Jani Markus Soininen, born on 12 November 1972 in Jyväskylä, is a Finnish former ski jumper. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano he won two medals, a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill. His biggest successes came at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he earned three medals in the team hill competitions, with gold in 1995 and 1997 and silver in 2001 on the large hill. Olympedia, the Olympic results database, describes him as one of the top ski jumpers in the world at the end of the 1990s and gives his nicknames as Soikka and Sulo.
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He won two medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, earning a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill. His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he earned three medals in the team hill competitions with gold in 1995 and 1997, and silver in 2001 on the large hill.
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He won two medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, earning a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill.
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