Simo Lipsanen

Simo Lipsanen
Simo Lipsanen (2018)
Full name	Simo Lipsanen
nation	Finland
birthday	13th September 1995 (age 24)
place of birth	Lappeenranta , Finland
size	191 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	Open air: 17.14 m Hall: 16.98 m
society	Lappeenrannan Urheilu-Miehet
Trainer	Petri Ruotsalainen
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2017 Triple jump
last change: January 28, 2020

Simo Lipsanen (born September 13, 1995 in Lappeenranta ) is a Finnish athlete who specializes in the triple jump . In this discipline he is the holder of the Finnish national record.

Athletic career

Simo Lipsanen first took part in the Finnish U18 triple jump indoor championships in 2012, where he won the bronze medal. From 2014 onwards for the first time among the adults, where he won the silver medal at the national championships. In 2015 he took part in the European Team Championship for the first time with the Finnish team . In his competition he jumped the third best distance. In July he entered the U23 European Championships in Tallinn. With 16.10 m he qualified for the final, in which he ended up in seventh place.

In March 2017 he competed at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade. He managed to move into the final, in which he finished seventh with 16.84 m. In July he last competed at the U23 European Championships . With 16.42 m he made it into the final, in which he increased to 17.14 m, which in addition to a new national record meant the runner-up title. At the final highlight of the season, the World Championships in London, he failed to qualify and ended up in 17th place. In 2018 he made it into the final of the European Championships in Berlin, where he finished ninth with a width of 16.46 m.

In February 2019 he set a new national record with 16.98 m in the hall. He could not confirm this distance at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, where he narrowly failed in the qualification and again took ninth place. In October he finished 23rd at the World Championships in Doha. Lipsanen has won more than ten national championship titles so far, both in the triple jump and in the long jump

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Distance / time
Starts for Finland
2015	U23 European Championships	Tallinn	7th	Triple jump	16.02 m
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade	7th	Triple jump	16.84 m
	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz	2.	Triple jump	17.14 m
	World championships	London	17th	Triple jump	16.54 m
2018	European championships	Berlin	9.	Triple jump	16.46 m
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow	9.	Triple jump	16.43 m
	World championships	Doha	23.	Triple jump	16.47 m

Personal best

• Long jump : 7.65 m, June 19, 2019, Jyväskylä
  • Long jump (hall): 7.76 m, February 19, 2017, Jyväskylä

• Triple jump : 17.14 m, July 16, 2017, Bydgoszcz , (Finnish record)
  • Triple jump (hall): 16.98 m, February 10, 2019, Liévin , (Finnish record)

Web links

Commons : Simo Lipsanen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Simo Lipsanen in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Simo Lipsanen in the database of European Athletics (English)