Tanja Poutiainen

Tanja Poutiainen, born on 6 April 1980 in Rovaniemi, Lapland, is a retired Finnish World Cup alpine ski racer who specialised in slalom and giant slalom. She won the silver medal in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. Her first World Cup victory, in a slalom at Levi on 28 February 2004, was the first for a Finnish woman and came at the first alpine World Cup race held in Finland. She won the slalom and giant slalom season titles in 2005 and the giant slalom title in 2009, took the first alpine World Championship medals for a Finnish woman in 2005, and retired in March 2014 with 11 World Cup wins.