Jouko Törmänen

Jouko Törmänen
Full name	Jouko Sihveri foolish ears
nation	Finland
birthday	April 10, 1954
place of birth	Rovaniemi ,  Finland
size	173 cm
Weight	65 kg
date of death	January 3, 2015
Place of death	Rovaniemi ,  Finland
Career
society	Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura
End of career	1982
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1980 Lake Placid K120  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1980 Lake Placid K120
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
World Cup victories (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	19. ( 1979/80 )
Four Hills Tournament	09. ( 1977/78 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 1

Jouko Sihveri Törmänen (born April 10, 1954 in Rovaniemi ; † January 3, 2015 there ) was a Finnish ski jumper and sports official.

Career

He made his first appearance at an international jumping competition on January 6, 1968 at the Four Hills Tournament at Innsbruck's Bergisel . He immediately reached sixth place, but it was to be his only appearance for two years. From 1972 to 1982 he took part in all the jumping competitions on the tour. But he only achieved a podium place once, namely in 1978 a third place in Innsbruck.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1974 in Falun he reached fifth place on the large hill, and sixth at the 1978 World Championships in Lahti .

At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck he reached 14th place on the normal hill and tenth place on the large hill, at the 1980 Games in Lake Placid he surprisingly won the gold medal on the large hill after eighth on the normal hill. It was his first win at an international tournament. Since the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1980 were held as part of the Olympic Games, he was also world champion. In the ski jumping world cup, which was held for the first time in the 1979/80 season, he managed to win another 1980 in Falun. His successes also include four titles at Finnish championships: in 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1980 he won on the normal hill. After the winter of 1981/82, he ended his sports career.

In 1988 he became a member of the Finnish Ski Sports Federation. From 1993 to 2002 he was Vice President. In 1992 he became chairman of the ski jumping and Nordic combined department. In June 2004, after Torbjørn Yggeseth's resignation, he became FIS Chairman of the International Ski Federation in the discipline of ski jumping.

Törmänen died on January 3, 2015 at the age of 60 in a hospital in his hometown of Rovaniemi.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 11, 1980	Falun	Normal hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	19th	65
1980/81	35.	21st

Web links

• Jouko Törmänen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jouko Törmänen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Ski Championships 1974 Men's K90 ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
2. ↑ World Ski Championships 1978 Men's K120 ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
3. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
4. ↑ Ski Jumping at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Large Hill, Individual ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
5. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's Large Hill, Individual ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
6. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
7. ↑ Olympic ski jumping champion Törmänen died. ( Memento of January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Handelsblatt of January 4, 2015 (accessed on January 5, 2015).