Janne Holmén

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Men's athletics
Medal record


EAA European Championships
Gold	2002 Munich	Marathon

Janne Holmén (born 26 September 1977 in Jomala, Åland) is a Finnish long distance runner. Holmén's biggest achievement to date is winning the marathon event in the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich, Germany, finishing in 2:12:04. In the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Holmén finished in 22nd place, with the time 2:17:50. His personal record time is 2:10:46. In the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden, Holmén finished in seventh place with a time of 2:13:10. In the 2007 World Championships in Athletics Janne Hólmen took ninth place with time of 2:19:36.

Janne Holmén featured on an Åland postage stamp

Holmén comes from a family of runners; his mother Nina was herself a European champion on 3000 metres in the 1974 European Championships, and his father Rune serves as his trainer, in addition to being a former runner.

Holmén currently lives in Uppsala, Sweden, with wife Laila Skah (sister of Khalid Skah) and two sons. He has been studying at the University of Uppsala, and in 2006 he obtained a doctoral degree for his thesis Den politiska läroboken: Bilden av USA och Sovjetunionen i norska, svenska och finländska läroböcker under Kalla kriget, a study of Scandinavian school books and their portrayal of the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.