Hannu Manninen

Hannu Manninen
Full name	Hannu Kalevi Manninen
nation	Finland
birthday	April 17, 1978
place of birth	Rovaniemi ,  Finland
size	189 cm
Weight	83 kg
Career
discipline	Nordic combined cross-country skiing
society	Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura
National squad	Since 1993
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 2 × JWM medals 3 × 2 × 0 ×
Participant in the Nordic Combined  winter Olympics silver 1998 Nagano team gold 2002 Salt Lake City team bronze 2006 Turin team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1997 Trondheim team gold 1999 Ramsau team bronze 2001 Lahti team bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme team gold 2007 Sapporo team gold 2007 Sapporo sprint  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 1994 Breitenwang team gold 1995 Gällivare singles silver 1996 Asiago singles gold 1998 St. Moritz singles gold 1998 St. Moritz team
Nordic combination Debut in the World Cup March 4, 1994 Overall World Cup 1. ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 , 2005/06 , 2006/07 ) Sprint World Cup 1. ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 , 2005/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Singles / Gundersen 19th 17th 8th  sprint 23 10 6th  Mass start 6th 0 1  team 4th 1 0  Team sprint 1 0 0
Cross-country skiing Debut in the World Cup March 6, 1993 Overall World Cup 60th ( 2002/03 ) Sprint World Cup 31. ( 2002/03 )

Hannu Kalevi Manninen (born April 17, 1978 in Rovaniemi ) is a former Finnish Nordic combined skier . Manninen won the overall Nordic Combined World Cup four times (2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007). With 48 individual World Cup victories, he is the record holder. The cross-country skier Pirjo Muranen is his sister.

Career

Manninen was able to celebrate his first successes as a junior athlete. At the age of 15 at the Junior World Championships in 1994, he was part of the Finnish team that won the silver medal in Nordic combined in Breitenwang, Austria . A year later he was able to win the individual title in this discipline in Gällivare, Sweden . After finishing second in 1996 in Asiago, Italy , he won the gold medal in his last junior title fights in 1998 in St. Moritz , both individually and with the team.

For a long time he had the stigma of not having achieved a single medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships or the Olympic Winter Games . This discrepancy in performance between the World Cup and major events at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin became particularly evident : after Manninen had previously won the last seven World Cup races, he was only ninth and twelfth as the top favorite in the individual Olympic disciplines. At the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo , he was able to win a world championship title for the first time in the sprint.

Manninen, on the other hand, celebrated numerous successes with the Finnish relay: at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , he was the relay Olympic champion. In 2006 in Turin, the season reached third place. At the 1999 World Championships in Ramsau won Manninen team gold at the 2001 World Championships in Lahti , the 2003 World Championships in the Italian Val di Fiemme each the bronze medal in the 2007 World Championships gold medal.

Manninen caused a lot of stir because of an alleged unsportsmanlike behavior (pushing away) towards Ronny Ackermann in a World Cup race. At the finish, Ackermann poked at Manninen with his stick, but later apologized to his opponent for this action. To the public's surprise, Hannu Manninen presented the trophy on the occasion of Ackermann's election as Germany's Sportsman of the Year 2005.

Manninen occasionally took part in competitions as a cross-country skier . At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , he reached eighth place in the 1.5 km sprint. In the FIS Cross-Country World Cup is also an eighth place his best result.

On May 29, 2008, he announced his resignation. Manninen returned for the 2009/2010 Olympic winter season. In Kuusamo, Finland, he competed in his first World Cup competition after his comeback on November 28, 2009, and finished second. A day later he celebrated his first World Cup victory after his break. At the games he reached ranks 4 and 13 in the individual competitions as well as 7th place with the team. In 2011 he ended his career again. In winter 2016/17 he made another comeback and took part in World Cup competitions again on January 7, 2017 in Lahti and two weeks later in Chaux-Neuve. The following season he started again in the World Cup with a 9th place as the best placement. In his sixth Olympics in Pyeongchang he was 23 in each of the normal hill and 6th with the team in March 2018 he was awarded the Holmenkollen Medal honored

