Jaak Mae

Jaak Mae
Jaak Mae (2007)
nation	Estonia
birthday	25th February 1972 (age 48)
place of birth	Tapa ,  Estonian SSR
size	182 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
job	PE teacher
society	Oti sports club
Trainer	Mati Alaver
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 21 × 31 × 13 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 15 km classic  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2003 Val di Fiemme 15 km classic
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup January 9, 1994  Overall World Cup 6. (2001/02)  Distance World Cup 11th (2006/07)  Tour de Ski 11. ( 2008/09 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 0 3 4th

Jaak Mae (born February 25, 1972 in Tapa , Estonian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Estonian cross-country skier . The medalist at the Olympic Games and World Championships and 21-time national champion is one of the most successful Estonian cross-country skiers alongside Andrus Veerpalu and Kristina Šmigun-Vähi .

Private life

Jaak Mae is married and lives in Tapa with his wife Jana and their three children . In addition to Estonian and Norwegian, the trained sports teacher also speaks Finnish, English and Russian. After winning the Olympic bronze medal in 2002, Mae was awarded the Order of the Estonian Red Cross 3rd category.

Athletic career

Jaak Mae competed in his first cross-country skiing competition at the age of eight and began training in his school club two years later. In 1990/1991 he attended a ski school in Norway for half a year. Mae contested his first international race in the 1993/94 season as part of the Cross-Country World Cup in Kawgolowo . There he took 57th place over 30 kilometers. That season Mae also took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun , Sweden . His best result was 56th place over 30 kilometers. After a 38th place over 30 kilometers in the classic World Cup in Kawgolowo, he was nominated for the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer , Norway . There he took 35th place over the 10 kilometers. Over 30 kilometers freestyle he was 59. In the pursuit competition 40. With the Estonian relay he came in eleventh place. In 1996 he won his first Estonian championship title over 50 kilometers freestyle. In the 1996/97 season Mae won his first World Cup points as 23rd in the classic 10 kilometer competition in Davos . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 in Trondheim , Norway , his best result was 31st place over 50 kilometers classic. At the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , Japan , the classic specialist achieved a respectable success when the classic over 10 kilometers took sixth place. He was also able to convince in eleventh place over the classic 30 kilometers. Even a year later, the Estonian was able to confirm these results. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 he was seventh over the 10 kilometers classic. In the subsequent pursuit competition he was able to improve this result and took fifth place.

In the 2000/2001 season , Mae just missed the podium in his home World Cup in Otepää in fifth place - directly behind his compatriot Andrus Veerpalu . A week later, he finished tenth at the 2001 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland, over 15 kilometers. Mae had his strongest season in 2001/02 . After several results in the top ten, he achieved his first podium finish at the Nove Mesto World Cup with second place over 10 kilometers freestyle behind Fabio Maj . He also proved his good form at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , USA , where he won the bronze medal over 15 kilometers classic behind his compatriot Andrus Veerpalu and the Norwegian Frode Estil . With the Estonian relay, which had long been in third place, he was ninth. At the end of the season he finished sixth in the overall World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , Italy , Mae secured the silver medal over 15 kilometers classic behind the German Axel Teichmann . He was tenth in the double pursuit. Two years later at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , Mae, like the entire Estonian team, could not convince. His best result was 29th place in the pursuit competition. But already in the following year he showed his skills on the classic distances again and took fifth place at the 2006 Olympic Games in Pragelato, Italy, over 15 kilometers. In the 2006/07 season , the sports teacher took part in the Tour de Ski . He took 35th place in the final ranking. But already at the home World Cup in Otepää he showed rising form with fifth place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo , he took eighth place over the 50 kilometers. To kick off the World Cup but he was from the World Ski Federation FIS with a five-day protective barrier due to excessive hemoglobin were occupied. At the end of the season he finished eleventh in the distance world cup. In November 2007 he was again banned from the FIS for five days because of an excessively high hemoglobin level. Also in the 2008/09 season Mae took part in the Tour de Ski . He was able to record top ten results on all stages that were carried out in the classic technique and finished in eleventh place. In the victory of his compatriot Andrus Veerpalu at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 over 15 kilometers classic, he finished fifth. In the 2009/10 Olympic season he only took part in a few World Cup races, where he mostly did not reach the World Cup points. In Otepää, he took third place in the absence of the world's elite. This was his last podium finish in a World Cup so far. The 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver were also disappointing for Mae. Over 50 kilometers classic he could only fight for 30th place. In the 2010/11 season , Mae took part in World Cup competitions for the seventeenth year, represented the Estonian colors at the Tour de Ski and was twice in the top 30. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo , he was classically 14th over 14 kilometers . Space. Mae's last international competition was the World Cup in Lahti, where he finished 40th in the pursuit competition.

After retiring from competitive sports, Mae worked for the Estonian Ski Association and organized, among other things, the World Cup competitions in Otepää.

Web links

• Jaak Mae in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jaak Mae in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Estonian Ski Association, profile of Jaak Mae
• Jaak Mae in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Biography in ESBL (Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon, Estonian)
• Sports achievements and photo (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bearers of decorations - Jaak Mae ( Estonian / English ) Office of the President of Estonia - www.president.ee. April 17, 2002. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
2. ↑ Andekas Veerpalu poeg õpib laitmatu mainega Norra suusakoolis ( Estonian ) sport.postimees.ee. August 31, 2010. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
3. ↑ FIS imposes three further protective barriers . www.skiinternat-oberstdorf.de. February 23, 2007. Archived from the original on December 27, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 8, 2011. 
4. ↑ Protection lock for Jaak Mae . www.skiinternat-oberstdorf.de. November 24, 2007. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 8, 2011. 
5. ↑ Jaak Mae asub uude ametisse . www.valgamaalane.ee. June 21, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2011.