Jani Soininen

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Jani Soininen
Medal record

Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Gold	1998 Nagano	Individual normal hill
Silver	1998 Nagano	Individual large hill
World Championships
Gold	1995 Thunder Bay	Team large hill
Gold	1997 Trondheim	Team large hill
Silver	2001 Lahti	Team large hill

Jani Markus Soininen (born November 12, 1972 in Jyväskylä) is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1992 to 2001. He won two medals the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, earning a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill.

His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where earned three medals in the team hill competitions with golds in the 1995, 1997 and silver in 2001 large hill.

References

Jani Soininen at the International Ski Federation

v t e Olympic Champions in Ski Jumping Individual Normal Hill

1964: Veikko Kankkonen (FIN) 1968: Jiří Raška (TCH) 1972: Yukio Kasaya (JPN) 1976: Hans-Georg Aschenbach (GDR) 1980: Toni Innauer (AUT) 1984: Jens Weißflog (GDR) 1988: Matti Nykänen (FIN) 1992: Ernst Vettori (AUT) 1994: Espen Bredesen (NOR) 1998: Jani Soininen (FIN) 2002: Simon Ammann (SUI) 2006: Lars Bystøl (NOR) 2010: Simon Ammann (SUI) 2014: Kamil Stoch (POL)

World champions in men's ski jumping team large hill

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Name	Soininen, Jani
Alternative names
Short description	Ski jumper
Date of birth	November 12, 1972
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