Maija Tīruma

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Maija Tīruma

Personal information

Born

November 28, 1983 (age 30)
Riga, Latvia

Medal record

Luge
World Championships
Bronze	2008 Oberhof	Mixed team
Bronze	2009 Lake Placid	Mixed team
European Championships
Gold	2008 Cesana	Mixed team

Maija Tīruma (born November 28, 1983 in Riga) is a Latvian luger who has competed since the 2000. She won two bronze medals in the mixed team relay event at the FIL World Luge Championships (2008, 2009).

Tīruma also won a gold medal in the mixed team relay event at the 2008 FIL European Luge Championships in Cesana, Italy and finished seventh in the women's singles event at those same championships.

Competing in three Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of ninth in the women's singles event at Vancouver in 2010.

References

2002 luge women's singles results
2006 luge women's singles results
FIL-Luge profile
Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived October 15, 2012)

v t e European champions in mixed team relay luge

Six per team	1988: West Germany Georg Hackl Johannes Schettel Kerstin Langkopf Veronika Bilgeri Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger 1990: East Germany Jens Müller René Friedl Susi Erdmann Sylke Otto Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch 1992: Germany Georg Hackl René Friedl Susi Erdmann Sylke Otto Yves Mankel Thomas Rudolph 1994: Italy Armin Zöggeler Norbert Huber Gerda Weissensteiner Natalie Obkircher Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber 1996: Germany Jens Müller Georg Hackl Jana Bode Susi Erdmann Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt 1998: Germany Jens Müller Karsten Albert Susi Erdmann Silke Kraushaar Stefan Krausse Jan Behrendt

Four per team	2000: Germany Georg Hackl Sylke Otto Patric Leitner Alexander Resch 2002: Germany Georg Hackl Silke Kraushaar Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller 2004: Germany Jan-Armin Eichhorn Silke Kraushaar Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller 2006: Germany David Möller Silke Kraushaar Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller

Four per team as relay	2008: Latvia Mārtiņš Rubenis Maija Tīruma Andris Šics Juris Šics 2010: Latvia Anna Orlova Mārtiņš Rubenis Andris Šics Juris Šics 2012: Russia Tatiana Ivanova Albert Demchenko Vladislav Yuzhakov Vladimir Makhnutin 2014: Russia Natalia Khoreva Albert Demchenko Vladislav Yuzhakov Vladimir Makhnutin

Persondata
Name	Tīruma, Maija
Alternative names
Short description	Luger
Date of birth	November 28, 1983
Place of birth	Riga, atvian SSR
Date of death
Place of death

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