Michele Fina (javelin thrower)
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| Born | 9 September 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Javelin 79.95 m (Nicosia, 2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Michele Fina (born 9 September 2002) is an Italian javelin thrower. He won the bronze medal at the 2026 European Throwing Cup and the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships.[1]
Biography
Fina is from Fontanafredda, Pordenone.[2] As a member of Nuova Polisportiva Libertas Sacile, Fina set a new Italian national under-16 best in the javelin throw at the age of 14 years-old in 2017, when he threw the 600-gram implement to 66.04 metres to break the previous best was 65.99 set by Valerio Albanesi in 1999.[3]
He later joined Atletica Brugera and began to be trained by the Italian record holder Carlo Sonego. In February 2022, he won the youth title at the Italian Winter Throwing Cup with a throw of 70.76 metres to move to said on the Italian age-group all-time list.[4]
In 2023, Fina moved from Atletica Brugnera to the Army Sports Club while continuing to train with Carlo Sonego. He set a personal best of 75.52 metres in April 2023 in Treviso. Fina won the Italian junior javelin title on 19 June 2023 with a throw of 72.08 metres and represented Italy at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships, placing fourteenth overall. The following month, Fina won the bronze medal at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland, with a personal best of 77.23 metres.[5][2]
In August 2025, he was runner-up to Giovanni Frattini at the Italian Athletics Championships with a throw of 74.35 metres.[6]
In March 2026, Fina won the bronze medal in the javelin throw at the 2026 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus, where he threw the javelin to 79.95 metres, a personal best of more than two metres, to finish behind Germany's Nick Thumm and Simon Wieland of Switzerland.[7]
References
- ^ "Michele Fina". World Athletics. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ a b De Mori, Franco (19 June 2023). "Fina Italian Champion". Fidal.it. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ "Cadet Javelin Throw: Fina 66.04, it's MPI!". Fidal.it. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ De Mori, Franco (27 February 2022). "Saccomano, Fina, Vattolo e Botter". Fidal.it. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
- ^ Villa, Stefano (15 July 2023). "Athletics: Michele Fina lifts the Italian javelin: bronze at the Under-23 European Championships! Double medal in the 10,000m". OA Sport. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Italian Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ Trapnell, Jasmine (15 March 2026). "Thumm soars to javelin victory to close out the 2026 European Throwing Cup". European Athletics. Retrieved 16 March 2026.