Taisto Miettinen

Who is Taisto Miettinen?

Taisto Miettinen is an award-winning Finnish athlete. He has won the World champion gold medals for the Water Running 2004, Iron Bar Walking 2012 and Bog Snorkelling 2012 and was also the winner of the Wife Carrying World Championships in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013. He has been the oldest contestant, who has won World Championship in wife carrying. He has won 11 medals in wife carrying World Championship competitions. He has also won gold metal for Finnish championship of snowshoe running 2010, 2011 & 2012 and winter swimming 2010 and also silver in WC-competition and many Finnish champions in the sprint. Miettinen has reached a total of seven World Championship titles, 15 World Champion medals, 10 Finnish Championship titles, 16 Finnish Championship medals, 8 foreign countries championships as well as 16 foreign countries championship medals, many number of other titles and records, as well as two world record time. Miettinen has also won f.ex. Finnish fear factor super man race. CraveOnline has 2012 chosen Taisto the world`s greatest reigning stupendous unknown champion number 1.

Miettinen has been selected the first Finnish Folkparty member of municipal council in 2012 for the period 2013-2016 in the city of Kauniainen.