Silja Lehtinen (born 5 November 1985 in
Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor. Lehtinen studies medicine at the
University of Helsinki.
Silja Lehtinen has sailed in two Olympic regattas. In 2008, at the age of 23, she skippered the Finnish team in the
Yngling class to an 11th place. In 2012, she participated in Women's Match Race (
Elliott 6m) and won a bronze medal with her crew,
Silja Kanerva and
Mikaela Wulff.[1][2][3]
In 2012 as well, only a month before the Olympic regatta, Lehtinen and her crew won match race world championship title in Gothenburg, Sweden.[4]
Her brother
Lauri skippered the Finnish 49er into seventh place at the 2012 Olympic regatta.
As a 15 year old, she won the
Byte class World Championship in 2001.[5]