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Sari Essayah
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Finland
- Active from
- 1967-09-15
Discography
- Joko joulun alkaa saa1993
- Tsihi tsihi1996
- Emo1998
- Viisuja vintiltä1998
- Aika riemulle ruveta2014
- Aika riemulle ruveta2014
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,579x
- COSMIC: the Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,471x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 3,155x
- ABT-199, a potent and selective BCL-2 inhibitor, achieves antitumor activity while sparing platelets
· 2013 · cited 2,750x
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Petteri Orpo
- Preceded by
- Antti Kurvinen
- Born
- ( 1967-02-21 ) 21 February 1967 (age 59) , Haukivuori , Finland
- Party
- Christian Democrats
- Spouse
- Robert Knapp
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Race walking
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Miriam
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Haukivuori
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Educated at
- University of Vaasa
- Political party
- Christian Democrats
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Religion
- Pentecostalism
- Participant in
- 1992 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Finland
- Mass
- 48
- Image
- Sari-Essayah-01 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 162
- Work location
- Helsinki
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- Sari Essayah
- date of birth
- 1967-02-21
- birth name
- Sari Miriam Essayah
- sports discipline competed in
- racewalking
- name in native language
- Sari Essayah
- candidacy in election
- 2024 Finnish presidential election
- social media followers
- 19430
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Encyclopedic overview
Sari Miriam Essayah (born 21 February 1967) is a Finnish retired racewalker and a politician, former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Member of Parliament since 2015. She is the president of the Finnish Christian Democrats party. She has been serving as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry since 2023.
During her sports career, Essayah competed mainly in 5 and 10 kilometres. In the latter, she won the World Championship in 1993 and the European Championship in 1994. She set seven national records, all of which are still standing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sari Essayah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.