 Baas in 2018 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Born | 10 September 2000 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Sprint |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | 400m: 51.47 (Madrid, 2025) Indoors 400m: 52.25 (Apeldoorn, 2025) NR |
Mette Baas (born 10 September 2000) is a Finnish sprinter. She predominantly competes over 400 metres, and is a multiple-time national champion and is the indoor national record holder. [1]
She was born in Lavia, Finland, but grew up in Tornio. She later moved to Joensuu where she studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences and changed her athletics club from Veitsiluoto Kisaveikot to Joensuu Kataja. [2] She competed for Finland at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere. [3]
In 2021, she ran the fastest time by a Finnish woman for the 400 metres since Kirsi Mykkänen in 2005, when she ran 52.76 seconds in the Finnkampen. [4] She ran a 400 metres personal best of 52.51 in Gothenburg in 2022. [2] In 2024, she lowered her personal best for the 400 metres to 52.10, whilst competing in Lahti. [5]
She competed for Finland at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, where she ran a Finnish indoor national record of 52.25 seconds. [6]
She ran a Finnish national best time of 36.71 seconds to finish runner-up to Henriette Jaeger in the lesser-run 300 metres in Bergen in June 2025, breaking her own previous best national mark of 37.09 seconds. [7] [8] Later that month, she represented Finland at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships, where she ran a personal best 51.47 seconds for the 400 metres, to finish with the sixth fastest time in the First Division. [9] It was the fastest time by a Finnish athlete since Pirjo Häggman at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [5]
Baas competed for the Finnish team at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in the women's 400 metres. [10] [11]
