Janne Lahtela (born 28 February 1974) is a

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

former

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, who established himself as one of the most dominant persons in the history of moguls skiing. He is currently the head coach of Japan's freestyle skiing team. He also is a key founder and sponsor for the IDOne ski company based out of Japan. Lahtela was born in

Kemijärvi Kemijärvi ( se, Giemajávri, smn, Kiemâjävri, sms, Ǩeeʹmmjäuʹrr) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland. History The first permanent settler inhabitant of Kemijärvi was Paavali Ollinpoika H ...

. He won a

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in the moguls final of

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. Four years earlier he had taken a silver medal in front of his cousin

Sami Mustonen Sami Mustonen (born 6 April 1977) is a Finnish freestyle skier and Olympic medallist, who was born in Kemijärvi. He received a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefe ...

, who took bronze. He has also won the moguls skiing World Cup five times and became a World Champion in 1999.

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1974 births Living people People from Kemijärvi Finnish male freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers of Finland Olympic gold medalists for Finland Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Lapland (Finland) {{Finland-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub