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| Full name | Marja Kristiina Päivinen-Pärssinen | |||||||||||
| Nickname | "Marde' | |||||||||||
| Nationality |  Finland | |||||||||||
| Born | (1971-03-13) 13 March 1971 (age 53) Jyväskylä, Finland | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle and Butterfly | |||||||||||
| Club | Simmis | |||||||||||
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Marja Pärssinen (born 13 March 1971 in Jyväskylä, Finland) is a retired female butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Finland. Nicknamed Marde Pärssinen competed for her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. Her best result was a 14th place with the women's 4×100 m medley relay team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, alongside Mia Hagman, Minna Salmela, and Anu Koivisto.
External links
- Marja Pärssinen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Finnish female butterfly swimmers
- Finnish female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Finland
- Sportspeople from Jyväskylä
- 20th-century Finnish sportswomen
- Finnish swimming biography stubs