Joni Mäki

Joni Mäki
Country	Finland
Born	(1995-01-24) 24 January 1995 (age 27) Vaasa, Finland
Ski club	Pohti Skiteam
World Cup career
Seasons	6 – (2016–present)
Team wins	0
Indiv. podiums	0
Team podiums	2
Indiv. starts	41
Team starts	6
Overall titles	0 – (37th in 2021)
Discipline titles	0
Medal record Men's cross-country skiing Representing  Finland Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Team sprint World Championships 2021 Oberstdorf Team sprint Junior World Championships 2014 Val di Fiemme Individual sprint
Updated on 17 November 2021.

Joni Mäki (born 24 January 1995) is a Finnish cross-country skier. He is a silver medalist in the team sprint at both the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2021 World Championships.

Career[]

As a junior, Mäki won bronze in the sprint event at the 2014 U20 World Championships in Val di Fiemme. He made his World Cup debut in 2014, and placed in the top thirty for the first time in January 2016. So far, he has two podiums in the World Cup, one from team sprint (Planica 2020) and one from relay (Lahti 2021), and his best individual result is a 6th place that he reached at Ruka in the 2021-22 Nordic Opening.

In 2019, at his first World Championships in Seefeld, Mäki placed 13th in the freestyle sprint event, being the first athlete to not qualify into the semi-finals. In the 2021 World Championships in Oberstdorf, he again placed thirteenth in the individual sprint, held this time in the classic style. It was only three days later, though, that Mäki won his first World Championships medal when he and teammate Ristomatti Hakola placed second at the team sprint event. Mäki secured them the silver medal with a solid last leg where he lost to Norwegian Johannes Høsflot Klæbo but passed the Russian Gleb Retivykh who had had a head start in the beginning of the last leg.^[1][2] In the 4 x 10 kilometre relay, he placed sixth along with teammates Hakola, Iivo Niskanen and Perttu Hyvärinen, with whom he'd reached the podium in Lahti earlier in the season.

Mäki started his 2021-22 season well, with success in domestic competitions. He followed this by reaching his first World Cup sprint final in the classical sprint event in Ruka, where he finished sixth. In the weeks after, though, he began suffering from health problems and missed the Tour de Ski, among other World Cup events. In the Beijing Olympics, Mäki was again in good form, reaching the final in the freestyle sprint. Mäki, who has still never reached a freestyle sprint final in World Cup competitions, placed fourth, only a second short of the bronze medal. In the classical team sprint, Mäki won his first Olympic medal when he and the 15 kilometre Olympic champion Iivo Niskanen took home the silver medal.

Mäki has won several medals in Finnish National Championships during the recent years and represents Pohti Ski Team in national competitions. He won the 2020-21 Suomen Cup, the highest-level domestic cross-country competition tournament in Finland.^[3]

Cross-country skiing results[]

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).^[4]

Olympic Games[]

• 1 medal (1 silver)

World Championships[]

• 1 medal – (1 silver)

World Cup[]

Season standings[]

Team podiums[]

• 2 podiums – (1 RL, 1 TS)

No.	Season	Date	Location	Race	Level	Place	Teammate(s)
1	2019–20	22 December 2019	Planica, Slovenia	6 × 1.2 km Team Sprint F	World Cup	3rd	Hakola
2	2020–21	24 January 2021	Lahti, Finland	4 × 7.5 km Relay C/F	World Cup	2nd	Hyvärinen / Hakola / Niskanen

References[]

External links[]

• Joni Mäki at FIS (cross-country)
• Joni Mäki at Olympics.com
• Joni Mäki at Olympedia