- Mika Laitinen
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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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Olympic champions in men's ski jumping team large hill 1988: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Matti Nykänen, Tuomo Ylipulli, & Jari Puikkonen) * 1992: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Mika Laitinen, Risto Laakkonen, & Toni Nieminen) * 1994: Germany (Hansjörg Jäkle, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, & Jens Weißflog) * 1998: Japan (Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Masahiko Harada, & Kazuyoshi Funaki) * 2002: Germany (Sven Hannawald, Stephan Hocke, Michael Uhrmann, & Martin Schmitt) * 2006: Austria (Andreas Widhölzl, Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch, & Thomas Morgenstern) * 2010: Austria (Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Kofler, Thomas Morgenstern, & Gregor Schlierenzauer)This biographical article relating to ski jumping is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.