-holder Uwe Hohn, said he hoped Pitkamaki would help him to surpass the Commonwealth Games A-qualifying mark of 80m. „It‘s good to have some of the top international guys coming over to compete in Australia, it‘s definitely exciting,“ Bannister said for Athletics Australia.
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