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Born |
9 February 1989 (age 28) Pieksämäki, Finland |
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Height | 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 91 kg (201 lb; 14.3 st) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (born 9 February 1989) is a Finnish swimmer. He competed in the 50 m freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is the Finnish record holder over that distance with a time of 21.93 sec.
On 2 February 2014 Liukkonen came out as gay in a Yle interview, thus becoming one of the first openly gay top-level athletes in Finland.