perjantai 11. maaliskuuta 2011

SKI JUMPING: "THE FLYING FINN" and WORLD SUPER STAR SKI JUMPER from FINLAND ( SUOMI - FINLAND ) MIKA LAITINEN

Mika Laitinen


Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Gold 1992 Albertville Team large hill
World Championships
Gold 1995 Thunder Bay Team large hill
Gold 1997 Trondheim Team large hill
Bronze 1995 Thunder Bay Individual normal hill

Mika Antero Laitinen (born April 5, 1973 in Kuopio) is Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000. He won a gold medal in the Team large hill competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.

His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won three medals, including two golds in the Team large hill event (1995, 1997) and a bronze in the Individual normal hill (1995).

In the World Cup season 1995–96 Laitinen dominated the first part of the season and won 6 of the ten legs, until he fell and injured himself in the practice jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.


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