Jani Tanskanen | ||||||||||||
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Country represented | Finland | |||||||||||
Born | Jyväskylä, Finland | 28 November 1975|||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||
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Jani Tanskanen (born 28 November 1975) is a Finnish former artistic gymnast. He was the 1997 World Champion on horizontal bar, [1] and the first Finnish gold medalist at the World Championships since 1950. [2] He is the current president of the Athletes' Commission for the International Gymnastics Federation as well as the athlete representative of Men's Artistic Gymnastics. [3]
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