Silja Lehtinen

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'''Silja Lehtinen''' (born 5 November 1985 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor.

Silja Lehtinen has sailed in two Olympic regattas. In 2008, at the age of 23, she skippered the Finnish team in the Yngling class to an 11th place. In 2012, she participated in Women's Match Race (Elliott 6m) and won a bronze medal with her crew, Silja Kanerva and Mikaela Wulff.<ref>{{cite web |title=Finland wins women's match racing Olympic bronze. |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A1-7bb8450584f842cba2150f9ee7418a96.html |publisher=AP Worldstream |date=11 August 2012 |access-date=19 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103021543/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A1-7bb8450584f842cba2150f9ee7418a96.html |archive-date=3 January 2013|via=HighBeam Research}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/lehtinen-silja-1018285/ |title=Silja Lehtinen London 2012 Summer Olympics |website=london2012.com |publisher=London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=19 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817033711/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/lehtinen-silja-1018285/ |archive-date=17 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/biog.php?memberid=42723 |title=Sailor Biography: Silja Lehtinen |website=www.sailing.org |publisher=World Sailing |access-date=19 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816005010/http://www.sailing.org/biog.php?memberid=42723}}</ref>

In 2012 as well, only a month before the Olympic regatta, Lehtinen and her crew won match race world championship title in Gothenburg, Sweden.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sailweb.co.uk/matchrace/36/silja-lehtinen-takes-womens-matchrace-world-title |title=Silja Lehtinen takes Womens Matchrace World title |publisher=www.sailweb.co.uk |date= |accessdate=19 August 2012 |archive-date=16 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616032839/https://www.sailweb.co.uk/matchrace/36/silja-lehtinen-takes-womens-matchrace-world-title |url-status=live}}</ref>

Her brother Lauri skippered the Finnish 49er into seventh place at the 2012 Olympic regatta.

As a 15 year old, she won the Byte class World Championship in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |title=News & Features: Lehtinen Wins In New Jersey |url=http://www.sailing.org/news/13779.php |website=www.sailing.org |publisher=World Sailing |access-date=2016-01-08 |archive-date=2015-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906032130/http://www.sailing.org/news/13779.php |url-status=live}}</ref>

Lehtinen studies medicine at the University of Helsinki.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{World Sailing|id=FINSL2|www=silja-lehtinen}} * {{Olympics.com profile|silja-lehtinen}} * {{Olympedia}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lehtinen, Silja}} Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:Finnish female sailors (sport) Category:Olympic sailors for Finland Category:Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling Category:Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Elliott 6m Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Category:Olympic medalists in sailing Category:Sailors (sport) from Helsinki Category:Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:29er class world champions Category:World champions in sailing for Finland Category:21st-century Finnish sportswomen