Jouni Kaitainen

Jouni Kaitainen
Full name	Jouni Mikael Kaitainen
nation	Finland
birthday	June 9, 1980
place of birth	Lahti ,  Finland
Career
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura
National squad	since 1997
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme team  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver Saalfelden Gundersen gold 2000 Štrbské Pleso team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	March 11, 1999
Overall World Cup	16. ( 2003/04 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 0 1  team 1 0 0

Jouni Mikael Kaitainen (born June 9, 1980 in Lahti ) is a former Finnish Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Jouni Kaitainen is married and starts for Lahden Hiihtoseura . He has been skiing since 1985 and at an international level since 1997. At the Junior World Championships in 1999 in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer , he won the silver medal behind Samppa Lajunen in the Gundersen competition . In March of that year he made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in a sprint race in Falun and finished twelfth. In January 2000, when he finished eighth in Val di Fiemme , he was among the top ten for the first time. A short time later at the Junior World Championship in 2000 in Štrbské Pleso , he won the gold medal with the Finnish relay, which also included Jaakko Tallus .

In 2003 Kaitainen started in Val di Fiemme for the first time at a Nordic World Ski Championships and won the bronze medal behind Austria and Germany with the Finnish team around Hannu Manninen , Lajunen and Tallus . Two years later he missed a medal with the Finnish team in fourth place in Oberstdorf . In more than 115 World Cup starts (as of December 10, 2007), he was able to achieve places in the top ten 16 times. The best result so far is third place in a Gundersen competition in his home town of Lahti in March 2003. The best result in the overall World Cup was a 16th place in the 2003/04 season .

In 2008 Kaitainen ended his active career.

successes

World Cup victories

team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	February 11, 2005	Pragelato	Season 1

¹With Antti Kuisma and Hannu Manninen .

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place
3rd place	1					1
Top 10	6th	10				16
Scoring
Starts
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Web links

• Jouni Kaitainen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)