Riikka Lehtonen
Appearance
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Full name | Riikka Hannele Lehtonen | ||||
Born | Kangasala, Finland | 24 July 1979||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||
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Position | Libero | ||||
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Riikka Lehtonen (born 24 July 1979 in Kangasala, Finland) is a Finnish volleyball and beach volley player. She is the most successful female volleyball player in Finland. Lehtonen has played for several professional clubs in Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Greece and Azerbaijan.
Since 2014 Lehtonen has competed in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with Taru Lahti.[1]
Club honours
[edit]Finnish Championship: 1997, 1999, 2019[2]
Finnish Cup: 1996, 1997, 2013
French Championship: 2002, 2003, 2004
French Cup: 2003, 2004
Italian Championship: 2006
Italian Cup: 2006
- CEV Women's Champions League: 2002, 2003
- CEV Women's Challenge Cup: 2008
References
[edit]- ^ "Lehtonen and Lahti chase Olympic dream" FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, 23 February 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ "Riikka Lehtoselle uran 11:s beach volleyn Suomen mestaruus – "Olen kiitollinen siitä, että saan vielä pelata"" [Riikka Lehtonen, 11th career beach volleyball Finnish Champion - "I am grateful that I am still playing"] (in Finnish). yle. 18 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
External links
[edit]Media related to Riikka Lehtonen at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Kangasala
- Olympiacos SFP (women's volleyball) players
- Finnish beach volleyball players
- Finnish women's volleyball players
- Beach volleyball players at the 2015 European Games
- European Games competitors for Finland
- Sportspeople from Pirkanmaa
- Women's beach volleyball players
- Finnish sportspeople stubs
- European volleyball biography stubs