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).

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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 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