Merja Rantanen

{{short description|Finnish orienteering competitor}} {{MedalTableTop | World Orienteering Championships 2010 - relay 10.jpg | 220px | Rantanen at WOC 2010 | medals = {{MedalSport | Women's orienteering }} {{MedalCountry | {{FIN}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalGold | 2008 Olomouc | Relay }} {{MedalGold | 2010 Trondheim | Relay }} {{MedalGold | 2011 Savoie | Relay }} {{MedalSilver | 2015 Inverness | Middle }} {{MedalBronze | 2009 Miskolc | Relay }} {{MedalBronze | 2013 Sotkamo | Middle }} {{MedalBronze | 2016 Strömstad | Relay }} {{MedalBronze | 2017 Tartu | Relay }} {{MedalCompetition | European Championships }} {{MedalSilver | 2008 Ventspils | Middle }} {{MedalSilver | 2010 Primorsko | Relay }} {{MedalSilver | 2012 Falun | Relay }} {{MedalBronze | 2008 Ventspils | Relay }} }}

'''Merja Rantanen''' (born 7 December 1980)<ref name="ssl-mr">{{in lang|fi}} [http://www.ssl.fi/SSL/sslweb.nsf/sp?Open&cid=UrheilijaProfiili&id=9DACB59D7270584CC225712D0044C0E8 Profile: Merja Rantanen] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720193214/http://www.ssl.fi/SSL/sslweb.nsf/sp?Open&cid=UrheilijaProfiili&id=9DACB59D7270584CC225712D0044C0E8 |date=2011-07-20 }} – ''Suomen Suunnistusliitto'' (Retrieved on July 7, 2008)</ref> is a Finnish orienteering competitor. She received a silver medal in the middle distance at the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils.<ref name=eoc-2008-middle>[http://www.eoc2008.lv/results/middlef/WA.HTM EOC – Middle Final – IOF, LOF. Ventspils, Latvia – 31.05.08] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602221417/http://www.eoc2008.lv/results/middlef/WA.HTM |date=2008-06-02 }} (Retrieved on June 4, 2008)</ref> She also participated on the Finnish team (with Katri Lindeqvist and Minna Kauppi) that achieved a bronze medal in the championship relay.<ref name=eoc-2008-relay-women>[http://www.eoc2008.lv/results/relay/WOMEN.HTM EOC – Relay – IOF, LOF. Ventspils, Latvia – 1.06.08 – Relay Women] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603222256/http://www.eoc2008.lv/results/relay/WOMEN.HTM |date=2008-06-03 }} (Retrieved on June 4, 2008)</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rantanen, Merja}} Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:Finnish female orienteers Category:Finnish foot orienteers Category:World Orienteering Championships medalists Category:Competitors at the 2005 World Games Category:21st-century Finnish sportswomen