 Liukkonen in 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 9 February 1989 (1989-02-09) (age 35) Pieksämäki, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (born 9 February 1989) is a Finnish swimmer and European champion. He competed in the 50 m freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the Finnish record holder over that distance with a time of 21.58 sec, as well as the short course record in the 50 m. He also holds the 100 m freestyle record, at 49.44 seconds. At the 2016 Olympics he swam in the 50 and 100 m freestyle events.
Personal life
On 2 February 2014, Liukkonen came out as gay in an Yle interview, thus becoming one of the first openly gay top-level athletes in Finland.
References
- "Ari-Pekka Liukkonen". SwimRankings.net.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ari-Pekka Liukkonen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- "London 2012 profile". Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- "Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Smashes Finnish 50 Free Record In 21.58". SwimSwam. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- "Suomalainen olympiauimari kaapista ulos - "Vihdoin voin olla oma itseni"" (in Finnish). Yle. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- Buzinski, Jim (22 July 2021). "Gay Olympics swimmer makes waves in and out of the water". Outsports. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
External links
- Ari-Pekka Liukkonen at World Aquatics
- Ari-Pekka Liukkonen at Swimrankings.net
- Ari-Pekka Liukkonen at Olympedia (archive)
- Ari-Pekka Liukkonen at Olympics.com
- Ari-Pekka Liukkonen at Olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish)
| Olympic Games | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byTuuli Petäjä-Sirén | Flagbearer for  Finland (with Satu Mäkelä-Nummela) Tokyo 2020 |
Succeeded byIncumbent |
| European Champions in Men's 50 m Freestyle | |
|---|---|
|
  | This biographical article related to a Finnish swimmer is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Finnish male freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Finland
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Finland
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Finnish LGBTQ sportspeople
- Finnish gay men
- LGBTQ swimmers
- Gay sportsmen
- People from Pieksämäki
- 21st-century Finnish LGBTQ people
- Sportspeople from South Savo
- Finnish swimming biography stubs