Mika Laitinen Explained

Mika Laitinen
Fullname:Mika Antero Laitinen
Birth Date:5 April 1973
Birth Place:Kuopio, Finland
Height:185 cm
Personalbest:189 m (620 ft)
Harrachov, 9 March 1996
Seasons:1990–1993
1995–2000
Wins:5
Teamwins:4
Additionalpodiums:6
Totalpodiums:11
Teampodiums:4
Events In Yellow:7
Individual Starts:144
Team Starts:5
Updated: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
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scope=row align=center49 — — N/A N/A
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scope=row align=center9 11 6 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center6 49 15 N/A 6
scope=row align=center14 7 39 69 12
scope=row align=center26 21 30 15 25
scope=row align=center33 24 32 31 32
scope=row align=center25 17 — 24 22

Wins

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No.SeasonDateLocationHillSize
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1 align=center rowspan=52 December 1995   Lysgårdsbakken K90 (night) NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"2 10 December 1995   Bloudkova velikanka K120 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"3 12 December 1995   Trampolino dal Ben K90 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"4 28 December 1995   Hans-Renner-Schanze K120 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"5 30 December 1995   Schattenbergschanze K115 LH