Viivi Lehikoinen Explained

Viivi Lehikoinen
Nationality:Finnish
Sport:Athletics
Event:400 metres hurdles
Coach:Laurent Meuwly[1]
Pb:400 m hurdles: 54,40 (2023)
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Birth Date:27 August 1999

Viivi Lehikoinen (born 27 August 1999) is a Finnish athlete.[2] She competed in the women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and at the 2022 World Championships.[3]

Lehikoinen won a gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2016 European U18 Championships. In July 2017, at the age of 17, she won a bronze medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2017 European U20 Championships, breaking the Finnish under-20 record with a time of 56,49.

Personal bests

!Event!Time!Venue!Date
400 metres52,99Tampere, Finland28 August 2021
400 metres hurdles54,40Huelva, Spain6 June 2023

Notes and References

  1. "Meuwly receives Coaching Achievement Award" (press release), World Athletics, 4 December 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  2. Web site: Viivi Lehikoinen . Olympedia . 31 July 2021.
  3. Web site: Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 2 Results . Tokyo 2020 . 31 July 2021 . 30 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210730211439/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-women-s-400m-hurdles-rnd1-000200-.htm . dead .
  4. Web site: Viivi LEHIKOINEN Profile World Athletics. 2022-08-18. worldathletics.org.