Toni Nieminen

Toni Nieminen
Full name	Toni Markus Nieminen
nation	Finland
birthday	May 31, 1975
place of birth	Lahti ,  Finland
Career
society	Puijon Hiihtoseura
Pers. Best	203 m ( Planica 1994)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1992 Albertville Large hill bronze 1992 Albertville Normal hill gold 1992 Albertville team  Ski jumping junior world championship gold 1992 Vuokatti singles gold 1992 Vuokatti team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	March 3, 1991
World Cup victories (individual)	09 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 1991/92 )
Ski flying world cup	07th (1993/94)
Jump World Cup	63rd (1997/98)
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 1991/92 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 9 1 2  Team jumping 1 1 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	35th ( 1996 )
last change: February 6, 2016

Toni Markus Nieminen (born May 31, 1975 in Lahti ) is a Finnish ski jumper . Nieminen was the first ski jumper to successfully land a jump over 200 meters. His greatest successes include two Olympic gold medals as well as winning the overall World Cup and the Four Hills Tournament .

Career

1992 to 2004

In 1992, the only 16-year-old Nieminen was one of the first V-style jumpers to dominate the entire ski jumping season at will: he won the Four Hills Tournament, won two gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Albertville and finally achieved 1st place in the overall World Cup. Rank.

After that, Nieminen was never able to build on these successes in 1992. Weight problems due to further growth and the adoption of the V-style by the entire world elite are two of the reasons for the sporting crash.

He wrote sports history again surprisingly on March 17, 1994, when he was the first ski jumper to jump over 200 m on the ski jumping hill in Planica, Slovenia . Although Andreas Goldberger had already reached 202 meters on the same day , he fell on landing. Nieminen's flight at 203 meters is considered to be the first "two hundred".

In the winter of 2001/02 he managed to jump into the top ten twice in the World Cup, and so he was appointed to Finland's squad at the 2002 Winter Olympics . Ten years after his great triumph, he was able to achieve another respectable success with a 16th place on the normal hill.

After the winter of 2003/04 he ended his career.

Career from 2004 and comeback

Since the end of his career, Nieminen had occasionally commented on ski jumping broadcasts on the Finnish TV channel MTV3 as a sports reporter alongside Jani Uotila . Most recently he was also the coach of the Finnish junior national team.

At the end of January 2016 he made his comeback at the Finnish championships in Lahti . On the small Salpausselkä ski jump (HS 97), he finished 17th with jumps on 85.5 m and 87 m (211.5 points). He did not take part in the competition on the large hill (HS 130).

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	1st December 1991	Thunder Bay	Normal hill
2.	December 30, 1991	Oberstdorf	Large hill
3.	4th January 1992	innsbruck	Large hill
4th	January 6, 1992	Bischofshofen	Large hill
5.	February 29, 1992	Lahti	Normal hill
6th	March 1, 1992	Lahti	Large hill
7th	March 11, 1992	Oslo	Large hill
8th.	March 15, 1992	Oslo	Large hill
9.	February 1, 1995	Kuopio	Normal hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	December 9, 2001	Villach	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1991/92	01.	269
1992/93	50.	005
1993/94	52.	047
1994/95	11.	464
1995/96	93.	002
1996/97	92.	006th
1997/98	67.	025th
2000/01	21st	230
2001/02	31.	142
2002/03	54.	028

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1994	46.	181
1995	35.	480
2000	43.	014th
2001	37.	036
2002	43.	015th

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Bischofshofen	Austria	122.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 6, 1992	January 6, 1993
Trondheim	Norway	121.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	March 11, 1992	March 23, 1996
Planica	Slovenia	203.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 17, 1994	March 18, 1994
Lahti	Finland	125.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	March 1, 1996	March 3, 1996

Web links

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