Maija Tīruma

Maija Tīruma

Tīruma in 2014
Personal information
Born	28 November 1983 (1983-11-28) (age 41) Riga, Latvia
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport	Luge
Medal record Representing Latvia World Championships 2008 Oberhof Mixed team 2009 Lake Placid Mixed team European Championships 2008 Cesana Mixed team

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.

References

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Maija Tīruma". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
• 2002 luge women's singles results
• 2006 luge women's singles results
• Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 October 2012)

External links

Media related to Maija Tīruma at Wikimedia Commons

• Maija Tīruma at the International Luge Federation (archive)
• Maija Tīruma at Olympedia
• Maija Tīruma at Olympics.com
• Maija Tīruma at Olympic.org (archived)
• Maija Tīruma at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)