Marja-Leana Lehtonen is a professional female bodybuilder and personal trainer from Finland, born in 1968 in Tampere.
Always interested in outdoor activities, she joined a sports club in 1983 and became a track athlete.
After two years of growing interest in bodybuilding, she decided to see if she could compete in the field and entered the Finland National Championship.
She won 2nd place in the lightweight category, taking her to the World Championship in Mexico City in 1990, where she finished 7th.
She gives her best lifts as a curl (EZ-curl-bar) of 150 pounds for eight reps, and a bench press of 242 pounds for two reps[1] Marja said she was inspired by seeing muscular track field athletes at a young age to look like them.