Aino-Kaisa Saarinen

Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (born 1 February 1979) is a retired Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the World Cup between 1998 and 2018. With 354 individual World Cup starts, Saarinen is the current record holder for both men and women, with Stefanie Böhler in second place with 343.

Career
Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won three bronze medals with one in 2006 (Team sprint) and two in 2010 (30 km, 4 × 5 km relay).

Saarinen also won six medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with four golds (Team sprint: 2009, 10 km: 2009, 4 × 5 km relay: 2007, 2009) and two bronze (7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit: 2009, 10 km: 2011). She has six individual victories in FIS races since 2002, but did not win her first World Cup event until she won the 30 km classical event at the Holmenkollen ski festival on March 17, 2007.

Saarinen finished second in the 2008/09 Tour de Ski behind Virpi Kuitunen.

Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games

 * 5 medals – (2 silver, 3 bronze)

World Championships

 * 10 medals – (4 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze)


 * 'a.' Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

Individual podiums

 * 4 victories – (3 WC, 1 SWC)
 * 35 podiums – (24 WC, 11 SWC)

Team podiums

 * 3 victories – (2 RL, 1 TS)
 * 26 podiums – (20 RL, 6 TS)