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.
Jenni Saarinen | |
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![]() Saarinen in 2015 | |
Personal information | |
Country represented | Finland |
Born | (1999-03-09) 9 March 1999 (age 23) Espoo, Finland |
Home town | Tampere, Finland |
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) |
Coach | Minna Järvinen Michael Huth |
Former coach | Christina Wendelin Stefan Zins Susanna Haarala Maaret Siromaa Jarkko Näppilä |
Choreographer | Adam Solya Mark Pillay |
Former choreographer | Elina Ikonen Sergei Komolov |
Skating club | Koovee |
Former skating club | Tappara SC |
Training locations | Tampere Oberstdorf, Germany Val Gardena, Italy |
Began skating | 2004 |
World standing | 58 (2020–21) 78 (2019–20) 85 (2018–19) 117 (2017–18) 113 (2016–17) 80 (2015–16) 49 (2014–15) 99 (2013–14) 184 (2012–13) |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 181.20 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy |
Short program | 68.71 2021 CS Warsaw Cup |
Free skate | 121.14 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy |
Jenni Saarinen was born on 9 March 1999 in Espoo, Finland. She practiced gymnastics for five years as a child.[1]
Saarinen started skating when she was about five years old.[1] She began competing on the junior international level in autumn 2012 and 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.
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 eighteenth.[6] 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.[7] Saarinen finished twenty-fifth overall.[8] She was twenty-fifth as well at the 2022 World Championships.[6]
Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2022–2023 [9] |
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2021–2022 |
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2020–2021 [10] |
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2019–2020 [11] |
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2018–2019 |
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2017–2018 |
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2016–2017 |
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2015–2016 |
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2014–2015 [1] |
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2013–2014 [12] |
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2012–2013 [13] |
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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 | 25th | ||||||||||
Worlds | 24th | 25th | |||||||||
Europeans | 33rd | 18th | |||||||||
GP Finland | TBD | ||||||||||
GP France | C | ||||||||||
CS Asian Open | 5th | ||||||||||
CS Cup of Tyrol | C | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Denkova-Staviski | 4th | ||||||||||
FBMA Trophy | 4th | ||||||||||
Nordics | 1st | 4th | 12th | 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 |
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted in bold.
2021–22 season | |||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
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March 21–27, 2022 | 2022 World Championships | 25 55.30 |
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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 | 25 56.97 |
25 96.07 |
25 153.04 | |
January 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships | 16 58.93 |
19 101.39 |
18 160.32 | |
November 17–20, 2021 | 2021 CS Warsaw Cup | 2 68.71 |
16 96.14 |
9 164.85 | |
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 | |
September 23–26, 2020 | 2020 Nebelhorn Trophy | 4 57.25 |
2 106.62 |
3 163.87 | |
2019–20 season | |||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
October 11–13, 2019 | 2020 European Championships | 33 42.61 |
— | 33 42.61 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Finnish champions in figure skating – Women's singles | |
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