Susanna Rahkamo

Tuija Susanna Rahkamo ( born February 25, 1965 in Helsinki ) is a former Finnish figure skater, which was launched in ice dancing.

Biography

Rahkamo is the daughter of former Lord Mayor of Helsinki Kari Rahkamo.

Your partner Petri Kokko and they took part in international competitions since 1986. The first medal they won at the European Championships in 1993; they finished third. Their first World Cup medal she won as third in the World Cup 1994. Were the first medals for Finland in ice dancing.

1995 won Kokko and Rahkamo in Dortmund as the first Finns ever the European Championship. At the World Championships she finished second. Your freestyle music was a medley from the Beatles ( Yesterday, A hard day 's night ). Kokko and Rahkamo participated in two Olympic Games. In Albertville in 1992 they finished sixth and 1994 in Lillehammer fourth place.

They trained in Oberstdorf at Martin Skotnicky and choreographer Werner Lipowski. In 1996 she was seen in the video clip of Beyond the invisible of musical project Enigma.

In 1995, she ended her amateur career and turned professional bearing. The ice dance married and has two children.

In 2004 Rahkamo was elected president of the Finnish Figure Skating Association.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Petri Kokko )

1994 World Figure Skating Championships 1995 World Figure Skating Championships 1993 European Figure Skating Championships 1995 European Figure Skating Championships Winter Olympic Games Martin Skotnický Enigma (musical project) 1987 World Figure Skating Championships 1988 World Figure Skating Championships 1989 World Figure Skating Championships 1990 World Figure Skating Championships 1991 World Figure Skating Championships 1992 World Figure Skating Championships 1993 World Figure Skating Championships 1986 European Figure Skating Championships 1987 European Figure Skating Championships 1988 European Figure Skating Championships 1989 European Figure Skating Championships 1990 European Figure Skating Championships 1991 European Figure Skating Championships 1992 European Figure Skating Championships 1994 European Figure Skating Championships Jean Westwood (figure skater) Pamela Weight June Markham Courtney Jones Doreen Denny Christiane Guhel Jean Paul Guhel Linda Shearman Pavel Roman Diane Towler Bernard Ford Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater) Angelika Buck Erich Buck Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean Andrei Bukin Alexander Zhulin Gwendal Peizerat Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin Sergei Novitski Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte
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