Finnish · Turku, Finland · Born 5 March 1985Finnish professional boxer and former WBC Women's Super Featherweight Champion, known for her undefeated championship reign and technical prowess.
Finland's most successful female boxer — WBC Super Featherweight champion for over four years, an undefeated reign of exceptional quality and a boxer of technical precision whose career made her the most celebrated Finnish women's boxer in history. Boxing is one of sport's most demanding disciplines, requiring power, speed, technical craft and extraordinary personal courage inside the ring. Career highlights included WBC Women's Super Featherweight Champion (undefeated reign), Finnish Boxer of the Year multiple times, European Champion. The measure of a great boxing athlete is the ability to perform consistently over time, and Eva's record demonstrates precisely that quality of sustained excellence. Few athletes in boxing combined consistency and peak performance as effectively across the full span of a long and distinguished career. Competing at the highest level in boxing over an extended period demands not only physical gifts but the mental resilience to overcome setbacks and maintain standards — something Eva Wahlström demonstrated throughout.
First Finnish woman to win a world boxing title
How They Played
Technical boxer with strong defensive skills
Lasting Impact
Pioneer for women's boxing in Finland and Nordic region
Career Honours
- WBC Women's Super Featherweight Champion (undefeated reign)
- Finnish Boxer of the Year multiple times
- European Champion
Finnish Athletes