Joonas Lindgren

{{short description|Finnish sailor}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|5|31|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Helsinki, Finland

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| classes = Dinghy

| club = Helsingfors Segelklubb

| coach = Jouko Lindgren

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Joonas Lindgren (born 31 May 1986 in Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) class.{{cite web |title=Joonas Lindgren |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/lindgren-joonas-1018287/ |work=London 2012 Olympic Games |publisher=London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=13 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405051244/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/lindgren-joonas-1018287/ |archivedate=5 April 2013}}{{cite sports-reference |title=Joonas Lindgren |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/joonas-lindgren-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417180223/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/joonas-lindgren-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=13 September 2013}} He represented Finland at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training for the Helsinki Sailing Club (Helsingfors Segelklubb) throughout most of his sporting career. His father and personal coach Jouko Lindgren shared bronze medals with Georg Tallberg in the same program at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. As of September 2013, Lindgren is ranked no. 33 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.

Lindgren competed as a skipper in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by finishing twenty-second and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.{{cite news |title=Finland's Lindgren brothers confirmed on Olympic startline |url=http://www.470.org/content.asp?id=5346 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130914080630/http://www.470.org/content.asp?id=5346 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 September 2013 |publisher=470 World Championships |date=25 May 2012 |access-date=10 September 2013}}{{cite news |title=Finland expects Olympic success from its sailors |url=http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Finland+expects+Olympic+success+from+its+sailors+/1329104210006 |publisher=Helsingin Sanomat |date=25 May 2012 |access-date=10 September 2013}} Teaming with his younger brother and skipper Niklas Lindgren in the opening series, the Finnish duo accumulated a net score of 167 to claim a twenty-first spot in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.{{cite web |title=Men's 470 |url=http://www.london2012.com/sailing/event/470-men/phase=sam005910/doc=summary.html |work=London 2012 Olympic Games |publisher=London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=27 November 2012 |archive-date=30 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530111345/http://www.london2012.com/sailing/event/470-men/phase%3Dsam005910/doc%3Dsummary.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |title=Lindgrenien olympiaurakka päätökseen |trans-title=Lindgrens' Olympic contract concluded |language=Finnish |url=http://yle.fi/urheilu/lindgrenien_olympiaurakka_paatokseen/6246706 |publisher=Yle |date=7 August 2012 |access-date=14 September 2013}}