Career
She has competed in the 2009 and 2011 World Championships and the 2008 European Championships. Mikkonen started Taekwondo training at a gym opened by Chuck Norris at the age of four in Florida, where she moved with her family. Mikkonen moved to Madrid as a teenager, and is studying Sport Sciences at the University of Madrid.
She is fluent in Finnish,Spanish and English.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women"s 57 kg defeating the Senegalese Bineta Diedhiou in the first round, but was defeated by eventual silver medalist Hou Yuzhuo of China in the quarterfinals.