Aivar Rehemaa

Aivar Rehemaa
Aivar Rehemaa (2010)
nation	Estonia
birthday	September 28, 1982
place of birth	Tartu ,  Soviet Union
size	195 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
society	SK Sparta
Trainer	Anatoly Šmigun
status	not active
End of career	2017
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × National medals 5 × 7 × 2 ×
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 2002 Schonach 30 km classic
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup February 10, 2001  Overall World Cup 32nd ( 2008/09 )  Sprint World Cup 58th (2008/09)  Distance World Cup 26th (2008/09)  Tour de Ski 16. ( 2008/09 )
last change: August 8, 2019

Aivar Rehemaa (born September 28, 1982 in Tartu , Estonian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Estonian cross-country skier . In 2002 he became the first Estonian cross-country skier to win a gold medal at the Junior World Championships.

life and career

Life

Rehemaa comes from a cross-country skiing family. His aunt Rutt Rehemaa is a former cross-country skier and the mother of the internationally successful cross-country skier Kristina Šmigun-Vähi and the former junior world champion Katrin Šmigun . Rehemaa is trained by his uncle, the two-time junior world champion from 1972 in cross-country skiing, Anatoli Šmigun . His older sister Jana was also an active cross-country skier until 2007.

In addition to cross-country skiing, Rehemaa is also actively involved in football . He is a striker for FC Otepää in the fourth Estonian football league.

In November 2009, Aivar Rehemaa married his long-time friend Annika. The couple lives with their son, who was born in May 2010, and Annika's daughter from their first marriage in the winter sports resort of Otepää .

Career

After a rather moderate success at the Junior World Championships in 2001 in Karpacz , where his best result of 36th place over 30 kilometers freestyle was (over 10 kilometers, it was 40th in Sprint 42.) won Rehemaa a year later at the Junior World Championships in Schonach the Gold medal in the mass start competition over the distance of 30 kilometers classic. He was able to break away from the top group several kilometers before the end of the race and was the first to cross the finish line with a lead of over 20 seconds. It was the first men's junior title that an Estonian cross-country skier could win. Only his cousins ​​Katrin and Kristina had succeeded in doing this before. He could not confirm the result over the 10 kilometer freestyle. There it was only enough for a 27th place.

Rehemaa contested his first World Cup race in February 2001 in his native Otepää. He took 61st place out of 65 participants. From the 2002/03 season he was regularly used in the World Cup. So he managed to book his first World Cup points in January 2003. At the mass start competition in Otepää over 30 kilometers classic he reached the finish line in 27th place. Two weeks later he finished 24th - again in a mass start competition in classic technology. These results enabled him to participate in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 . There he finished 19th in the classic mass start competition over 30 kilometers. In the sprint, which was held in the free technique, he was 41st and in the pursuit competition 42nd. With the Estonian relay, he was able to fight for eighth place.

