About Matti Sippala
Matti Kalervo Sippala was a Finnish athlete. His main event was the javelin throw, in which he won the silver medal at both the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1934 European Championships, but he was also a good pentathlete, breaking the unofficial world record in 1931. Sippala defeated javelin world record holder Matti Järvinen at the Finnish Olympic tryouts in 1932, throwing 70.02. At that year's European Championships in Turin he won another silver medal with 69.97 m, again behind Järvinen who broke his own world record. He won silver in the decathlon at the 1930 Finnish championships, but never reached the international elite in that event.
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