Kaisa Sali

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Triathlon
FinlandFinland 0 Kaisa Maria Sali
Personal information
Date of birth 14th August 1981 (age 39)
place of birth Helsinki, Finland
size 161 cm
Weight 51 kg
societies
Current Sport for Good
successes
2014 National champion triathlon sprint distance
2014 National champion triathlon middle distance
2015 European triathlon middle distance champion
2016, 2017 2 × Fifth Ironman World Championships
2016-2018 3 × Ironman winner
2016, 2018 2 × winner Ironman 70.3
status
active

Kaisa Sali (born August 14, 1981 in Helsinki as Kaisa Maria Lehtonen ) is a Finnish duathlete and triathlete . She is multiple Ironman winner (2016, 2017, 2018) and European champion in the triathlon middle distance (2015). She is included in the best list of triathletes on the Ironman distance .

Career

Kaisa Lehtonen completed a degree in nutritional science.
In 1999 she started with the juniors at the European Triathlon Championships and finished 31st. In 2001 she was thirteenth. She has been a professional athlete since 2007. At the Duathlon European Championship in Budapest in 2009 she was third.

State champion triathlon sprint and middle distance 2014

In June she became national champion in the sprint distance and in July also in the middle distance.
In 2014 she switched from the short distance to the long distance and in September she won the title of Vice World Champion.

European champion triathlon middle distance 2015

In May 2015 Kaisa Lehtonen became European champion in the triathlon middle distance.

In April 2016 she won the Ironman South Africa at her second start in an Ironman race (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) . At the Ironman Hawaii in October, she finished fifth.

In May 2017 she married Markus Sali and has since started as Kaisa Sali . In June she was third at the Ironman 70.3 European Championships in Denmark. In October 2017, as in the previous year, she was fifth at the Ironman Hawaii after she had made up many places with the second-best marathon time of the day (3:01:34 h).

At Challenge Roth in July 2018, after 8:46:49 h, she finished third with a new personal best on the long distance. Four weeks later, the 36-year-old won her third Ironman race with Ironman Switzerland . At the Ironman Hawaii in October, she finished seventh.

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
03rd June 2018 5 Challenge - The Championship SlovakiaSlovakia Šamorín 04:13:59 Challenge World Championships; behind Lucy Charles
May 13, 2018 1 Ironman 70.3 Monterrey MexicoMexico Monterrey 04:06:33
13 Aug 2017 1 Challenge Turku FinlandFinland Turku 04:10:33
18th June 2017 3 Ironman 70.3 Elsinore DenmarkDenmark Elsinore 04:10:28 Third at the "Ironman 70.3 European Championships"
May 13, 2017 3 Ironman 70.3 Santa Rosa United StatesUnited States Sonoma County 04:23:57
Jan. 27, 2017 5 Ironman 70.3 Dubai United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai 04:07:40
28 Aug 2016 1 Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun AustriaAustria Zell am See 04:30:11
Jan. 29, 2016 3 Ironman 70.3 Dubai United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai 04:05:03 first race of the "Challenge Triple Crown Series"
May 24, 2015 1 ETU Middle Distance Triathlon European Championships ItalyItaly Rimini 04:41:14 European champion in the middle distance - as part of the Challenge Rimini
19th July 2014 1 FIN Middle Distance Triathlon National Championships FinlandFinland 04:28:35 State champion in the middle distance
June 14, 2014 1 FIN Sprint Distance Triathlon National Championships FinlandFinland 01:08:18 State champion on the sprint distance
May 25, 2014 2 Ironman 70.3 Austria AustriaAustria St. Polten 04:20:58
0Apr 7, 2012 3 ITU Sprint Triathlon African Cup MoroccoMorocco Larache 01:11:58 Third behind the Spaniard Carolina Routier
June 20, 2009 2 Alpine triathlon GermanyGermany Schliersee
June 23, 2001 13 ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Women Czech RepublicCzech Republic Carlsbad 01:16:16
0July 3, 1999 31 ETU Triathlon European Championship Junior Women PortugalPortugal Funchal 01:18:35 European triathlon championship juniors
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0June 9, 2019 3 Ironman Cairns AustraliaAustralia Cairns 08:53:52
Oct 13, 2018 7th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 08:54:26
29th July 2018 1 Ironman Switzerland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 09:06:01
01st July 2018 3 Challenge Roth GermanyGermany Roth 08:46:49 personal best time on the Ironman distance
19 Nov 2017 1 Ironman Arizona United StatesUnited States Tempe 08:51:54
Oct 14, 2017 5 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 09:04:40
0Apr 2, 2017 2 Ironman South Africa South AfricaSouth Africa Port Elizabeth 08:52:25
0Oct 8, 2016 5 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii
Apr 10, 2016 1 Ironman South Africa South AfricaSouth Africa Port Elizabeth 09:06:50
0Oct 4, 2015 2 Ironman Barcelona SpainSpain Calella 08:48:40
June 27, 2015 3 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships SwedenSweden Motala 05:33:41 Triathlon World Championship on the long distance
21 Sep 2014 2 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Weihai 05:47:47 World championship on the long distance
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
May 23, 2009 3 ETU Duathlon European Championships HungaryHungary Budapest 02:05:15

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaisa Lehtonen with Finnish fighting spirit and beetroot juice for the Ironman victory (April 22, 2016)
  2. ↑ EM Gold to Lehtonen and Ospaly, Wild Fourth (May 26, 2015)
  3. ↑ The Championship: Lucy Charles, Lionel Sanders repeat in Samorin (June 4, 2018)
  4. ↑ Lukas Krämer happy with fourth place (August 14, 2017)
  5. ↑ IRONMAN HAWAII 2018 - KAILUA-KONA, USA - ELITE PROVERTUNG (October 13, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Sali, Kaisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehtonen, Kaisa Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki