Jari Isometsä
Jari Isometsä | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jari Olavi Isometsä | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tornio, Finland |
11 September 1968 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski club | Alatornion Pirkat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seasons | 1990-2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual wins | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indiv. podiums | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jari Olavi Isometsä (born 11 September 1968) is a Finnish former cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2006. He won three bronze medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics (1992, 1994, 1998).
Isometsä also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with two silvers (4 x 10 km: 1995, 1997) and two bronzes (4 x 10 km: 1991, 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit: 1995). In the World Cup, he took four victories in races between 10 km and 30 km.
Isometsä was among the six Finnish skiers who were caught of doping in the Finnish 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships scandal for taking hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a blood plasma expander usually used to cover up the use of erythropoietin (EPO) in athletes. He was stripped of his silver medal in the 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit and served a two year suspension from the FIS, IOC, and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), effectively ending his career as a world-class skier.
Since July 2009 Isometsä has worked as a sales manager for football club FC Honka.[1]
In 2013, Isometsä received a 6-month suspended sentence after the Helsinki District Court found that he had committed perjury when witnessing to the court in 2011 that he was unaware of any doping use in the 1990s.[2]
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from Tornio
- Finnish cross-country skiers
- Doping cases in cross-country skiing
- Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Olympic cross-country skiers of Finland
- Finnish sportspeople in doping cases
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- Male cross-country skiers
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Finnish cross-country skiing biography stubs