In the following years, Rehemaa's development stagnated and he rarely managed to win one or the other World Cup point. Nevertheless, he was nominated for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . There his best result was the 32nd place in the pursuit competition. Over 50 kilometers he was 35th and in the sprint he reached 54th place. He finished eighth in the Estonian cross-country relay. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2007 in Sapporo , Japan , he took 32nd place over the classic 50 kilometers. However, this made him the worst-placed Estonian starter. In the skiathlon, he was 42nd and twelfth with the relay. Only in the 2007/08 season did his performance stabilize and he regularly achieved results around 30th place. At the beginning of the 2008/09 season he just missed the World Cup points as 33rd in Gällivare over 30 km freestyle. But a week later, Rehemaa could look forward to his best result in the World Cup. In the sprint in Kuusamo , which was carried out in the classic technique, he made it into the top 20 athletes for the first time. With the 18th place the tall athlete fought for more World Cup points than he was able to achieve in his best season 2007/08. He was also able to run into the points again in the classic 15 kilometer competition. After a 15th place over 30 kilometers freestyle in La Clusaz , Rehemaa was able to collect more points with 42 points after 4 competitions than he was able to achieve in all previous years in total (31). How much he has improved his performance, branched off at the start of the Tour de Ski 2008/09 . At the prologue in Oberhof, he was among the top ten for the first time and in fourth place missed the podium by 0.3 seconds. After a constant tour with good finishes, especially in the distance competitions he finished the Tour de Ski at No. 17. After a long competition break succeeded Rehemaa in Valdidentro at the last World Cup before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 with eighth place some 15 km his first top ten Result in the classic technique. At the World Championships in Liberec , however, he could not confirm this result and only took 39th place over the same distance when his compatriot Andrus Veerpalu won . In the pursuit competition he showed himself in the front of the field at the beginning of the race, but quickly lost the connection on the freestyle track and finished in 29th place. In the team sprint, which was carried out in the classic technique, he reached the final run with Veerpalu, where they took eighth place. The Estonian team also achieved this place in the relay competition. In the final 50 kilometer freestyle competition (mass start), Rehemaa was able to confirm the good shape of the season after the disappointing results and kept up with the top group for a long time and ended up in tenth place.

Rehemaa at the 2014 Olympics

Rehemaa could not confirm the good results in the 2009/10 season . After moderate results he was only able to fight for the 15 kilometer freestyle as 23rd World Cup points in Davos . Also in the Tour de Ski he was only able to convince in the sprint in Prague in 17th place, but had to end the tour after the competition in Prague due to health problems. At the World Cup in Otepää, in the absence of the world's elite, he achieved his best result in a distance race this season with 19th place over 15 kilometers. The 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver were also disappointing for Rehemaa. After a 51st place over 15 kilometers freestyle, the 37th place followed in the pursuit competition. With the Estonian relay he finished 14th and last place. In the final race over 50 kilometers classic he was 34.

At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo , Norway , he was 32nd in free technique over 50 kilometers and finished 57th in the skiathlon. With the relay he was tenth. Two years later, at the 2013 World Championships in Fiemme Valley , Italy , he finished seventh over 15 kilometers in free technique, the individual placement of his career at the Nordic World Ski Championships. In the other races he could not build on this performance as 29th in the skiathlon, 43rd over 50 kilometers in the classic technique and 15th in the relay competition.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , he came in 40th over 15 kilometers in classic technique, 44th over 50 kilometers in free technique and 50th in skiathlon. He finished tenth with the Estonian cross-country relay. At the 2015 World Championships in Falun , Sweden , he first came 29th in skiathlon and over 15 kilometers in free technique. After finishing 16th in the relay, he finished the world championships with 26th place over 50 kilometers in classic technique. At the end of his career at the 2017 World Championships in Lahti, Finland , he achieved 32nd place over 15 kilometers in classic technique, 34th place in skiathlon, 49th place over 50 kilometers in classical technique and 13th with the Estonian cross-country relay . Rank.

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10	2		2						4th		8th
Scoring	4th		12	2	1	3	6th	1	29	2	17th
Starts	10	10	66	16	6th	28	38	6th	180	2	17th
Status: end of season 2018/19

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

Web links

• Aivar Rehemaa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Aivar Rehemaa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at the Estonian Ski Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FC Otepää profile Aivar Rehemaa ( Estonian ) www.fcotepaa.ee. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
2. ↑ Rehemaa: "Elu on helgem, kui kõrval väärt abikaasa!" ( Estonian ) www.ohtuleht.ee. November 11, 2009. Archived from the original on January 2010. Retrieved on December 14, 2010.
3. ↑ Suusatajad - Eesti tšempionid titetegemises! ( Estonian ) www.ohtuleht.ee. May 12, 2010. Archived from the original on May 14, 2010. Retrieved on December 14, 2010.
4. ↑ Rehemaa and Kravtsova won the mass starts in Schonach ( Memento from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )