Julius Yego
Summary
- Kenyan javelin-thrower
- He won the gold medal at the World Championships in 2015 and in 2014 won gold at the commonwealth games. He also won silver at the 2016 olympics.
Details
- He learned how to do this without a coach, from Youtube.
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Kenyan javelin-thrower Julius Yego won the gold medal at the World Championships in Beijing. There would be nothing particularly interesting in this story except that he learned how to perfect his technique without a coach, and instead learned from YouTube videos.232 Achieving such a feat without all of the resources that world-class javelin-throwers usually have demonstrates how capable and determined Yego is as an athlete.