Finland DATE OF BIRTH Saturday, 15th April 1961 PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki, Finland EVENT(S): Javelin CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORMANCES: Olympics: 1984 silver Javelin. Worlds: 1983 Gold Javelin. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 1983 World Javelin Champion (result) Women's Javelin Final. European Athletics Championships 1982 1. Anna VEROULI GRE 70.02 2. Antje KEMPE GDR 67.94 3. Sofia SAKORAFA GRE 67.04 4. Tiina LILLAK FIN 66.26 5. Ute RICHTER GDR 65.88 6. Eva HELMSCHMIDT FRG 65.82 Women's Javelin Final. World Championships 1983 1. Tiina Lillak FIN 70.82m 2. Fatima Whitbread GBR 69.14m 3. Anna Verouli GRE 65.72m 4. Tessa Sanderson GBR 64.76m 5. Eva Raduly-Zorgo ROM 63.86m 6. Tuula Laaksalo FIN 62.44m 7. Beate Peters FRG 62.42m 8. Maria Caridad Col-n CUB 62.04m 9. Petra Felke-Meier GDR 62.02m Tiina is pictured above during the Javelin final at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, the place of her birth. She produced a magnificent final round effort of 70.82m to snatch the Gold medal from Britain's Fatima Whitbread. The inset picture shows a delighted Tiina on a lap of glory in front of her hometown crowd. On 29th July 1982 in Helsinki, Tiinna broke the world record with a throw of 72.40m. She retained the record for just over a year before it was broken by Sofia Sakorafa of Greece on 26th September 1982 with a throw of 74.20m. Just 10 months later on 13th June 1983 Tiina broke Sofia's record with a throw of 74.76m on home ground again in Tampere, Finland. These two world records by Tiina were the fist ever to be set by a Finnish woman thrower.