Maija Tīruma
.jpg) Tīruma in 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||
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28 November 1983 (age 33) Riga, Latvia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Luge | ||||||||||||||||||
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Maija Tīruma (born 28 November 1983) is a former Latvian luger who competed from 2000 to 2013. She won two bronze medals in the mixed team relay event at the FIL World Luge Championships (2008, 2009). Tīruma also won a gold medal in the mixed team relay event at the 2008 FIL European Luge Championships in Cesana, Italy and finished seventh in the women's singles event at those same championships. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of ninth in the women's singles event at Vancouver in 2010.
Since 2013, she is the head coach of the Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton Club of la Plagne in France. Her younger sister Elīza Cauce is also an Olympic luger.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maija Tīruma. |
- "Maija Tīruma". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
- 2002 luge women's singles results
- 2006 luge women's singles results
- FIL-Luge profile
- Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 October 2012)
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