About Samppa Lajunen
Samppa Lajunen is a retired Finnish Winter Olympic Games gold medalist, entrepreneur, and investor. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he became the first athlete to sweep the gold medals at all three Nordic combined events, a feat that was only equalished by Jens Lurås Oftebro twenty four years later at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Lajunen founded Samla Capital in 2015. He also won silver medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano in both the 15 km individual and 4 × 5 km team events. The company focuses on professional real estate investing, managing four funds with nearly 400 investors and assets totaling around 254 million euros. The hotel investment cost was about 116 million euros, with funding coming from London.
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