Silja Lehtinen
Finnish Olympic sailor (born 1985)
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Silja Lehtinen (born 5 November 1985 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor.
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| Nationality | Finnish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 November 1985 Helsinki, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Silja Lehtinen has sailed in two Olympic regattas. In 2008, at the age of 23, she skippered the Finnish team in the Yngling class to an 11th place. In 2012, she participated in Women's Match Race (Elliott 6m) and won a bronze medal with her crew, Silja Kanerva and Mikaela Wulff.[1][2][3]
In 2012 as well, only a month before the Olympic regatta, Lehtinen and her crew won match race world championship title in Gothenburg, Sweden.[4]
Her brother Lauri skippered the Finnish 49er into seventh place at the 2012 Olympic regatta.
As a 15 year old, she won the Byte class World Championship in 2001.[5]
Lehtinen studies medicine at the University of Helsinki.
