After graduating from secondary school in Lappeenranta, Piili moved to the town of Jyväskylä in Central Finland to train. She won her first World Championship in 2001 at a competition held in Agadir, Morocco. While in Morocco for that competition, she consumed bacteria-tainted food and developed an infection in her back that impeded her training for a period. She recovered and proceeded to win the 2004 World Championship in Adelaide, South Australia, the 2005 World Championship in Ghent, Belgium, and the 2006 World Championship in Rotterdam, Netherlands.[2][3][4]
In addition to her four World Championships, Piili is a four-time winner of the European Championship and a five-time winner of the Finnish Championship, and holds a total of fourteen World and European Championship medals.[1][5]
In 2004, as the "most successful representative of Sports Aerobics", Piili was selected as "Aerobic athlete of the year" by the Finnish Sports Federation. She almost won the title of top Finnish athlete overall, but lost to the alpine skier Tanja Poutiainen.[6]
Piili has appeared twice on the Finnish game show Kymppitonni.[7] She also did a segment on the Finnish television show Fit 4 You in which she kickbikes up Paloheinä hill in Helsinki.[8]
She currently still lives in Jyväskylä, Central Finland.[8]
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