Jenni Saarinen
Jenni Saarinen (born 9 March 1999) is a Finnish retired competitive 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. Saarinen represented Finland at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Personal life
Jenni Saarinen was born on 9 March 1999 in Espoo, Finland. She practiced gymnastics for five years as a child.[1]
Career
Early years
Saarinen started skating when she was about five years old.[1] She began competing on the junior international level in the autumn of 2012. She was assigned to the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan, Italy, where she finished 14th.
Saarinen made her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut and won the junior title at the 2014 Finnish Championships.[2] She placed 13th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Senior career
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 assigned to the 2015 Tallinn Trophy but withdrew before the short program.[3] 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.[4] This result qualified a place for Finland at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[5] The following season, Saarinen won the senior Finnish national title for the first time and made the free skate at the 2022 European Championships, finishing seventeenth; she originally finished eighteenth overall,[6] but the retroactive disqualification of Kamila Valieva resulted in all other ladies singles skaters moving up a place. 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 (CAS) decision allowing Valieva to compete in the event despite suspicion of illegal doping the International Olympic Committee decreed that twenty-five skaters would advance.[7] Saarinen finished twenty-fourth overall; she originally finished twenty-fifth overall,[8] but Valieva was disqualified by the CAS in 2024 and all skaters who originally placed fifth or lower moved up a place. She was twenty-fifth as well at the 2022 World Championships.[6]
Illness delayed the start of Saarinen's 2022–23 season, while she also struggled with motivation and had it affect her everyday life. After finishing twelfth at the 2022 CS Ice Challenge, Saarinen decided that she would retire following the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo, the second special Grand Prix event held in Finland. She placed ninth at the event and explained afterward that she had "a long, great career with ups and downs. I'm starting to get to the point in life where there are other things in life."[9]
Programs
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2022–2023 [10] |
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2021–2022 |
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2020–2021 [11] |
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2019–2020 [12] |
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2018–2019 |
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2017–2018 | |||
2016–2017 |
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2015–2016 | |||
2014–2015 [1] |
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2013–2014 [13] |
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2012–2013 [14] |
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Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[6] | |||||||||||
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Event | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
Olympics | 24th | ||||||||||
Worlds | 24th | 25th | |||||||||
Europeans | 33rd | 17th | |||||||||
GP Finland | 9th | ||||||||||
CS Asian Open | 5th | ||||||||||
CS Finlandia Trophy | 5th | 4th | 12th | ||||||||
CS Ice Challenge | 12th | ||||||||||
CS Lombardia Trophy | 9th | ||||||||||
CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 3rd | ||||||||||
CS Tallinn Trophy | WD | 17th | |||||||||
CS Volvo Cup | 3rd | ||||||||||
CS Warsaw Cup | 10th | 9th | |||||||||
Challenge Cup | 8th | 12th | 10th | ||||||||
Christmas Cup | 2nd | ||||||||||
Cup of Tyrol | 4th | ||||||||||
Denkova-Staviski | 4th | ||||||||||
FBMA Trophy | 4th | ||||||||||
Nordics | 1st | 4th | 12th | 6th | 1st | 3rd | |||||
NRW Trophy | 3rd | 5th | |||||||||
International: Junior[6] | |||||||||||
Junior Worlds | 14th | 13th | 13th | ||||||||
JGP Czech Rep. | 7th | ||||||||||
JGP Japan | 9th | ||||||||||
JGP Poland | 10th | ||||||||||
JGP Slovenia | 9th | ||||||||||
EYOF | 4th | ||||||||||
Bavarian Open | 1st | ||||||||||
Cup of Nice | 3rd | ||||||||||
Ice Star | 1st | ||||||||||
Nordics | 1st | 1st | |||||||||
National[6] | |||||||||||
Finnish Champ. | 3rd J | 1st J | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | C | 1st | |
J = Junior level; WD = Withdrew; C = Event Cancelled |
Detailed results
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted in bold.
