Senni Salminen
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| Nationality | Finnish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | triple jump | ||||||||||||||
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Senni Marjaana Salminen (born 29 January 1996) is a Finnish athlete who competes in the triple jump. She was a bronze medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]Born in Helsinki, she competes for Imatra athletics club and is coached by former Olympian Matti Mononen.[2]
Salminen gained her first international experience in 2015 when she took fifth place in the triple jump at the Junior European Championships in Eskilstuna with a jump of 12.98 m.[3] In 2017, she reached eleventh place with 13.01 m at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz. In 2021 she finished seventh at the European Indoor Championships in Toruń with 14.14 m.
In 2020, Salminen became the Finnish champion in the long jump outdoors and in 2021 indoors. In addition, she was triple jump indoor champion in 2020 and 2021. Salminen jumped a new Finnish record of 14.51 m at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku usurping the 18 year old previous record of Heli Koivula Kruger by 12 cm. With that jump she became the leading European in the year so far and surpassed the minimum for qualification to the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.[4]
She was named in the Finnish team for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[5] She competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[6]
She won the bronze medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships with a final jump of 13.99 metres.[7] She jumped 13.90 metres to finish sixth in May 2025 at the 2025 Doha Diamond League.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Salminen is gay and detailed in the book Love for Sport by Tiina Tuppurainen and she realised when she 15 or 16 years old but did not talk about it to anyone initially, because she had noticed that there was a lot of homophobia and stereotyping in the sports world. When she told her parents they said they had already guessed.[9]
Competition record
[edit]| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Finland
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| 2015 | European U20 Championships | Eskilstuna, Sweden | 5th | Triple jump | 12.98 m |
| 2017 | European U23 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 11th | Triple jump | 13.01 m |
| 2021 | European Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 7th | Triple jump | 14.14 m |
| Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 13th (q) | Triple jump | 14.20 m | |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 14th (q) | Triple jump | 14.21 m |
| European Championships | Munich, Germany | 7th | Triple jump | 14.13 m | |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 30th (q) | Triple jump | 13.50 m |
| 2024 | European Championships | Rome, Italy | 21st (q) | Triple jump | 13.54 m |
| 2025 | European Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 3rd | Triple jump | 13.99 m |
References
[edit]- ^ "Senni SALMINEN | Profile". www.worldathletics.org. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- ^ "Kiksit: Senni Salminen joutui selättämään loukkaantumiset ja masennuksen palatakseen huipulle — Maajoukkuekolmiloikkaaja saa nyt henkistä apua psykoterapeutilta ja käyttää omia valokuviaan tunnemaailmansa ymmärtämiseen". Uutisvuoksi. December 25, 2019. Archived from the original on July 21, 2021. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
- ^ "Senni Salminen loikkasi EM-finaalin viidenneksi". July 17, 2015. Archived from the original on June 24, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
- ^ "Senni Salmiselta järisyttävät loikat! 18 vuotta vanha Suomen ennätys on historiaa". Ilta-Sanomat. June 8, 2021.
- ^ "Tässä on Suomen 67 urheilijan joukkue Rooman EM-kisoihin – Wilma Murto ansaitsi Suomelle yllätyspaikan". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 30 May 2024. Archived from the original on 1 June 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Women's Triple jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 3 August 2024. Archived from the original on 8 December 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ Crumpey, Euan (7 March 2025). "Mixed 1500m fortunes for Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Georgia Hunter Bell". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ^ "Results - Doha Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 16 May 2025. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
- ^ "Triple jumper Senni Salminen in new book: Former coach demanded more femininity - "Why don't you dress up more and wear nice nails, hair and makeup for competitions"". sipoonsanomat.fi. 15 May 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
