"THE FLYING FINN"AND WORLD STAR SKI JUMPER-OLYMPIC WINNER-from FINLAND

Toni Nieminen

Olympic medal record
Men's Ski jumping
Gold	1992 Albertville	Individual large hill
Gold	1992 Albertville	Team large hill
Bronze	1992 Albertville	Individual normal hill

Toni Nieminen (born May 31, 1975 in Lahti) is a Finnish ski-jumper who competed from 1991 to 2004.

His biggest success came very early in his career at the age of 16, where he won three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, earning two gold medals in the individual and team large hill events; and a bronze medal in the individual normal hill event. That same year, Nieminen went on to win both the ski-jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festivalSki jumping World Cup. and the

In the later stages of his career, Nieminen did not match his earlier accomplishments, though he did become the first man in the world to jump over 200 meters at Planica in 1994.

He is currently establishing himself in Finnish harness racing.

[edit] References

• FIS-Ski: Toni Nieminen – statistics
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)

Awards
Preceded by Kimmo Kinnunen	Finnish Sportspersonality of the year 1992	Succeeded by Juha Kankkunen

[show] v • d • e FIS Ski Jumping World Cup champions 1979–80: Hubert Neuper | 1980–81: Armin Kogler | 1981–82: Armin Kogler | 1982–83: Matti Nykänen | 1983–84: Jens Weissflog | 1984–85: Matti Nykänen | 1985–86: Matti Nykänen | 1986–87: Vegard Opaas | 1987–88: Matti Nykänen | 1988–89: Jan Boklöv | 1989–90: Ari-Pekka Nikkola | 1990–91: Andreas Felder | 1991–92: Toni Nieminen | 1992–93: Andreas Goldberger | 1993–94: Espen Bredesen | 1994–95: Andreas Goldberger | 1995–96: Andreas Goldberger | 1996–97: Primož Peterka | 1997–98: Primož Peterka | 1998–99: Martin Schmitt | 1999–00: Martin Schmitt | 2000–01: Adam Małysz | 2001–02: Adam Małysz | 2002–03: Adam Małysz | 2003–04: Janne Ahonen | 2004–05: Janne Ahonen | 2005–06: Jakub Janda | 2006–07: Adam Małysz | 2007–08: Thomas Morgenstern | 2008–09: Gregor Schlierenzauer

[show] v • d • e Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill 1924: Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) * 1928: Alf Andersen (NOR) * 1932: Birger Ruud (NOR) * 1936: Birger Ruud (NOR) * 1948: Petter Hugsted (NOR) * 1952: Arnfinn Bergmann (NOR) * 1956: Antti Hyvärinen (FIN) * 1960: Helmut Recknagel (EUA) * 1964: Toralf Engan (NOR) * 1968: Vladimir Belussov (URS) * 1972: Wojciech Fortuna (POL) * 1976: Karl Schnabl (AUT) * 1980: Jouko Törmänen (FIN) * 1984: Matti Nykänen (FIN) * 1988: Matti Nykänen (FIN) * 1992: Toni Nieminen (FIN) * 1994: Jens Weissflog (GER) * 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN) * 2002: Simon Ammann (SUI) * 2006: Thomas Morgenstern (AUT)

[show] v • d • e Olympic champions in men's ski jumping team large hill 1988: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Matti Nykänen, Tuomo Ylipulli, & Jari Puikkonen) * 1992: Finland (Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Mika Laitinen, Risto Laakkonen, & Toni Nieminen) * 1994: Germany (Hansjörg Jäkle, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, & Jens Weissflog) * 1998: Japan (Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Masahiko Harada, & Kazuyoshi Funaki) * 2002: Germany (Sven Hannawald, Stephan Hocke, Michael Uhrmann, & Martin Schmitt) * 2006: Austria (Andreas Widhölzl, Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch, & Thomas Morgenstern)

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