Eeva Riitta Fingerroos
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Born | Oulu, Finland | 4 July 1969
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Sport | Paralympic swimming |
Disability class | S11 |
Retired | 2000 |
Medal record |
Eeva Riitta "Eve" Fingerroos née Kukkonen (born 4 July 1969) is a retired Finnish Paralympic swimmer who competed in international level events, she specialised in butterfly stroke. She was one of Finland's most successful blind swimmers by winning fourteen medals and competed in five Paralympic Games.[1][2][3]
After retiring from swimming, Fingerroos became an entrepreneur designing women's underwear which has sold worldwide.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Eeva Riitta Fingerroos - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 13 October 2020.
- ^ "Eeva Riitta Kukkonen - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 13 October 2020.
- ^ "Eeva-Ritta Fingerroos awarded pro sports award (in Finnish)". Finnish Paralympic Committee. 5 December 2016.
- ^ "Eve, who was blinded as a child, did not opt out of life - "You can do as you see it" (in Finnish)". paivanlehti.fi. 1 May 2020.
Categories:
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Oulu
- Paralympic swimmers for Finland
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Finnish female freestyle swimmers
- Finnish female backstroke swimmers
- Finnish female butterfly swimmers
- Finnish female medley swimmers
- S11-classified para swimmers
- 20th-century Finnish women
- 21st-century Finnish businesswomen
- 21st-century Finnish businesspeople