Johanna Saarinen started for Köyliön Lallit . She played her first international championships at the 1991 World Championships in Lahti and was 34th in the sprint. With Seira Hyyitäinen and Tuija Sikiö , she was eighth as the starting runner of the season. The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville were the high point of his careerwhere biathlon was first Olympic for women. Saarinen first started in the sprint, where she was 53rd and missed two targets in both the standing and prone positions. Things went better for the Finn in the singles, where she only failed to score three times in the second shooting and ended up in 45th place. At the Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding in 1993 , she won the team race title with Annuka Mallat and Katja Holanti .
World Cup placements
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
placement
singles
sprint
persecution
Mass start
team
Season
total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring
Starts
1
2
3
Status : End of career, including World Championships and Olympic Games, data probably not complete