Finland’s Team to The 2022 Olympics

by Ingeborg Scheve • 14.01.2022
Kerttu Niskanen lLeft) and brother Iivo Niskanen
Finland has named 13 cross-country skiers to the 2022 Olympics: Six men and seven women are headed for Beijing in February.

The Finnish team to the 2022 Olympics consists of both seasoned and younger cross-country skiers. 

Krista Pärmäkoski, 31, is headed to the Winter Games for the fourth time. 

Also a part of the 2022 Finnish Olympic team are Iivo and Kerttu Niskanen. On December 29, 2021, the brother and sister duo made history as the first siblings to win the same World Cup event on the same day during Tour de Ski:, First, Kerttu won the women’s 10-kilometer individual-start classic event in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Then Iivo won the men’s 15-kilometer individual-start classic event just a couple of hours later.

Riita-Liisa Roponen did not make the team for the Beijing Olympics, which would have been her sixth Olympics. The 43-year-old skied her first Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, and has competed at every edition of the Winter Games since then.

These cross-country skiers are racing for Finland at the 2022 Olympics: 
Men

Iivo Niskanen 
Lauri Vuorinen 
Ristomatti Hakola 
Perttu Hyvärinen 
Joni Mäki 
Remi Lindholm

Women
Krista Pärmäkoski 
Kerttu Niskanen 
Jasmi Joensuu 
Anne Kyllönen 
Katri Lylynperä 
Johanna Matintalo
Jasmin Kähärä

The 2022 Olympics take place in Beijing from February 4 to 20. Last week, the International Olympic Committee and the Beijing Organizing Committee announced that the 2022 Olympics will not be postponed or cancelled

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