Aku Partanen

Aku Partanen
Personal information
Born (1991-10-28) 28 October 1991
Lappeenranta, Finland
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)[1]
Sport
Country  Finland
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 50km Race Walk

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.

Partanen competed at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, where he was 41th at 50 kilometres.[2] At the 2014 European Championships, in Zürich, Partanen was 18th. His time was 3.52.58.

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

Records

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=p/athlete=152560-partanen-veli-matti/index.html
  2. 1 2 http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/finland/veli-matti-partanen-236225#personal-bests
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