Harri Eloranta

Harri Henrik Eloranta (born December 4, 1963 in Köyliö ) is a former Finnish biathlete .

Harri Eloranta works for the Finnish Coast Guard . He lives in Ähtäri and started for Säkylän Urheilijat . The Finn began biathlon in 1978. His first appearance in the biathlon world cup was in the 1983/84 season . The first top ten placement he reached in 1987 as seventh in a sprint race in Canmore . In 1989 in Östersund he was able to achieve an even better result in the World Cup as fifth. In the 1988/89 season he reached 23rd place in the overall ranking, his best result in this ranking. Between 1985 and 2000 the Finn, who was considered a veteran and legend of the sport of biathlon in his last biathlon years, competed in nine biathlon world championships . He was able to achieve his best individual result in 1989 when he was twelfth in the sprint race in Feistritz , the best result with the relay was seventh place in 1997 in Osrblie .

Between 1988 and 1998 Eloranta competed in all four Winter Olympics . In 1988 he reached 50th place in the singles and 25th place in the sprint in Calgary, and in 1992 in Albertville he ran the most successful races of his life. In the individual he missed a medal in fifth, in the sprint he won the bronze medal with Mark Kirchner's victory and behind Ricco Groß . With the season came an eighth rank. In 1994 he finished 30th in the individual and 15th place in the sprint in Lillehammer and was also fifth with the Finnish relay. He played his last games at the age of 34 in 1998 in Nagano . In Japan he finished 20th in the sprint and eighth in the relay. In 2000 he ended his international career.

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place		1					1
Top 10	2	6th			1	7th	16
Scoring	8th	17th			1	9	35
Starts	31	40	7th		1	9	88

(The statistics may not be entirely complete.)

Web links

• Harri Eloranta in the database of the IBU (English)
• Harri Eloranta in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Harri Eloranta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )