Jari Isometsä

Jari Isometsä
nation	Finland
birthday	11th September 1968 (age 51)
place of birth	Alatornio , Finland
Career
society	Alatornion Pirkat
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 3 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1992 Albertville Season bronze 1994 Lillehammer Season bronze 1998 Nagano Season  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1991 Val di Fiemme Season silver 1995 Thunder Bay Season bronze 1995 Thunder Bay 25 km pursuit silver 1997 Trondheim Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup March 10, 1990  World Cup victories in individual 4 ( details )  Overall World Cup 2. ( 1999/2000 )  Sprint World Cup 6. ( 1997/98 )  Distance World Cup 1. ( 1999/2000 ) middle distance
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 4th 8th 11

Jari Olavi Isometsä (born September 11, 1968 in Alatornio ) is a former Finnish cross-country skier .

Athletic career

Isometsä won bronze medals with the Finnish team at the Winter Olympics in 1992 , 1994 and 1998 . With the Finnish relay he was also able to win two silver medals ( 1995 , 1997 ) and one bronze medal ( 1991 ) at Nordic World Ski Championships . In the pursuit competition he got his only medal in an individual competition with the bronze medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 .

Isometsä has won four World Cup competitions during his career. His first World Cup victory came in 1996 in his home town of Lahti over the 30 kilometer freestyle , where he could relegate Bjørn Dæhlie to second place. In March 2000, Isometsä was in Bormio, Italy, for the last time on the top step of the podium. There he won the pursuit competition in front of Johann Mühlegg . Between 1994 and 2000 he was able to place in the top ten of the overall World Cup every season . In 1994 and 1996 he was third in the overall ranking and in 2000 he was second behind Johann Mühlegg. This year he also won the one-time Middle Distance World Cup.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2001 Isometsä finished second behind Per Elofsson in the pursuit competition. During the doping control carried out afterwards, however, the ingestion of the blood plasma expander hydroxyethyl starch was proven. Isometsä lost his silver medal and was subsequently suspended from doping by the FIS for two years.

After his doping ban, Isometsä returned to the World Cup in 2003, but could no longer place in the front field. In 2006 he ended his career after the 15 km classic competition in Otepää , Estonia , where he finished 40th.

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 3, 1996	Lahti	30 km freestyle
2.	February 5, 2000	Lillehammer	20 km pursuit
3.	February 16, 2000	Ulrichen	10 km freestyle
4th	March 19, 2000	Bormio	15 km pursuit

World Cup overall placements

season	total		Long distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1989/90	6th	40.	-	-	-	-
1990/91	-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	21st	22nd	-	-	-	-
1992/93	126	22nd	-	-	-	-
1993/94	442	3.	-	-	-	-
1994/95	525	5.	-	-	-	-
1995/96	617	3.	-	-	-	-
1996/97	363	6th	66	16.	238	6th
1997/98	316	5.	176	5.	140	9.
1998/99	370	8th.	90	15th	-	-
1999/2000	708	2.	97 596	12. 1. 1	15th	53.
2000/01	81	53.	-	-	-	-
2001/02	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	29	78.	-	-	-	-
2003/04	15th	119.	15th	79. 2	-	-

¹ Middle distance world cup.

² Distance World Cup.

Web links

• Jari Isometsä in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jari Isometsä in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIS confirmed doping bans against Finnish cross-country skiers ( memento from September 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), netzeitung.de, accessed on September 16, 2013