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Pirjo Häggman

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Height
  
1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Weight
  
54 kg (119 lb)


Sport
  
Sprint

Name
  
Pirjo Haggman

Born
  
June 8, 1951 (age 72) (
1951-06-08
)
Sotkamo, Finland

Club
  
Jymy Sotkamo, HKV Helsinki

Pirjo Häggman (née Wilmi, born 8 June 1951) is a retired Finnish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Häggman was a member of the Finnish silver medal 4 × 400 m relay team at the 1974 European Athletics Championships in Rome. She competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. 1976 Häggman finished fourth, losing the bronze medal by 0.01 seconds.

In 1981 Häggman and Venezuelan Flor Isava-Fonseca were the first women to be elected as International Olympic Committee members. She resigned in January 1999 due to the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal. Häggman's ex-husband had been working as a paid consultant for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee during the bidding process.

References

Pirjo Häggman Wikipedia