2022–23 season | ||||
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Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
November 25–27, 2022 | 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo | 8 59.69 | 11 95.95 | 9 155.64 |
November 9–13, 2022 | 2022 CS Ice Challenge | 11 51.60 | 10 101.68 | 12 153.28 |
2021–22 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 21–27, 2022 | 2022 World Championships | 25 55.30 | - | 25 55.30 |
February 24–27, 2022 | 2022 Challenge Cup | 3 57.48 | 13 84.22 | 10 141.70 |
February 15–17, 2022 | 2022 Winter Olympics | 24 56.97 | 24 96.07 | 24 153.04 |
January 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships | 15 58.93 | 18 101.39 | 17 160.32 |
November 17–20, 2021 | 2021 CS Warsaw Cup | 2 68.71 | 16 96.14 | 9 164.85 |
November 4–7, 2021 | 2021 NRW Trophy | 3 57.26 | 6 91.04 | 5 148.30 |
October 13–17, 2021 | 2021 Asian Open Trophy | 3 62.25 | 8 92.20 | 5 154.45 |
October 7–10, 2021 | 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy | 7 67.05 | 17 101.67 | 12 168.72 |
2020–21 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 22–28, 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 14 63.54 | 24 83.00 | 24 146.54 |
February 25–28, 2021 | 2021 International Challenge Cup | 11 52.23 | 13 88.93 | 12 141.16 |
November 26–29, 2020 | 2020 NRW Trophy | 6 51.92 | 3 96.03 | 3 147.95 |
September 23–26, 2020 | 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy | 4 57.25 | 2 106.62 | 3 163.87 |
2019–20 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
February 20–23, 2020 | 2020 Challenge Cup | 4 61.03 | 13 93.82 | 8 154.85 |
February 5–9, 2020 | 2019 Nordic Championships | 4 54.76 | 1 116.47 | 3 171.23 |
January 20–26, 2020 | 2020 European Championships | 33 42.61 | — | 33 42.61 |
November 14–17, 2019 | 2019 CS Warsaw Cup | 8 55.37 | 12 105.27 | 10 160.64 |
October 11–13, 2019 | 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy | 4 60.06 | 4 121.14 | 4 181.20 |
September 13–15, 2019 | 2019 CS Lombardia Trophy | 6 57.66 | 9 103.98 | 9 161.64 |
2018–19 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
February 7–10, 2019 | 2019 Nordic Championships | 1 56.07 | 1 106.56 | 1 162.63 |
December 14–16, 2018 | 2019 Finnish Championships | 3 54.51 | 2 105.28 | 3 159.79 |
2017–18 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
February 4–8, 2018 | 2018 Nordic Championships | 4 50.31 | 6 84.70 | 6 135.01 |
November 21–26, 2017 | 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy | 9 53.87 | 19 84.88 | 17 138.75 |
31 October – 4 November 2017 | 2017 Denkova-Staviski Cup | 2 55.93 | 8 79.58 | 4 135.51 |
2016–17 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 2–5, 2017 | 2017 Nordic Championships | 6 48.63 | 14 58.65 | 12 107.28 |
January 5–7, 2017 | 2017 FBMA Trophy | 7 39.57 | 2 86.82 | 4 126.39 |
December 15–18, 2016 | 2017 Finnish Championships | 3 52.25 | 2 87.24 | 2 139.49 |
2015–16 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 9–13, 2016 | 2016 Cup of Tyrol | 5 51.45 | 5 82.03 | 4 133.48 |
February 24–28, 2016 | 2016 Nordic Championships | 4 54.37 | 4 94.32 | 4 148.69 |
December 18–20, 2015 | 2016 Finnish Championships | 3 51.62 | 1 103.14 | 2 154.76 |
2014–15 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total@ |
March 2–8, 2015 | 2015 World Junior Championships | 8 55.43 | 15 84.07 | 13 139.50 |
February 11–15, 2015 | 2015 Nordic Championships | 2 50.09 | 2 95.98 | 1 146.07 |
January 26–28, 2015 | 2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival | 8 43.69 | 3 85.24 | 4 128.93 |
November 18–22, 2014 | 2015 Finnish Championships | 2 52.81 | 2 104.19 | 2 157.00 |
November 5–9, 2014 | 2014 CS Volvo Open Cup | 1 50.05 | 4 91.25 | 3 141.30 |
October 9–12, 2014 | 2014 CS Finlandia Trophy | 6 48.55 | 4 95.61 | 5 144.16 |
2013–14 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 10–16, 2014 | 2014 World Junior Championships | 8 53.76 | 13 87.26 | 13 141.02 |
References
- ^ a b c "Jenni SAARINEN: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.
- ^ Paasonen, Elina (15 December 2013). "Tapparan Saarinen juhli Suomen mestarina" [Saarinen wins Finnish junior title] (in Finnish). Aamulehti.
- ^ "Jenni Saarinen, taitoluistelu - Frontpage". Jennisaarinen.com. 2014-06-07. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
- ^ "ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2021 Results – Ladies". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Communication No. 2388". International Skating Union. April 1, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Competition Results: Jenni SAARINEN". International Skating Union.
- ^ Penny, Brandon (February 15, 2022). "As it happened: ROC, U.S. skaters star in women's short program". NBC Sports.
- ^ Penny, Brandon (17 February 2022). "Re-live every moment of the historic Olympic women's free skate". NBC Sports.
- ^ "Jenni Saarinen, 23, lopetti uransa – "En enää nauttinut"" [Jenni Saarinen, 23, ended her career - "I no longer enjoyed it"]. Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 26 November 2022.
- ^ "Jenni Saarinen : 2022/2023". ISU Results. ISU. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
- ^ "Jenni SAARINEN: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020.
- ^ "Jenni SAARINEN: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 September 2019.
- ^ "Jenni SAARINEN: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014.
- ^ "Jenni SAARINEN: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013.
External links
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- Jenni Saarinen at the International Skating Union
- Jenni Saarinen at Olympedia
- Jenni Saarinen at Olympics.com
- Jenni Saarinen at Olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish)
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