Maija Järvelä
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| Native name | Maija Loytynoja | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Finnish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | January 17, 1984 Raahe, Finland | ||||||||||||||
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| Disability class | LW6/8 | ||||||||||||||
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Maija Järvelä also commonly known as Maija Loytynoja (born 17 January 1984) is a Finnish female biathlete and cross-country skier. She represented Finland at the Paralympics in 2006, 2010 and 2014. Järvelä won a silver medal in the women's pursuit standing biathlon event at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, the first medal won by Finland at the 2010 games.