Samppa Lajunen is a retired Finnish Nordic combined skier, born on 23 April 1979 in Turku, who won five medals at the Winter Olympic Games. His career highlight came at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he won all three gold medals in the Nordic combined events, the first athlete to sweep the discipline. He had earlier taken silver medals in both the 15 km individual and the 4 by 5 km team events at the 1998 Games in Nagano. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he won eight medals, one of them gold in the 1999 team event. He ended his career after the 2003 to 2004 season at the age of twenty four, studied economics, and later founded the real estate investment firm Samla Capital.
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his career highlight came at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City
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A winner of five Winter Olympic Games medals
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is a retired Finnish Winter Olympic Games gold medalist
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At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he became the first athlete to sweep the gold medals at all three Nordic combined events
Competed In: 1998 Winter Olympics, Olympic career, 1998-winter-olympics
He also won silver medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano in both the 15 km individual and 4 × 5 km team events.
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