Finnish figure skater

Jenni Saarinen (born 9 March 1999) is a Finnish figure skater. She is a two-time Challenger series bronze medalist, a two-time Nordics champion (2015, 2019), the 2018 Christmas Cup silver medalist, and the 2022 Finnish national champion. She has competed in the final segment at three ISU Championships.

Contents

• 1 Personal life
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Early years
  • 2.2 2013–14 season
  • 2.3 2014–15 to present
• 3 Programs
• 4 Compe*ive highlights
• 5 Detailed results
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Personal life

Jenni Saarinen was born on 9 March 1999 in Espoo, Finland. She practiced gymnastics for five years as a child.

Career

Early years

Saarinen started skating when she was about five years old. She began competing on the junior international level in autumn 2012 and was *igned to the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan, Italy, where she finished 14th.

2013–14 season

Saarinen made her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut and won the junior *le at the 2014 Finnish Championships. She placed 13th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2014–15 to present

Saarinen continued competing on the JGP series before making her senior international debut at the 2014 Finlandia Trophy, a Challenger Series (CS) event. In November 2014, she won a bronze medal at the CS Volvo Open Cup. In the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn she placed 8th in the short program, and 13th overall.

In the 2015–16 season, Saarinen was *igned to the 2015 Tallinn Trophy, but withdrew before the short program. In December, she won the silver medal at the 2016 Finnish Figure Skating Championships, only 0.15 points behind Anni Järvenpää. She was 3rd in the short program, and won the free skating.

Saarinen made her senior World Championship debut at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, placing twenty-fourth. This result qualified a place for Finland at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The following season, Saarinen won the senior Finnish national *le for the first time, and made the free skate at the 2022 European Championships, finishing eighteenth. Named to the Finnish Olympic team, Saarinen placed twenty-fifth in the short program of the Olympic women's event. This would normally have had her one ordinal outside qualification to the free skate, but due to the controversial Court of Arbitration for Sport decision allowing Kamila Valieva to compete in the event despite suspicion of illegal doping the International Olympic Committee decreed that twenty-five skaters would advance. Saarinen finished twenty-fifth overall. She was twenty-fifth as well at the 2022 World Championships.

Programs

Compe*ive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted in bold.

References

External links

• Jenni Saarinen at the International Skating Union