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Birth name | Mervi Väisänen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 2 May 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Raino Pesu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Ski orienteering | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mervi Väisänen (born Mervi Pesu ;[1] born 2 May 1973) is a Finnish ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering competitor.
She won a bronze medal in the long distance at the 2002 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Borovetz.[2] She won a silver medal at the 2002 World MTB Orienteering Championships, after finishing seven seconds behind gold medalist Laure Coupat.[3]
She won a bronze medal in the middle distance at the 2015 World Ski Orienteering Championships, behind Milka Reponen and Marjut Turunen.[4]
See also
- Finnish orienteers
- List of orienteers
- List of orienteering events
References
- ↑ "Mervi Pesu". IOF Eventor. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ↑ "World Ski Orienteering Championships". International Orienteering Federation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
- ↑ "MTB-WOC 2002 FRA Fontainebleau, France, 1–6 July 2002". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
- ↑ "Official results for WSOC Middle distance". IOF Eventor. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
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