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| Birth name | Mervi Väisänen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 May 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Raino Pesu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ski orienteering | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mervi Väisänen (born Mervi Pesu ; born 2 May 1973) is a Finnish ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering competitor.
She won a bronze medal in the long distance at the 2002 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Borovetz. She won a silver medal at the 2002 World MTB Orienteering Championships, after finishing seven seconds behind gold medalist Laure Coupat.
She won a bronze medal in the middle distance at the 2015 World Ski Orienteering Championships, behind Milka Reponen and Marjut Turunen.
See also
References
- ^ "Mervi Pesu". IOF Eventor. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "World Ski Orienteering Championships". International Orienteering Federation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
- ^ "MTB-WOC 2002 FRA Fontainebleau, France, 1–6 July 2002". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 1 April 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Official results for WSOC Middle distance". IOF Eventor. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
