Mika Laitinen
Mika Laitinen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Mika Antero Laitinen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1973-04-05) 5 April 1973 (age 51) Kuopio, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best | 189 m (620 ft) Harrachov, 9 March 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 1990–1993 1995–2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Starts | 144 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 10 February 2016. |
Mika Antero Laitinen (born 5 April 1973) is Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000.
Career
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 1995/96 World Cup season, Laitinen dominated the first part of the season and won five of the nine events, until he fell and injured himself during a practice jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
World Cup
Standings
Season | Overall | 4H | SF | NT | JP |
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1989/90 | — | — | N/A | N/A | N/A |
1990/91 | — | — | — | N/A | N/A |
1991/92 | 49 | — | — | N/A | N/A |
1992/93 | — | — | — | N/A | N/A |
1994/95 | 9 | 11 | 6 | N/A | N/A |
1995/96 | 6 | 49 | 15 | N/A | 6 |
1996/97 | 14 | 7 | 39 | 69 | 12 |
1997/98 | 26 | 21 | 30 | 15 | 25 |
1998/99 | 33 | 24 | 32 | 31 | 32 |
1999/00 | 25 | 17 | — | 24 | 22 |
Wins
No. | Season | Date | Location | Hill | Size |
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1 | 1995/96 | 2 December 1995 | Lillehammer | Lysgårdsbakken K90 (night) | NH |
2 | 10 December 1995 | Planica | Bloudkova velikanka K120 | LH | |
3 | 12 December 1995 | Predazzo | Trampolino dal Ben K90 | NH | |
4 | 28 December 1995 | Oberhof | Hans-Renner-Schanze K120 | LH | |
5 | 30 December 1995 | Oberstdorf | Schattenbergschanze K115 | LH |
External links
- Mika Laitinen at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Mika Laitinen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1988: Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Matti Nykänen, Tuomo Ylipulli, Jari Puikkonen (FIN)
- 1992: Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Mika Laitinen, Risto Laakkonen, Toni Nieminen (FIN)
- 1994: Hansjörg Jäkle, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, Jens Weißflog (GER)
- 1998: Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Masahiko Harada, Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN)
- 2002: Sven Hannawald, Stephan Hocke, Michael Uhrmann, Martin Schmitt (GER)
- 2006: Andreas Widhölzl, Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch, Thomas Morgenstern (AUT)
- 2010: Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Kofler, Thomas Morgenstern, Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT)
- 2014: Severin Freund, Marinus Kraus, Andreas Wank, Andreas Wellinger (GER)
- 2018: Daniel-André Tande, Andreas Stjernen, Johann André Forfang, Robert Johansson (NOR)
- 2022: Stefan Kraft, Daniel Huber, Jan Hörl, Manuel Fettner (AUT)
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