Aino-Kaisa Saarinen

Career Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won three bronze medals with one in 2006 (Team sprint) and two in 2010 (30 km, 4 × 5 km relay).

Saarinen also won six medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with four golds (Team sprint: 2009, 10 km: 2009, 4 × 5 km relay: 2007, 2009) and two bronze (7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit: 2009, 10 km: 2011). She has six individual victories in FIS races since 2002, but did not win her first World Cup event until she won the 30 km classical event at the Holmenkollen ski festival on 17 March 2007.

Saarinen finished second in the 2008/09 Tour de Ski behind Virpi Kuitunen.

Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games 5 medals – (2 silver, 3 bronze)

Year Age 10 km individual 15 km skiathlon 30 km mass start Sprint 4 × 5 km relay Team sprint 2006 27 7 — 17 26 7 Bronze 2010 31 15 5 Bronze 13 Bronze — 2014 35 4 5 21 — Silver Silver 2018 39 — — 20 25 4 —

World Championships 10 medals – (4 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze) Year Age 10 km 15 km Pursuit 30 km Sprint 4 × 5 km relay Team sprint 2001 22 — — — 11 — 2003 24 — 25 — 22 29 — 2005 26 — 30 4 8 5 — 2007 28 — 6 4 18 Gold — 2009 30 Gold Bronze 7 — Gold Gold 2011 32 Bronze 8 23 — Bronze Silver 2013 34 — — 17 — — — 2015 36 — 15 7 18 Bronze — 2017 38 — — 14 — Bronze 5

'a.' Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

World Cup Season standings Season Age Discipline standingsSki Tour standingsOverallDistanceLong DistanceMiddle DistanceSprintNordicOpeningTour deSkiWorld CupFinalSki TourCanada 1998 19 — 1999 20 — 2000 21 49 31 2001 22 28 15 2002 23 62 53 2003 24 27 33 2004 25 14 16 7 2005 26 8 17 4 2006 27 12 13 18 2007 28 5 7 4 2008 29 9 8 6 17 11 2009 30 5 16 2010 31 4 6 4 4 9 2011 32 9 7 19 — 13 13 2012 33 8 8 20 7 9 27 2013 34 26 21 35 31 18 2014 35 13 8 21 28 9 24 2015 36 29 28 46 — 13 2016 37 43 — — 2017 38 24 21 41 — 17 19 2018 39 22 19 38 32 15 23

Individual podiums 4 victories – (3 , 1 ) 35 podiums – (24 , 11 )

Team podiums 3 victories – (2 , 1 ) 26 podiums – (20 , 6 )