Aku Partanen

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Aku Partanen
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Personal information
Full nameVeli-Matti Partanen
Born (1991-10-28) 28 October 1991 (age 32)
Lappeenranta, Finland
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) [1]
Weight55 kg (121 lb) [1]
Sport
CountryFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
SportAthletics
Event 50km Race Walk
Achievements and titles
Personal best
  • 20 km: 1:18:22 (2023)

Veli-Matti "Aku" Partanen (born 28 October 1991, in Lappeenranta) is a Finnish racewalker who competes mostly at the 50 kilometres race walk. Partanen's club is Lappeenrannan Urheilumiehet.

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Partanen competed at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, where he was 41st at 50 kilometres. [2] At the 2014 European Championships, in Zürich, Partanen was 18th. His time was 3:52:58. In 2018, he competed in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany. [3] He did not finish his race. [3] In 2019, he competed in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. [4] He did not finish his race. [4]

Partanen's original name was Veli-Matti, but he changed his name to Aku because everyone called him Aku.[ citation needed ]

In 2021, he represented Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where he finished 9th in the men's 50 kilometres walk and set a season best of 3:52:39. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "European Athletics - Athlete: Veli-Matti Partanen". european-athletics.
  2. 1 2 "Veli-Matti Partanen | Profile". www.iaaf.org.
  3. 1 2 "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Men's 50 kilometres walk – Final" (PDF). 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  5. "Athletics - Final Results". Olympics. Archived from the original on 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2021-08-07.