Tuula Tenkanen (born 11 August 1990 in

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) is a Finnish sailor, who specialized in one-person dinghy (

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) class. She represented her nation

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at the

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, and at the

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Career

She trained at Espoo Sailing Club () throughout most of her sporting career under her longtime coach and mentor Minna Aalto. As of September 2014, Tenkanen was ranked sixth in the world for the one-person dinghy class by the

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, following her successes at the European and ISAF World Championships. Tenkanen qualified for the Finnish squad in the newly introduced

class at the

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by placing twelfth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in

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. She posted a net score of 128 points to achieve a creditable twenty-second position in a fleet of twenty-eight sailors, edging out Belarus' Tatiana Drozdovskaya by a mere, thirteen-point gap on the tenth leg. Tenkanen sought to compete for the

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, but lost the slot to her sailing rival Sari Multala, who later finished seventh in the same class. Two years later, at the

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, Tenkanen delivered her best career record with a fourth-place finish in the Laser Radial class to secure a spot on the Finnish sailing team for her second Olympic bid in

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. She competed at the 2018 ISAF Sailing World Championships, and qualified for the

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tenkanen, Tuula 1990 births Living people Finnish female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Finland Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Sportspeople from Espoo Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial 21st-century Finnish sportswomen