Tanja Kari
Tanja Kari is a Finnish Paralympic gold medalist in cross-country skiing. She is an amputee missing a right arm. In 2003, she was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability and in 2010 she was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame.[1] He was voted Finland's best disabled athlete in 1998 and 2002. Kari is a member of the WADA Athletes' Committee and the Athletes' Committee of the International Paralympic Committee.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Paralympic Hall of Fame
- ^ "Etusivu - Turun Sanomat". ts.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-11-03.
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- People from Ii
- Finnish female cross-country skiers
- Paralympic cross-country skiers for Finland
- Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Paralympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Finland
- Paralympic silver medalists for Finland
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Medalists at the 1992 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- Skiers from North Ostrobothnia
- 20th-century Finnish women
- Finnish cross-country skiing biography stubs
- European Paralympic medalist stubs
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