Hannu Manninen is married to Heli Manninen. They have two children together. He is a pilot with Finnair .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 8, 1996	Falun	Gundersen
2.	January 11, 1997	Saalfelden	Gundersen
3.	March 8, 1997	Lahti	Gundersen
4th	December 11, 1997	Steamboat Springs	sprint
5.	December 29, 1997	Oberwiesenthal	sprint
6th	November 21, 1998	Rovaniemi	Gundersen
7th	November 24, 1998	Rovaniemi	sprint
8th.	November 29, 1998	Lillehammer	sprint
9.	December 10, 1998	Steamboat Springs	sprint
10.	December 29, 1998	Oberwiesenthal	sprint
11.	March 4, 2000	Lahti	sprint
12.	March 16, 2002	Oslo	sprint
13.	November 29, 2002	Kuusamo	sprint
14th	December 15, 2002	Harrachov	sprint
15th	December 13, 2003	Val di Fiemme	Mass start
16.	January 10, 2004	Seefeld	sprint
17th	January 11, 2004	Seefeld	Gundersen
18th	January 25, 2004	Sapporo	Mass start
19th	January 27, 2004	Sapporo	sprint
20th	February 15, 2004	Oberstdorf	sprint
21st	February 28, 2004	Oslo	sprint
22nd	November 28, 2004	Kuusamo	sprint
23.	December 30, 2004	Oberhof	Gundersen
24.	January 6, 2005	Schonach	Gundersen
25th	January 8, 2005	Seefeld	sprint
26th	January 9, 2005	Seefeld	Gundersen
27.	January 23, 2005	Liberec	sprint
28.	January 29, 2005	Sapporo	Mass start
29	January 30, 2005	Sapporo	Gundersen
30th	March 4, 2005	Lahti	sprint
31.	March 13, 2005	Oslo	sprint
32.	November 25, 2005	Kuusamo	Gundersen
33.	December 3, 2005	Lillehammer	Gundersen
34.	4th December 2005	Lillehammer	sprint
35.	December 30, 2005	Oberhof	Gundersen
36.	January 6, 2006	Schonach	Gundersen
37.	January 14, 2006	Val di Fiemme	Mass start
38.	January 15, 2006	Val di Fiemme	sprint
39.	January 21, 2006	Harrachov	sprint
40.	January 22, 2006	Harrachov	Gundersen
41.	January 28, 2006	Seefeld	sprint
42.	January 29, 2006	Seefeld	Gundersen
43.	March 18, 2006	Sapporo	Mass start
44.	December 30, 2006	Ruhpolding	Gundersen
45.	February 4, 2007	Zakopane	Mass start
46.	November 29, 2009	Kuusamo	Gundersen
47.	January 2, 2010	Oberhof	Gundersen
48.	March 6, 2010	Lahti	Gundersen

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 21, 2001	Park City	Relay (mass start) 1
2.	February 14, 2004	Oberstdorf	Season 1
3.	February 11, 2005	Pragelato	Season 2
4th	January 3, 2007	Ruhpolding	Team sprint 3
5.	January 14, 2007	Lake Tesero	Season 4

¹With Samppa Lajunen and Jaakko Tallus .

²With Antti Kuisma and Jouni Kaitainen .

²With Anssi Koivuranta .

^4thWith Ville Kähkönen , Jaakko Tallus and Anssi Koivuranta.

statistics

Participation in Winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NH (NK)	Sprint LH (NK)	Gundersen LH (NK)	Relay (NK)	Sprint (LL)
Nagano 1998	-	-	-	02.	-
Salt Lake City 2002	14th	07th	-	01.	08th.
Turin 2006	09.	12.	-	03.	-
Vancouver 2010	13.	-	04th	07th	-
Pyeongchang 2018	23.	-	-	06th	-

Participation in world championships

Year and place	competition
	sprint	Gundersen NH	Gundersen LH	Team NH	Team LH
1997 Trondheim	-	06th	-	02.	-
1999 Ramsau	04th	-	-	01.	-
2001 Lahti	06th	04th	-	03.	-
2003 Val die Fiemme	27.	11.	-	03.	-
2005 Oberstdorf	08th.	09.	-	-	04th
2007 Sapporo	01.	06th	-	-	01.
2011 Oslo	-	21st	16.	07th	-
2017 Lahti	-	-	24.	05.	-

World Cup overall placements

season	space	Points
1993/94	60.	0033
1994/95	40.	0150
1995/96	08th.	0639
1996/97	05.	0875
1997/98	05.	0763
1998/99	02.	1667
1999/2000	09.	0898
2000/01	11.	0700
2001/02	08th.	0911
2002/03	04th	0678
2003/04	01.	1392
2004/05	01.	1466
2005/06	01.	1500
2006/07	01.	0765
2007/08	14th	0333
2009/10	08th.	0474
2010/11	39.	0039
2016/17	59.	0013
2017/18	55.	0017th

Web links

• Hannu Manninen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Hannu Manninen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - cross-country skiing
• Hannu Manninen on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Hannu Manninen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Start list of the World Cup event in Kuusamo (PDF; 84 kB)
2. ^ Result of the World Cup event on November 28, 2009 in Kuusamo
3. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen 2018 on skiforeningen.no (Norwegian), accessed on November 11, 2018
4. ↑ Comeback at 38 - sueddeutsche.de