Heini Koivuniemi

Heini Koivuniemi is a Finnish strongwoman, born in 1973, who has taken many podium places at the World's Strongest Woman contest. She competed in that contest five times, finishing second in 2001 and third in 2002 and 2003. She also won Europe's Strongest Woman in 2002 and Finland's Strongest Woman in 2001 and 2003. In 2002 she was featured in the BBC documentary Strongwomen, which followed her training for that year's World's Strongest Woman and went behind the scenes at the contest itself. Koivuniemi holds a Guinness world record for throwing a 12.3 kilogram beer keg over a bar set at a height of 3.46 metres, and in 1999 she won the Ms. Galaxy Europe contest in Kokkola, Finland, which combined an obstacle course with a figure and posing routine.