Suvi Mikkonen

Suvi Mikkonen (born 11 July 1988) is a Finnish taekwondo practitioner.[1][2] Mikkonen is Finland's national champion, three times the Nordic champion (2008, 2010, 2011) and won the European University Championship in 2009. She has competed in the 2009 and 2011 World Championships and the 2008 European Championships. Currently, she is a member of the Finnish National Team and, when in Finland, trains at Budokwai Taekwondo, in the southern city of Turku. She lives permanently in Madrid and trains with her coach and partner, Jesus Ramal, the head Olympic coach for the Finnish National Team.

Mikkonen started Taekwondo training at a gym opened by Chuck Norris at the age of four in Florida, where she moved with her family. Mikkonen moved to Madrid as a teenager, and is studying Sport Sciences at the University of Madrid. She is fluent in Finnish,Spanish and English.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 57 kg defeating the Senegalese Bineta Diedhiou in the first round,[3] but was defeated by eventual silver medalist Hou Yuzhuo of China in the quarterfinals.[4]

References

  1. ↑ London2012.com
  2. ↑ "Suvi Mikkonen" (in Finnish). Finnish Taekwondo Federation. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Women's -57kg Results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "Women's -57kg Results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 September 2012.