Senni Marjaana Salminen (born 29 January 1996) is a Finnish athlete who competes in the triple jump. She was a bronze medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Biography Born in Helsinki, she competes for Imatra athletics club and is coached by former Olympian Matti Mononen.
Salminen gained her first international experience in 2015 when she took fifth place in the triple jump at the Junior European Championships in Eskilstuna with a jump of 12.98 m. In 2017, she reached eleventh place with 13.01 m at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz. In 2021 she finished seventh at the European Indoor Championships in Toruń with 14.14 m.
In 2020, Salminen became the Finnish champion in the long jump outdoors and in 2021 indoors. In addition, she was triple jump indoor champion in 2020 and 2021. Salminen jumped a new Finnish record of 14.51 m at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku usurping the 18 year old previous record of Heli Koivula Kruger by 12 cm. With that jump she became the leading European in the year so far and surpassed the minimum for qualification to the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
She was named in the Finnish team for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. She competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
She won the bronze medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships with a final jump of 13.99 metres. She jumped 13.90 metres to finish sixth in May 2025 at the 2025 Doha Diamond League. In September 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the final.
In August 2026, she competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England.
Personal life Salminen is gay and detailed in the book Love for Sport by Tiina Tuppurainen and she realised when she 15 or 16 years old but did not talk about it to anyone initially, because she had noticed that there was a lot of homophobia and stereotyping in the sports world. When she told her parents they said they had already guessed.
Competition record Representing 2015European U20 ChampionshipsEskilstuna, Sweden5thTriple jump12.98 m2017European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland11thTriple jump13.01 m2021European Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland7thTriple jump14.14 mOlympic GamesTokyo, Japan13th (q)Triple jump14.20 m2022World ChampionshipsEugene, United States14th (q)Triple jump14.21 mEuropean ChampionshipsMunich, Germany7thTriple jump14.13 m2023World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary30th (q)Triple jump13.50 m2024European ChampionshipsRome, Italy21st (q)Triple jump13.54 m2025European Indoor ChampionshipsApeldoorn, Netherlands3rdTriple jump13.99 mWorld ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan20th (q)Triple jump13.77 m2026European ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom21st (q)Triple jump13.53 m
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