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Tuula Tenkanen
Personal information
Full name	Tuula Tenkanen
Nationality	Finland
Born	11 August 1990 (age 33); Espoo, Finland
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sailing career
Class	Sailboard
Club	Esbo Segelförening
Coach	Minna Aalto

Tuula Tenkanen (born 11 August 1990 in Espoo) is a Finnish sailor, who specialized in one-person dinghy (Laser Radial) class.^[1]^[2] She represented her nation Finland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Career edit

She trained at Espoo Sailing Club (Finnish: Esbo Segelförening) throughout most of her sporting career under her longtime coach and mentor Minna Aalto.^[4] As of September 2014, Tenkanen was ranked sixth in the world for the one-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation, following her successes at the European and ISAF World Championships.^[5]^[6]

Tenkanen qualified for the Finnish squad in the newly introduced Laser Radial class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by placing twelfth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand.^[7]^[8] She posted a net score of 128 points to achieve a creditable twenty-second position in a fleet of twenty-eight sailors, edging out Belarus' Tatiana Drozdovskaya by a mere, thirteen-point gap on the tenth leg.^[9]^[10]

Tenkanen sought to compete for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but lost the slot to her sailing rival Sari Multala, who later finished seventh in the same class. Two years later, at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain, Tenkanen delivered her best career record with a fourth-place finish in the Laser Radial class to secure a spot on the Finnish sailing team for her second Olympic bid in Rio de Janeiro.^[6]^[11]

She competed at the 2018 ISAF Sailing World Championships, and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[12]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c "NBC Olympics Athlete Profile: Tuula Tenkanen". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tuula Tenkanen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
^ "Sailing TENKANEN Tuula". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
^ "Fin dag för Tuula Tenkanen" [Nice day for Tuula Tenkanen] (in Swedish). Hufvudstadsbladet. 11 June 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
^ Anderson, Gary (16 April 2014). "World's best to gather in Hyères for final sailing World Cup event of season". Inside the Games. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b Airio, Iina (17 September 2014). "Tuula Tenkanen purjehti Suomelle toisen maapaikan" [Tuula Tenkanen grabs the second spot for Finland] (in Finnish). Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
^ "Tuula Tenkanen Pekingiin – Sari Multala jäi rannalle" [Tuula Tenkanen goes to Beijing – Sari Multala stays on the coast] (in Finnish). Ilta-Sanomat. 21 July 2008. Archived from the original on September 22, 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
^ "Tuula Tenkanen purjehtii Pekingissä" [Tuula Tenkanen flies to Beijing] (in Finnish). Uusi Suomi. 20 July 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
^ "Women's Laser Radial". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
^ "Tenkanen olympiadebyytiksi kirjattiin 22. ja Colluran 29. sija" [Olympians Tenkanen finished 22nd, while Collura placed 29th] (in Finnish). Yle TV1. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
^ "Tuula Tenkanen varmisti Suomelle purjehduksen toisen maapaikan" [Tuula Tenkanen secured the second place in the lap of sailing to Finland] (in Finnish). Sport.fi. 19 September 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
^ "Tokio 2020: Suomen joukkueen olympiapaikat, karsintojen aikataulut ja kisoihin valitut urheilijat". mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2021-04-11.