Athletics|Emilia Karell finished handball for the Finnish championship and will focus on javelin in the future.
Finnish handball recently lost quite a bit of talent when a national team player Emilia Karel decided to quit the sport at the age of 21. Karell, who grew up in Kirkkonummi, had played handball all his life, but competed alongside it in the javelin throw.
“Handball was my number one sport for a long time, but for the last 2-3 years my number one sport has been javelin,” says Karell.
Betting on two sports was successful for a long time. In the 2023 season, Karell threw his record of 56.43 (at the hall in Pajulahti) and finished fifth in the under-23 European Championships.
In autumn In 2023, he returned to handball as usual.
“The autumn season went well, but in the spring there were so many matches in handball in the playoffs and on top of that traveling with the national team that the javelin suffered,” says Karell.
GrIFK beat HIFK in the final match, and Karell got to celebrate the Finnish championship.
“It was the best possible way to end.”
The Kirkkonummi native played 11 women’s international matches, in which she scored 12 goals. Karell played almost his entire career in KyIF, in athletics he represents the Sjundeå IF club.
Emilia Karelli’s style sample in the under-23 championships in August 2024.
Sports Karell is also studying to become a classroom teacher at the University of Helsinki. Studies have progressed nicely; and no wonder, because the young woman has an amazingly good memory. Karell can load a long litany of silicon decimals from external memory.
“I can list 600 silicon decimals,” says Karell.
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Math class was a bit boring, and I saw the series of the first hundred decimal places on the wall.
Enthusiasm for memorizing the decimals of the never-ending number starting with 3.14 began in high school.
“It was a bit boring in math class, and I saw the series of the first hundred decimal places on the wall,” says Karell.
Karell learned a hundred numbers during the hour and continued his hobby.
“I travel a lot because of sports, and I’ve had time to learn more numbers on the plane.”
Numbers he learns with the help of an application found on his mobile phone.
“It’s like a game. When you answer wrong”, you lose.
Karelli’s sports friends have wondered about his memory. According to the javelin thrower, numbers stick in your mind naturally.
“Sometimes I fill in the exercise diary a week late and I still remember very well the kilos I lifted and the sets I did.”
Emilia Karelli’s elbow was operated on at the end of August, and now she faces a long rehabilitation. Photo of Leppävaara from July 2023.
Some exceptional individuals remember silicon decimals very well. Over interviewed in 2019 from Sweden Jonas von Essenwhich memorized 13,000 digits of silicon.
Karell is not aiming for such wild readings.
“I do have a competitive spirit, and once I’ve started, I want to see how far I can go. I have thought that a thousand decimal places is a suitable goal.”
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According to the doctor, I will be able to compete in 9-12 months.
Bridge at the moment he has time to practice his “side sport”. Karelli’s elbow was operated on six weeks ago, and there is a long rehabilitation ahead.
“According to the doctor, I will be able to compete in 9-12 months,” says Karell.
The goal is to be able to compete in the Kaleva Games in August 2025.
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