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| Nationality | Finnish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 January 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | 800m | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 800m: 2:01.12 (Tampere, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Veera Mattila (born 21 January 2003) is a track and field athlete from Finland. In 2023, she became the national indoor champion over 800 metres, and in 2024 national indoor champion over 400 metres. [1]
From Kiikoinen, she attended High School in Pori. [2] She then studied biology at the University of Turku. [3]
She was part of a Finnish 4 × 400 m relay team that set a new national U20 record at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [4] Individually at that championships she competed in the 800 metres and qualified from the heats for the semi-finals. [5] In August 2022, she was selected for the Finnish team at the 2022 European Athletics Championships held in Munich, Germany. [6]
In February 2023, she became the Finnish national indoor champion over 800m, in Helsinki. She ran a new indoor personal best time of 2:08.01. At the same competition she also ran in the 400m and set a new indoor personal best of 54.85, finishing fifth. [7]
In July 2023, she competed in the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's 800 metres and won the silver medal in Espoo, Finland, in a new personal best time of 2:03.14. [8] [9] Although, she was initially mistakenly given the bronze medal on the podium. [10] She ran a personal best for the 800 metres of 2:01.12 in Tampere, Finland on 8 August 2023. [11]
She won the national title over 400 metre at the 2024 Finnish Indoor Athletics Championships in a time of 55.54 seconds. [12] She was runner-up to Sara Lappalainen at the Finnish Athletics Championships over 800 metres in June 2024. [13]
