Tanja Poutiainen
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Medal record
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Tanja Tuulia Poutiainen (born 6 April 1980) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Finland. She specialized in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom, and was the silver medalist in the women's giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.
Born in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Poutiainen started skiing at the age of three.[1] She became junior world champion in slalom in 1997 at Schladming, Austria, and also took bronze in the super-G; she made her World Cup debut that March at Vail in the United States. At the 1999 Junior World Championships, she placed third in the giant slalom at Pra-Loup, France.
Poutiainen scored her first World Cup victory – and the first for a female Finnish alpine skier – on 28 February
The 2009 season saw Poutianen take another World Cup discipline title, in giant slalom, as well as bronzes in slalom and giant slalom at the
Poutiainen was notable for her consistency, and between January 2007 and March 2011 she successfully completed every World Cup race she entered – a total of 67.[1]
At the end of the
World Cup results
Season titles
Season | Discipline |
---|---|
2005 |
Giant slalom |
Slalom | |
2009 |
Giant slalom |
Season standings
Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1998 |
17 | 73 | 50 | 28 | — | — | — |
1999 |
18 | 95 | — | 41 | — | — | — |
2000 |
19 | ||||||
2001 |
20 | 20 | 12 | 12 | — | — | — |
2002 |
21 | 12 | 7 | 10 | — | — | — |
2003 |
22 | 11 | 3 | 14 | — | — | — |
2004 |
23 | 9 | 4 | 5 | — | — | — |
2005 |
24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 48 | — | — |
2006 |
25 | 12 | 5 | 8 | — | — | 26 |
2007 |
26 | 7 | 6 | 2 | — | — | 22 |
2008 |
27 | 8 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
2009 |
28 | 5 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — |
2010 |
29 | 11 | 9 | 5 | — | — | — |
2011 |
30 | 7 | 2 | 3 | — | — | — |
2012 |
31 | 13 | 6 | 13 | — | — | — |
2013 |
32 | 13 | 5 | 22 | — | — | — |
2014 |
33 | 54 | 26 | 23 | — | — | — |
Race victories
11 wins – (5 giant slalom, 6 slalom)
Season | Date | Location | Discipline |
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2004 |
24 Feb 2004 | Levi, Finland | Slalom |
2005 |
26 Nov 2004 | Aspen, USA | Giant slalom |
28 Nov 2004 | Slalom | ||
21 Dec 2004 | Altenmarkt, Austria | Slalom | |
20 Jan 2005 | Zagreb, Croatia | Slalom | |
2007 |
10 Mar 2007 | Zwiesel, Germany | Giant slalom |
2008 |
15 Feb 2008 | Zagreb, Croatia | Slalom |
2009 |
13 Dec 2008 | La Molina, Spain | Giant slalom |
2010 |
24 Oct 2009 | Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom |
24 Jan 2010 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Giant slalom | |
2011 |
11 Jan 2011 | Flachau, Austria | Slalom |
World Championship results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1997 | 16 | 17 | DNF2 | — | — | — |
1999 | 18 | 24 | 14 | — | — | — |
2001 | 20 | DNF2 | 13 | — | — | — |
2003 | 22 | 10 | 23 | — | — | — |
2005 | 24 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
2007 | 26 | 14 | 14 | — | — | — |
2009 | 28 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
2011 | 30 | 6 | 13 | — | — | — |
2013 | 32 | 4 | 15 | — | — | — |
Olympic results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1998 | 17 | 18 | 26 | — | — | — |
2002 | 21 | DNF2 | 11 | — | — | — |
2006 | 25 | 6 | 2 | — | — | — |
2010 | 29 | 6 | 13 | — | — | — |
2014 | 33 | 12 | 14 | — | — | — |
References
- ^ Fédération Internationale de Ski. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ Fédération Internationale de Ski. 11 March 2014. Archived from the originalon 9 April 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
External links
Media related to Tanja Poutiainen at Wikimedia Commons
- Tanja Poutiainen at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Tanja Poutianen World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
- Tanja Poutiainen at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Tanja Poutiainen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Fischer Skis – Tanja Poutiainen
- Official website