Jari Puikkonen

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Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Gold	1988 Calgary	Team large hill
Bronze	1980 Lake Placid	Individual large hill
Bronze	1984 Sarajevo	Individual normal hill
World Championships
Gold	1984 Engelberg	Team large hill
Gold	1985 Seefeld	Team large hill
Gold	1989 Lahti	Individual large hill
Gold	1989 Lahti	Team large hill
Silver	1982 Oslo	Individual normal hill
Silver	1985 Seefeld	Individual large hill
Bronze	1982 Oslo	Team large hill

Jari Puikkonen (born June 25, 1959 in Lahti) was a former Finnish ski jumper. Puikkonen made his debut internationally in the Four Hills Tournament competition in Oberstdorf on December 30, 1977. He won his first World Cup victory at Innsbruck in 1981. That year he finished third overall in the Four Hills Tournament and he won three more victories in the ski jumping World Cup to finish fifth overall. He also won three medals at the Winter Olympics with a gold in the team large lill (1988 Winter Olympics), and bronze medals in both the individual normal hill (1984 Winter Olympics) and the individual large hill (1980 Winter Olympics).

Puikkonen's biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won seven medals, including four golds (individual large hill: 1989, team large hill: 1984, 1985, 1989), two silvers (individual normal hill: 1982, individual large hill: 1985), and one bronze (team large hill: 1982). He also won a gold medal at the 1981 Ski-flying World Championships.

Puikkonen retired after the 1990-91 season.

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• FIS Profile

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

World champions in ski jumping individual large hill

1925: Willen Dick | 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams | 1927: Tore Edman | 1929: Sigmund Ruud | 1930: Gunnar Andersen | 1931: Birger Ruud | 1933: Marcel Reymond | 1934: Kristian Johansson | 1935: Birger Ruud | 1937: Birger Ruud | 1938: Asbjørn Ruud | 1939: Josef Bradl | 1950: Hans Bjørnstad | 1954: Matti Pietikäinen | 1958: Juhani Kärkinen | 1962: Helmut Recknagel | 1966: Bjørn Wirkola | 1970: Gariy Napalkov | 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach | 1978: Tapio Räisänen | 1982 Matti Nykänen | 1985 Per Bergerud | 1987: Andreas Felder | 1989: Jari Puikkonen | 1991: Franci Petek | 1993: Espen Bredesen | 1995: Tommy Ingebrigtsen | 1997: Masahiko Harada | 1999: Martin Schmitt | 2001: Martin Schmitt | 2003: Adam Małysz | 2005: Janne Ahonen

World Champions in men's ski jumping team large hill

1982 Norway Johan Sætre, Per Bergerud, Ole Bremseth, & Olav Hansson 1984 Finland Markku Pusenius, Pentti Kokkonen, Jari Puikkonen, & Matti Nykänen 1985 Finland Tuomo Ylipulli, Pentti Kokkonen, Matti Nykänen, & Jari Puikkonen 1987 Finland Matti Nykänen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Tuomo Ylipulli, & Pekka Suorsa 1989 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen, & Risto Laakkonen 1991 Austria Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori, Stefan Horngacher, & Andreas Felder 1993 Norway Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg, & Espen Bredesen 1995 Finland Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen, & Ari-Pekka Nikkola 1997 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen, & Janne Ahonen 1999 Germany Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, & Martin Schmitt 2001 Germany Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann, Alexander Herr, & Martin Schmitt 2003 Finland Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi, & Matti Hautamäki 2005 Austria Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern, & Martin Höllwarth