Antti Aalto (ski jumper)
Antti Aalto 
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Aalto at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld |
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 Finland
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| birthday | 2nd April 1995 (age 25) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Kitee , Finland | |||||||||||||||
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| society | Kiteen Urheilijat | |||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2012 | |||||||||||||||
| Pers. Best | 225.5 m ( Kulm 2020) | |||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||
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| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | ||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | January 31, 2016 | |||||||||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 25. ( 2018/19 ) | |||||||||||||||
| Ski flying world cup | 7. ( 2019/20 ) | |||||||||||||||
| Four Hills Tournament | 30. ( 2018/19 ) | |||||||||||||||
| Raw Air | 20th ( 2019 ) | |||||||||||||||
| Ski jumping Grand Prix | ||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the Grand Prix | 5th September 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Overall Grand Prix | 31. ( 2017 ) | |||||||||||||||
| Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC) | ||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the COC | August 10, 2012 | |||||||||||||||
| Overall ranking COC | 47th ( 2016/17 ) | |||||||||||||||
| last change: March 13, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
Antti Aalto (born April 2, 1995 in Kitee , North Karelia ) is a Finnish ski jumper . He starts for Kiteen Urheilijat and currently lives in Sotkamo .
Career
Antti Aalto starts for Kiteen Urheilijat . On August 8th and 9th, 2012 he made his debut in Kuopio in the FIS Cup and reached 15th place twice. His next competition one day later was also his debut in the Continental Cup . This took place on August 10th and 11th, 2012 in Kuopio and he finished 29th and 29th. Since then, other competitions in the FIS and Continental Cups have regularly followed. At the Junior World Championships in 2013 in Liberec , Czech Republic , he was 34th in the individual and eighth with the Finnish team. Two years later he was at the Junior World Championships in Almaty , Kazakhstan , although he was eighth again with the team, but fell in the individual to 65th place. His best placement in the Continental Cup so far was a fourth place in the competition in Ruka on December 18, 2016, where he was only 0.1 points behind Philipp Aschenwald and thus only narrowly missed his first podium place.
On January 31, 2016, Aalto started the Ski Jumping World Cup for the first time in Sapporo and finished in 48th place. At the end of December 2016 he was nominated by the Finnish head coach Andreas Mitter for the Four Hills Tournament 2016/17 . In this, however, he failed in Oberstdorf, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen each in the qualification and retired in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as 35th in the first round. In the tour's overall standings, he finished 53rd with 114.4 points. In the further course of the World Cup season he did not succeed in making it into the finals and thus remained without a World Cup point. In February 2017 he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti . In the individual competition on the normal hill, he finished 38th. On the large hill he had a surprise success when he won the qualification. In the competition he just missed the second round as 31st. With the Finnish team , he finished sixth.
On July 29, 2017, Aalto scored his first Grand Prix points in 28th place at the Summer Grand Prix in Hinterzarten . A month later he even reached the top ten for the first time in Hakuba , finishing tenth . He finished the overall Grand Prix standings with 73 points as 31st. At the start of the following World Cup season in Wisła , he was 28th in the individual competition and thus got the first World Cup points of his career. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2018 in Oberstdorf he was 32nd in the individual competition, while he finished eighth with the Finnish team. In February 2018 he took part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang for the first time and competed in all three competitions. In the individual competition on the normal hill he was 50th and last, on the large hill he finished 37th. With the Finnish team he reached the finals on the large hill and came in eighth.
At the Finnish Summer Championships 2018 in Lahti, Aalto won the gold medal in the individual competition. At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he was 31st in the large hill and 47th in the normal hill in the individual competitions. With the Finnish teams he was tenth in the men and eleventh with the mixed team.
statistics
World Cup placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 2017/18 | 54. | 13 |
| 2018/19 | 25th | 288 |
| 2019/20 | 32. | 133 |
Grand Prix placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 2017 | 31. | 73 |
| 2018 | 66. | 10 |
Web links
- Antti Aalto in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Antti Aalto on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kuusamo: ÖSV ski jumpers dominate again , on skispringen.com, from December 18, 2016. Retrieved on January 22, 2017.
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| SURNAME | Aalto, Antti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kitee , North Karelia , Finland |