Ella Mikkola (born 10 November 2007) is a Finnish high jumper. She won the senior Finnish Athletics Championships title in 2025 and set a Finnish under-20 record height that year.[1]
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| Born | 10 November 2007 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High jump 1.90 m (Espoo, 2025) NU20R | ||||||||||||||
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Biography
editMikkola is from Tampere and took part in many sports as a child, trying high jump for the first time at around the age of eight yesrs-old. She studies sports at Sampo Central High School. She competes as a member of Tampere Pyrintö and began to be coached by Laura Moisio in her early teens. She placed fourth at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Slovakia.[2][3]
In June 2025, she set a new personal best height of 1.85 metres at the Keuruu Midsummer Games.[4] In July 2025, she improved her personal best to 1.87 metres whilst jumping at the Lempäälä Jumping Carnival to move to second behind Katja Kilpi on the Finnish all-time U20 list, and second in the European U20 year rankings.[5]
At the start of August 2025, she won the senior Finnish Athletics Championships title at the age of 17 years-old, jumping an under-20 national record of 1.90 metres in Espoo.[6][7] Later that month, she won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, after recording a 1.89 metres clearance.[8][9]
On 1 March 2026, she won the high jump with a clearance of 1.85 metres at the Finish Indoor Championships in Espoo.[10]
References
edit- ↑ "Ella Mikkola". World Athletics. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
- ↑ "Ella Mikkola, 17, beat her namesake and won Finnish Championship gold: "Pretty incredible"". hs.fi. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "Ella Mikkola, 17,'s strength is her natural effort - the new Finnish champion is aiming for success at the European Youth Championships". yle.fi. 6 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "Ella Mikkola jumped to second place in the European under-20 list". hs.fi. 20 June 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "Ella Mikkola second in the European Championship statistics – Eetu Jokela broke the European Championship limit – Rain ruined Somero's pole vault – Korkeasalo pushed her best of the summer – CARNIVAL 5.7". yleisurheilu.fi. 5 July 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "Finnish Championships". World Athletics. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "Silja Kosonen won the dramatic hammer final - here's everything from Sunday at the Kaleva Games". yle.fi. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "European Championship silver for high jumper Ella Mikkola and bronze for Enni Virjonen in heptathlon – Finland's biggest medal haul of the 21st century". yle.fi. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ↑ "Finnish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 2 March 2026.