Suvi Mikkonen (born 11 July 1988, in Saari[1]) is a Finnish taekwondo practitioner.
Mikkonen started Taekwondo training at a gym opened by Chuck Norris[citation needed] at the age of four in Florida, where she moved with her family.
[citation needed] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the under 57 kg defeating the Senegalese Bineta Diedhiou in the first round,[5] but was defeated by eventual silver medalist Hou Yuzhuo of China in the quarterfinals.
Eventually, she got 5th place due to being defeated by Tseng Li-cheng of Chinese Taipei in the bronze medal matches.
In Rio, she beat Julia Vasconcelos Dos Santos before losing to Nikita Glasnovic.