Eva Ulrika Birgitta Räsänen (née Wahlström; born 30 October 1980)[1] is a Finnish former professional boxer who competed from 2010 to 2020.
She is the most successful professional boxer from Finland to date, being the first and only Finn to have won a world title from one of the four major boxing sanctioning bodies.
[4] After her lengthy amateur career, Wahlström made her professional debut on 26 March 2010, scoring a third-round stoppage over Irina Boldea.
[6] Wahlström won her first major regional championship—the vacant European female super-featherweight title—on 31 March 2012, defeating Agota Ilko via a ten-round unanimous decision (UD).
[8] Having spent most of 2013 recovering, she returned to the ring on 7 December to face decorated former kickboxing, K-1 and Muay Thai medallist Anna Sikora,[9] whom she defeated with ease in a six-round UD.
[21] Eva's older son, Leon (born 2009), won a bronze medal at the national junior boxing championships.