Jari Puikkonen

Jari Puikkonen
Full name	Jari Markus Puikkonen
nation	Finland
birthday	June 25, 1959
place of birth	Lahti ,  Finland
size	180 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura
National squad	since 1977
status	resigned
End of career	1991
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 4 × 2 × 3 × SFWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1980 Lake Placid Large hill bronze 1984 Sarajevo Normal hill gold 1988 Calgary team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1980 Lake Placid Large hill bronze 1982 Oslo team silver 1982 Oslo Normal hill bronze 1984 Sarajevo Normal hill gold 1984 Engelberg team gold 1985 Seefeld team silver 1985 Seefeld Large hill gold 1989 Lahti team gold 1989 Lahti Large hill  Ski flying world championships gold 1981 Oberstdorf singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
World Cup victories (individual)	5 ( details )
Overall World Cup	5. ( 1980/81 )
Four Hills Tournament	3. ( 1980/81 , 1985/86 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 5 11 3

Jari Markus Puikkonen (born June 25, 1959 in Lahti ) is a former Finnish ski jumper . He jumped for the club Lahden Hiihtoseura in his hometown.

Career

He made his debut at an international tournament on December 30, 1977 at the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf . Just a few days later he achieved his first place in the top ten with a seventh place on the Innsbruck Bergisel . In 1981 he also won his first World Cup competition at Bergisel; in the overall ranking of the Four Hills Tournament he was third, in the World Cup he won three more victories in the winter of 1980/81 and was fifth in the overall ranking.

However, Puikkonen achieved his greatest successes at world championships and the Olympic Games. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he won the bronze medal in the individual competition on the large hill, the bronze medal on the normal hill in Sarajevo in 1984 and then gold in the team competition in Calgary in 1988 .

At the Ski Flying World Championships in 1981 in Oberstdorf he won the gold medal, at the Nordic Ski World Championships in 1982 in Oslo the silver medal on the normal hill and bronze with the Finnish team, in 1984 gold at the first and one-time World Team Championships in Engelberg , 1985 silver in Seefeld on the large hill and gold in team jumping, and finally in 1989 in Lahti gold on the large hill and in team jumping. After the 1990/91 season he ended his career.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	4th January 1981	innsbruck	Large hill
2.	March 6, 1981	Lahti	Normal hill
3.	March 7, 1981	Lahti	Large hill
4th	March 21, 1981	Planica	Large hill
5.	4th January 1986	innsbruck	Large hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	10.	087
1980/81	05.	162
1981/82	26th	031
1982/83	010.	097
1983/84	09.	101
1984/85	06th	125
1985/86	14th	086
1986/87	49.	009
1987/88	20th	040
1988/89	18th	045
1989/90	37.	019th

Web links

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