Taru Lahti

Taru Lahti
portrait
birthday	December 9, 1992
place of birth	Tampere, Finland
size	1.80 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Acceptance / outside
societies
	LP Kangasala Vanajan RC Viimsi Spa Pieksämäki Volley
successes
2009 - Finnish cup finalist 2010 - Finnish runner-up
beach volleyball
Partner	2011–2017 Riikka Lehtonen 2013 Kirsi Hyttinen since 2016 Anniina Parkkinen
World ranking	Position 22
successes
2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 - Finnish Champion 2015 - Ninth Major Poreč 2015 - Ninth European Games 2015 - Ninth Grand Slam Olsztyn 2015 - Fourth Open Sochi 2016 - Second Open Antalya 2016 - Ninth Grand Slam Moscow 2016 - Ninth Major Poreč 2016 - Ninth Major Gstaad 2016 - Winner CEV Satellite Kisakallio 2017 - Ninth 5-Star Poreč 2017 - Winner CEV Masters Alanya 2017 - Ninth World Cup 2017 - Fifth European Championship 2018 - Second 3-Star Tokyo 2018 - Ninth 4-Star Moscow 2018 - Ninth 4-Star Las Vegas 2019 - Third 4-Star The Hague 2019 - Fifth 4-Star Ostrava 2019 - World Cup participation
Status: July 20, 2019

Taru Lahti (born December 9, 1992 in Tampere , now Taru Lahti-Liukkonen ) is a Finnish volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

Indoor volleyball

Lahti started her career at LP Kangasala . She made her first division debut in November 2008 when she played for Vanajan RC. She made it to the national cup final with the club in 2009, before becoming Finnish runner-up a year later. She later moved to Viimsi Spa in Estonia . After returning home in 2011, she joined her current club, Pieksämäki Volley.

beach volleyball

Lahti played her first satellite tournament in Turku in 2006 with Jennamiia Ripatti. At the U20 European Championships in Greece in 2009, she finished 19th with Sini Häkkinen. The following year she and Pauliina Vilponen came in 29th at the Youth World Cup in Porto . In 2011 she formed a duo with Riikka Lehtonen and took part in an open tournament on the FIVB World Tour in Åland for the first time . In the same year she won the Finnish championship. In 2012 Lahti / Lehtonen played their first Grand Slam in Stare Jabłonki . At the Bang Saen Open, Lahti and Emilia Nyström came in ninth in the top ten for the first time. In 2013 she formed a duo with Kirsi Hyttinen . Lahti / Hyttinen finished the Grand Slam in Rome in 33rd place. In Klagenfurt they took part in the European Championship . In 2014 Lahti played again with Riikka Lehtonen. Lehtonen / Lahti finished seventh and fifth in two CEV tournaments in Antalya and Baden . In Quartu Sant'Elena they took part in the European Championship , but were eliminated after three defeats in the preliminary round. In the following years Lehtonen / Lahti played with varying success on the European and World Tour. After finishing ninth at the 2017 World Cup in Vienna , the two separated.

Since then, Lahti has been playing alongside Anniina Parkkinen , with whom she has competed in several tournaments since the end of 2016. Lahti / Parkkinen finished fifth at the 2017 European Championships in Jūrmala and had some top ten results on the 2018 and 2019 FIVB World Tour . They also took part in the 2019 World Cup in Hamburg .

Web links

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Profile in the Mestaruusliiga (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 15, 2019)