He made his debut in the World Cup on February 29, 1992 in Lahti. The next two years were moderately successful for him, but in the 1993/94 season he made the leap into the Finnish A-team. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he was sixth on the normal hill, fifth on the large hill and in the team. With the Finnish team he was world champion at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 in Thunder Bay and in 1997 in Trondheim . He celebrated his first of a total of five World Cup victories on January 13, 1996 in Engelberg . In the overall World Cup he reached 14th place in 1994, 7th in 1995, 11th in 1996, 9th in 1997, 7th in 1998, 35th in 1999, 7th in 2000 and 10th in 2001. The high point of his career was the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. On the normal hill he surprisingly won gold, on the large hill silver behind Kazuyoshi Funaki . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2001 , he won silver with the Finnish team on the large hill again, but after the relatively disappointing season he ended his career.
Finland
Engelberg
Lillehammer
Predazzo
Hakuba
