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| Born | 9 February 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Discus throw, Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus: 62.20m (Lima, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mico Lampinen (born 9 February 2006) is a Finnish athlete who competes in the hammer and discus throw. [1]
Lampinen He trained as a member of KU-58 Vantaa and as a member of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Sports Academy Urhea, coached by Tero Lampinen. He won a silver medal in the hammer throw at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. [2]
He won the Finnish Athletics Championships in the discus throw in June 2024. [3] He was a bronze medalist in the discus throw at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a national under-20 record of 62.20 metres. [4] He also competed in the hammer throw at the championships. [5]
At the Nordic U20 Championships in July 2025, he won the 6kg hammer throw with 73.10m before also winning the 1.75kg discus title. [6] That month, he was selected for the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. [7] He won the silver medal in the hammer throw with a personal best 74.69 metres, to finish behind Armin Szabados of Hungary. [8] [9] [10] He also competed at the championships in the discus throw, qualifying for the final and placing fourth overall. [11] [12]
At 202 centimetres tall, he initially feared he had grown to be too tall for the hammer throw, given historically hammer throwers have had a lower power base, but he stated that he took heart from the performances of Ethan Katzberg and Wojciech Nowicki, who are both taller than the average hammer thrower. In 2025, he committed to attend the University of Southern California in the United States. [12]
