MURTO Wilma

Finland

Athletics

Date of Birth: 11 Jun 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: SALO

Birth Country:

Finland

Place of residence : TURKU

Residence Country:

Finland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's Pole Vault	5

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
WU20R	Women's Pole Vault	4.71 m	31 January, 2016	Zweibrücken (GER)

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault A	Women's Pole Vault Qualification - Group A	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault A	Women's Pole Vault Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Qual. (4.30)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2019	Doha, QAT	Qual. (4.35)

European Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2018	Berlin, GER	Qual. (4.35)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Pole Vault
2021	1 x 3rd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2021	Pole Vault	Gateshead, GBR	4.61

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
4	2019	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Turku, FIN	4.36
6	2018	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Turku, FIN	4.25

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Occupation:

Athlete

Languages spoken:

English, Finnish

Club name:

Salon Vilpas [Finland]

Coach:

Jarno Koivunen [personal], FIN

Injuries:

In June 2020 she suffered a right knee injury at a competition in Somero, Finland. She had surgery the following month, and returned to competition in August 2020. (is.fi, 30 Jun 2020, 01 Jul 2020; headlinesmania.com, 10 Aug 2020; verietyinfo.com, 13 Aug 2020; yle.fi, 30 Jun 2020)

Start:

She began athletics at age four, initially sprinting and high jumping. At age nine she took up the pole vault. "I kind of made the national [age-group] team as a 100m sprinter but I started pole vaulting when I was nine." (spikes.worldatheltics.org, 10 Mar 2017; nzherald.co.nz, 22 Jan 2019)

Reason:

Her mother encouraged her to try the pole vault. "She thought I'd be good at it and I'd like it. After that, every other event started getting boring so to go from 100m to pole vault, it's hard to go back to sprinting 100m." (nzherald.co.nz, 22 Jan 2019)

Ambition:

To win a gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (iltalehti.fi, 07 Jun 2020)

Hero:

US pole vaulter Jennifer Suhr. (hs.fi, 02 Feb 2015)

General Interest

General
COACHING CHANGES
In 2018 she split with coach Jarno Koivunen, who had been her coach since she was age nine. However, after spells being coached by Steve Rippon and Mikko Latvala, she rejoined Koivunen in November 2019. "It's been a crazy couple of years. I got to see new perspectives and different ways of approaching the pole vault. I got a lot out of my time with the other coaches [Rippon and Latvala], they have had an important role in my athletics career. We [she and Koivunen] don't think it would be going so well now [2020] if we hadn't been separated in between. I feel that our appreciation, trust and communication has improved." (mtvuutiset.fi, 06 Feb 2020; iltalehti.fi, 07 Jun 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
WU20R:: World U20 Record

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