Career
She represented her nation Finland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has been training for Espoo Sailing Club (Finnish: Esbo Segelförening) throughout most of her sporting career under her longtime coach and mentor Minna Aalto. As of September 2014, Tenkanen is ranked sixth in the world for the one-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation, following her successes at the European and ISAF World Championships. Tenkanen qualified for the Finnish squad in the newly introduced Laser Radial class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by placing twelfth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand.
Two years later, at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain, Tenkanen delivered her best career record with a fourth-place finish in the Laser Radial class to secure a spot on the Finnish sailing team for her second Olympic bid in Rio de Janeiro.
