Tuuli Petäjä-Sirén

Tuuli Pauliina Petäjä-Sirén (born 9 November 1983 in Espoo) is a Finnish windsurfer. She won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's RS:X.^[1] She was chosen as athlete of the year in Finland in 2012.^[2]^[3]

At the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics Petäjä-Sirén was chosen to carry the Finnish flag.^[4] She finished 10th in the women's RS:X.^[5] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she competed once again in the women's RS:X, and finished 14th.^[6]

References

^ Peach, Simon (7 August 2012). "Team GB's Nick Dempsey secures windsurfing silver medal". The Independent. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
^ "Tuuli Petäjä-Sirén is athlete of the year". yle.fi. 16 January 2013.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tuuli Petäjä". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
^ "Tuuli Petäjä-Sirén to carry Finnish flag at Olympic ceremony". 3 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
^ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016 Olympics. COJOPR. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
^ "Sailing - Women's Windsurfer - RS:X - Group Results". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.

Olympic Games
Preceded by Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Flagbearer for Finland Rio de Janeiro 2016	Succeeded by Satu Mäkelä-Nummela & Ari-Pekka Liukkonen

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