Country Finland Team wins 4 Full name Mika Antero Laitinen Name Mika Laitinen | Seasons 1990–1993
1995–2000 Height 1.85 m Individual wins 5 Total podiums 11 | |
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Born 5 April 1973 (age 51)
Kuopio, Finland ( 1973-04-05 ) Personal best 189 m (620 ft)
Harrachov, 9 Mar 1996 | ||
Mika laitinen harrachov 1996
Mika Antero Laitinen (born 5 April 1973) is Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000.
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Mika laitinen 85 0m lahti 1993
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.
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