Elina Mäkinen

Country: Finland

Summary

·        Champion cold water swimmer and ambassador of Ice and Winter Swimming in Finland and Worldwide

·        Multiple world champion winter swimmer, 7 time Finnish national champion

·        First Finnish swimmer to officially record Ice mile (2-degree water) in 2017, Extreme & Polar Miles

·        Diversity of swims including ice swimming, winter swimming, open water swimming, relay swims, swim/run, triathlon, and even Underwater Hockey

·        Tiktok ice swimming creator with 1,6m followers with an ice swimming video exceeding 77 million views.

Events

2 x Certified IISA Ice Miles: 2017 Armagh & 2022 Svalbard Polar Ice Mile

1 Kilometer Swims (IISA & IWSA):

·        28 February 2015 2nd longest swim female (1100m) Winter Swimming Festival Pirita Open and Estonian Championships,

·        20 March 2015 2nd Overall 1st International Ice Swimming Associations World Championships in Murmansk

·        8 January 2016 3rd Overall women Aqua Sphere Ice Swimming German Open Burghausen

·        11 December 2016 British Championship 1st Overall women, Chillswim

·        5 January 2017 3rd AG 20-25 2nd Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships

·        2019 IISA World Championships in Murmansk

International Winter Swimming Association Swims:

·        7 time Finnish Champion in Winter Swimming

·        Two times world Champion and several podium places in 2014 Winter Swimming World Championships, Rovaniemi.

·        Several podium finishes, 1st 100m freestyle in Winter Swimming World Champs 2016 Tyumen.

·        1st 25m butterfly with fastest women time and 25m breaststroke, several podium places in Winter Swimming World Championships 2018 Tallinn

·        Winter Swimming World Cup 2nd AG women 2017 and 2018

·        Jinan Winter Swimming Festival and Taierzhuang 2020 several podium places

·        Champion and several podium places in 2020 Winter Swimming World Championships, Bled

Other Considerations

·        Tiktok ice swimming creator with 1,6m followers with an ice swimming video exceeding 77 million views

·        Vuoden Jaakko 2016, Finnish “Jaakko of the year” throwing cold stone in the waters as a symbol of waters getting colder. An honour from Joensuun Jääkarhut winter swimming club to recognize extraordinary swims and raising awareness of ice swimming

·        Part of the Pioneering relay team that completed first official 2-way North Channel in 2015. (10-12 Degree water)

·        Part of the Pioneering relay to attempt two-way Baltic Sea crossing from Finland to Estonia 180km to promote Finnish open water and Channel swimming (one way completed)

·        Swim4Good 22km charity swim for Unicef, Luxembourg 2016 (Pool swimming, 7 hours)

·        Ironman Finisher 2018, Tallinn Ironman

·        Ö till Ö swimrun world championships Finished in 2021

·        Several short documentaries and interviews on ice swimming.

·        COLD – Science document 2022 released in December 2022 - Document filed during three years and included hypothermia tests, brown fat measurement and regularly cold training for Polar mile