“You Tube Man” Julius Yego on a mission to complete.
King of Africa Javelin, want to stamp his Authority in Rio Games
Throwing Beats Running-Yego Says
Julius
Yego the only Kenyan to date to have won an field event is a man on a mission, with
a throw of 92.72m during Beijing Championship which he won a gold medal, Yego
will be looking forward to show the world that the throw at Beijing was not a
fluke but a reality.
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| Julius Yego |
“YouTube
man” as he is fondly known in Kenya, Yego has being a one army man. Forget the Hollywood
Movies where you have a one man army destroying a whole army battalion, Yego
has shown with pure determinations you can achieve the impossible.
Kenya
is known for middle and long distance runners, even though back in late 60s and
early 70s, Kenya had great runners in 400m.
Thus
when Yego started showing interest in javelin, most of his workmate (He is a
police officer), thought he was out of his mind, as he comes from a community
that is well known for great athletics.
This
was why no matter what he tried doing; he could not get any assistance on how
to train like a javelin thrower.
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| Julius Yego |
"I
do not have a coach, my motivation comes from within. Training without a coach
is not an easy thing... I watched YouTube and it really paid off for me, to see
the training techniques and skills they are using.", he told CNN’s Paul
Gittings
This
was after her started making his presence felt in 2013, a year after he
qualified for London Olympic
The
self-taught Yego has earned his first national call up in 2010 and threw a
personal best of 74.51 m to take the bronze medal at the 2010 African
Championships in Athletics, which was held in Nairobi.
After
two months of training at the IAAF-accredited centre in Kuortane, Finland, Yego
returned to Kenya in April 2012 and threw a new record of 79.95 m. This was
within the Olympic "B" standard for the event and gained him the prospect
of becoming the first Kenyan person to compete in the javelin at the Olympics.
Yego
won the javelin at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, beating the reigning Olympic
champion, Keshorn Walcott, with a distance of 83.87 m.He is the first Kenyan
athlete to win a Commonwealth title in a field event.
He went on to win a
second gold later that summer at the African Championships, throwing a season
best 84.72 m and defeating world leader Ihab Abdelrahman El-Sayed of Egypt.
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| Julius Yego |
Through
his rise, he has seen the other side of officiating when he competed in Britain
and won at the British Grand Prix in Birmingham, he overtook Veselý in the last
round with a massive throw of 91.39 m; the throw was ruled out on basis of a
narrow sector foul, but that was later overturned after his coach requested a
re-measurement of the sector angle, the original sector was found to not have
been wide enough and the ruling was overturned. Yego's throw was a new African record
and the best in the world since 2006.
Thus
he winning a gold medal at Beijing was a process he had started and it seems
the time has arrived for him to win that gold medal that is a dream for any sportsman/
woman.
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