Jessica Kähärä

Jessica Kähärä
Jessica Kähärä in Jyväskylä 2018
Full name	Jessica Ida Olivia Kähärä
nation	Finland
birthday	1st August 2001 (age 19)
place of birth	Mikkeli , Finland
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.89 m (open air) 1.90 m (hall)
society	Mikkelin Kilpa-Veikot
status	active
Medal table
Youth Olympic Summer Games 1 × 0 × 1 × U18 European Championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Youth Olympic Games bronze Buenos Aires 2018 high jump  U18 European Championships silver Győr 2018 1.83 m bronze Győr 2018 13.29 m
last change: July 18, 2020

Jessica Ida Olivia Kähärä (born August 1, 2001 in Mikkeli ) is a Finnish high jumper who occasionally competes in the triple jump .

Athletic career

Jessica Kähärä gained her first international experience in 2017 when she won the bronze medal in the high jump at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Győr with a jump of 1.80 m and she also won bronze in the triple jump with 12.85 m. The following year she won the silver medal in the high jump at the U18 European Championships there with a height of 1.80 m and the bronze medal in the triple jump with a width of 13.29 m. In the autumn, she took part in the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in the high jump and won the bronze medal there. In 2019 she finished eighth in the high jump and triple jump at the U20 European Championships in Borås with a skipped 1.80 m and seventh with 12.90 m.

In 2019 Käkärä became Finnish indoor champion in high jump.

Top performances

• High jump (open air): 1.87 m, 11 August 2018 in Espoo
  • Hall: 1.90 m, February 17, 2019 in Kuopio
• Triple jump: 13.29 m (+1.8 m / s), July 8, 2018 in Győr
  • Hall: 13.26 m, February 24, 2018 in Kuortane

Web links

Commons : Jessica Kähärä  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jessica Kähärä in the database of World Athletics (English)