Jari Isometsä

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Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Bronze	1992 Albertville	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1994 Lillehammer	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1998 Nagano	4 x 10 km
World Championships
Silver	1995 Thunder Bay	4 x 10 km
Silver	1997 Trondheim	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1991 Val di Fiemme	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1995 Thunder Bay	10 km + 15 km combined pursuit
Disqualified	2001 Lahti	10 km + 10 km combined pursuit

Jari Olavi Isometsä (born September 11, 1968 in Alatornio) was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2006. He won three bronze medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics (1992, 1994, 1998).

Isometsä also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with two silvers (4 x 10 km: 1995, 1997) and two bronzes (4 x 10 km: 1991, 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit: 1995). He also won 18 FIS World Cup races between 10 km and 30 km during 1993-2005.

Isometsä's career was tarnished at the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships when he was among six skiers (All Finnish) who were disqualified for doping by taking hydroxyetyhl starch, a blood plasma expander. He would be stripped of his silver medal in the 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit and serve a two year suspension from the FIS, IOC, and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).