Liina Laasma

Liina Laasma
Liina Laasma in Tallinn 2011
nation	Estonia
birthday	13th January 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Tõstamaa , Estonia
size	174 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	63.65 m (May 22, 2016 in Rabat )
society	SK Saarde
status	active
Medal table
U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Junior European Championships gold Tallinn 2011 55.99 m
last change: January 24, 2020

Liina Laasma (born January 13, 1992 in Tõstamaa ) is an Estonian javelin thrower .

Athletic career

Liina Laasma gained her first international experience in 2009 at the World Youth Championships in Brixen , where she took fifth place in the final with a width of 50.99 m. Then she won the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere with 53.66 m. The following year she took part in the Junior World Championships in Moncton , Canada , but was eliminated there with 48.22 m in qualification. In 2011 she won the Junior European Championships in Tallinn with 55.99 m. In 2013 she took part in the World Championships in Moscow for the first time and was eliminated there with 56.93 m in qualification, as well as at the European Championships in 2016 in Amsterdam with 56.61 m. She also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where 58.06 m were not enough for a final . At the European Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2018 , she was eliminated without a valid attempt in qualification and in 2019 she was fifth at the European Games in Minsk with a throw on 61.88 m.

In 2013 and 2017, Laasma became the Estonian javelin champion. She is (as of 2020) the Estonian record holder, first she improved Moonika Aava's record to 62.50 m, in 2014 she reached 63.17 m and finally on May 22, 2016 in Rabat the current width of 63.65 m.

Web links

• Liina Laasma in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Liina Laasma in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Liina Laasma in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Biography in ESBL (Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon, Estonian)