Jessica Kähärä

Jessica Kähärä (born 1 August 2001) is a multi-event track and field athlete from Finland. She has won Finnish national titles in the long jump and high jump.

Career
Kähärä was a bronze medalist in the high jump at the European Youth Olympics in Győr, Hungary.

She won silver in the high jump and bronze in the triple jump at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr, Hungary. That year, she was also a bronze medalist in the high jump at the Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.

She won the Finnish national indoor title in the high jump in February 2019 and broke the Finnish national under-20 record with a 1.90m clearance. She competed amongst senior athletes at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. However, a succession of injuries over the next years including ankle surgery that ruled her out of much of the 2021 season, led her to move away from the high jump discipline.

She won the Finnish national title in the long jump at the 2023 Finnish indoor national championships in February 2023. She won bronze in the triple jump at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland. She also competed at the 2023 University Games in Chengdu in August 2023.

She was named in the Finnish team for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.

Personal life
A member of the Mikkeli Kilpa-Veikkou Athletics club in Mikkeli, Kähärä studies physical education and social sciences at the University of Jyväskylä.