Wilma Murto

Wilma Murto
Full name	Wilma Anna Helena Murto
nation	Finland
birthday	11th June 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Kuusjoki , Finland
size	180 cm
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	4.71 m (January 31, 2016 in Zweibrücken)
society	Salon Vilpas
Trainer	Jarno Koivunen
National squad	since 2014
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
U20 world championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2016 4.40 m  U20 European Championships bronze Grosseto 2017 4.15 m
last change: May 12, 2020

Wilma Anna Helena Murto (born June 11, 1998 in Kuusjoki , Salo ) is a Finnish pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Wilma Murto made her debut at an international championship at the 2014 Junior World Championships in Eugene at the age of 16. There she failed in qualification. In 2015 she set a new European youth record of 4.45 meters in the hall (this was improved by Lisa Gunnarsson in 2016 ). A year later, at an indoor meeting in Zweibrücken , she set a new Finnish record at 4.71 m and the current junior world record (as of May 2020).

At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , she took sixth place with 4.45 m. A week later, she won the bronze medal at the U20 World Athletics Championships in 2016 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, with a jump of 4.40 m. In contrast, she failed at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with 4.30 m already in the qualification. In 2017 she achieved eighth place in the final at the European Indoor Championships with a jump of 4.40 m. At the U20 European Championships in Grosseto , Italy , Murto jumped 4.15 m and won the bronze medal. In 2018 she took part in the European Championships in Berlin and was eliminated there with 4.35 m in qualification, as well as at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 2019 , where she only crossed 4.10 m. Then she finished fifth at the U23 European Championships in Gävle with 4.20 m and failed at the World Championships in Doha with 4.35 m in the qualification .

In 2018 and 2019 Murto became Finnish outdoor champion and in 2019 and 2020 also indoor.

Web links

• Wilma Murto in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Wilma Murto in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steven Mills: Murto clears world U20 pole vault record of 4.71m in Zweibrucken ( English ) IAAF. January 31, 2016. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Grosseto 2017