Pirjo Häggman Explained

Birth Date:8 June 1951
Height:1.65m (05.41feet)
Weight:54kg (119lb)
Birth Place:Sotkamo, Finland
Sport:Sprint
Club:Jymy Sotkamo, HKV Helsinki
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Airi Pirjo Maritta Wilmi-Rokkanen (née Wilmi, formerly Häggman; born 8 June 1951) is a retired Finnish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Häggman was a member of the Finnish silver medal 4 × 400 m relay team at the 1974 European Athletics Championships in Rome. She competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. 1976 Häggman finished fourth, missing the bronze medal by 0.01 seconds.[1]

In 1981 Häggman and Venezuelan Flor Isava-Fonseca were the first women to be elected as International Olympic Committee members.[2] [3] She resigned in January 1999 due to the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal.[4] Häggman's ex-husband had been working as a paid consultant for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee during the bidding process.[5]

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175845/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/pirjo-wilmi-haggman-1.html Sports-Reference
  2. http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/The_Olympic_Movement.pdf International Olympic Committee Factsheet, June 2012
  3. Book: Fuller, Linda K.. Female olympians : a mediated socio-cultural and political-economic timeline. Palgrave Macmillan US. 2016. 9781137594815. New York. 41. 966525012.
  4. Web site: Second IOC member quits . BBC Sport . 22 January 1999 . 9 July 2013.
  5. Web site: Scarred by scandal . https://archive.today/20130708231226/http://www.canoe.ca/SlamOlympicScandalArchive/mar28_buffery.html . usurped . July 8, 2013 . Toronto Sun . 28 March 1999 . 9 July 2013.