Pinja Kärhä
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| Born | 20 March 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Pinja Kärhä (born 20 March 2007) is a Finnish hammer thrower.[1]
Biography
Kärhä won the bronze medal at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, with a throw of 66.07 metres.[2][3][4]
In June 2026, she set a personal best of 70.73 metres at the Lahti GP competition in Finland.[5][6] Competing at the 2026 World Athletics U20 Championships in Eugene, USA, she qualified for the final with the best throw in her qualifying group with 67.51m metres, before winning the silver medal in the final behind Clara Hegemann of Germany.[7][8]
References
- ↑ "Pinja Kärhä". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
- ↑ "Van Daalen completes throws double at Tampere 2025". European Athletics. 9 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
- ↑ "Tapio Nevalainen: Kärhä gained confidence and was overjoyed with the medal: "It was amazing to have so many friends and family cheering me on"". Yleisuruheli.fi . 9 August 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "WU20 Oregon 26 preview: throws". World Athletics. 3 August 2026. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Pinja Kärhä, 19, topped the world hammer throw statistics". hs.fi. 9 June 2026. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "World Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 7 August 2026. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
- ↑ "Brown breaks North American U20 record on third morning in Oregon". World Athletics. 7 August 2026. Retrieved 8 August 2026.