Janne Ahonen

Janne Ahonen
Janne Ahonen 2011
Full name	Janne Petteri Ahonen
nation	Finland
birthday	11th May 1977 (age 43)
place of birth	Lahti ,  Finland
size	184 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura
Trainer	Ari Saukko (1990–2007, 2013–2014) Tommi Nikunen (2009–2011) Hannu Lepistö (2015–2018)
Pers. Best	233.5 m ( Planica 2005)
status	resigned
End of career	October 27, 2018
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 5 × 3 × 2 × SFWM medals 0 × 5 × 2 × JWM medals 4 × 0 × 0 × FM medals 6 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City team silver 2006 Turin team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1995 Thunder Bay team gold 1997 Trondheim team gold 1997 Trondheim Normal hill silver 2001 Lahti Team normal hill silver 2001 Lahti Team large hill bronze 2001 Lahti Large hill gold 2003 Val di Fiemme team gold 2005 Oberstdorf Large hill silver 2005 Oberstdorf Team large hill bronze 2005 Oberstdorf Normal hill  Ski flying world championships silver 1996 Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf singles bronze 2000 Vikersund singles silver 2004 Planica singles silver 2004 Planica team silver 2006 Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf team bronze 2008 Oberstdorf singles silver 2008 Oberstdorf team  Ski jumping junior world championship gold 1993 Harrachov singles gold 1993 Harrachov team gold 1994 Breitenwang singles gold 1994 Breitenwang team Finnish championships gold 2008 Kuusamo Normal hill gold 2009 Lahti Large hill gold 2009 Lahti team silver 2010 Rovaniemi Normal hill gold 2010 Lahti team bronze 2015 Ruka Large hill gold 2016 Lahti Large hill gold 2017 Lahti Single large hill gold 2017 Lahti Large hill team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	1992
World Cup victories (individual)	36 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	10 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 )
Ski flying world cup	02. ( 1995/96 , 1999/2000 )
Jump World Cup	01. ( 1998/99 )
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 1998/99 , 2002/03 , 2004/05 , 2005/06 , 2007/08 )
Raw Air	74th ( 2017 )
Nordic Tournament	02. (2000)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 34 40 27  Ski flying 2 4th 1  Team jumping 10 9 6th
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Grand Prix victories (individual)	05 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	01. ( 2000 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 5 6th 3  Team jumping 1 3 0
last change: March 14, 2018

Janne Petteri Ahonen  [ ˈjɑnːɛ ˈɑhɔnɛn ] (born May 11, 1977 in Lahti ) is a former Finnish ski jumper and motor sportsman. He is considered one of the most successful jumpers of his generation.

In 1997 he became world champion on the normal hill. At the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf he won on the large hill and took the bronze medal on the normal hill. With the Finnish team he was world champion in 1995, 1997 and 2003. With five world championship titles in individual and team competitions, as well as three silver and two bronze medals, he is the most successful ski jumper in the history of the world championships. At the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics , he won the silver medal with the team. In 1998/99, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06 and 2007/08 he won the prestigious Four Hills Tournament . He shared the 2005/06 victory with Jakub Janda, who was tied on points . Since 2007/08 he has been the most successful participant with five tour wins ahead of Jens Weißflog . Janne Ahonen won the overall World Cup twice (2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons).

Janne Ahonen has been taking part in dragster races with his Ahonen Racing Team - ART since 2003 , in the premier Top Fuel class since 2006 , accelerating to 476.19 km / h in 4.044 seconds in 2012.

Career

15 years at the top of the world

He achieved his first World Cup victory on December 19, 1993 in Engelberg . Since then, he has achieved numerous podium finishes in all major competitions and a total of 36 World Cup victories, making him fourth in the all-time best list after Gregor Schlierenzauer , Matti Nykänen and Adam Małysz . He is also the jumper who, with currently 108 podium places, has made the most of all times. With his victory in Innsbruck on January 3, 2005, he became the first ski jumper to win six World Cup competitions in a row; when jumping in Titisee-Neustadt on January 22, 2005, he set a new record with twelve victories in a World Cup season, which was surpassed by Gregor Schlierenzauer with 13 victories in the 2008/09 season.

On March 20, 2005, while ski flying in Planica, he achieved the longest jump ever made by a ski jumper at 240 meters. Since he could not stand this jump, Bjørn Einar Romøren's world record over 239 meters continued to count .

After his again medalless individual jumping at the Olympics, he was unable to continue his top performances until the 2007/08 season. He finished the 2006/07 season without a podium in eighth place in the overall World Cup. In the ski jumping winter 2007/08 Janne Ahonen celebrated a comeback with four victories and a total of nine podium finishes in the World Cup . This was crowned with his two victories in Bischofshofen on January 5th and 6th, 2008 and thus winning the Four Hills Tournament 2007/08 . At the Ski Flying World Championships in 2008 he was able to win the bronze medal in the individual and the silver medal in the team competition.

On March 26, 2008 Ahonen announced the end of his active career in a press conference, but two days later he was still Finnish champion in Kuusamo . From November 2008 he worked as an expert on Finnish television.

First comeback

On March 8, 2009, Janne Ahonen announced his comeback for the 2009/10 ski jumping season. At the Finnish Championships on September 19, 2009 in Lahti , he won the title on the large hill and with Lahden Hiihtoseura's team. His greatest success on his first comeback was second place in the Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 behind Andreas Kofler . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he finished fourth on the normal hill. After a disappointing 2010/11 season, he resigned for the second time.

Second comeback

On January 10, 2013 Ahonen announced that they were planning another comeback. The goal is the 2014 Winter Olympics . In an interview, he said that the numerous material changes would suit him and that he was therefore confidently starting the comeback. Contrary to expectations, Ahonen received a place in the senior squad from head coach Pekka Niemelä .

In a first national competition in Rovaniemi Ahonen finished fifth, a few days later he celebrated his first victory after his second comeback in Vuokatti . In the international Summer Grand Prix Ahonen started with a seventh place in Hinterzarten , shortly afterwards he won a qualifying event for the first time in Einsiedeln . On October 3, 2013, with third place in Klingenthal, he was able to achieve his first podium in a Grand Prix competition in more than six years. In the winter of 2014/15 he initially only took part in the two competitions in Kuusamo, Finland, on November 28th and 29th, where he finished 29th and 32nd. After he was not nominated for the Four Hills Tournament, he hired Hannu Lepistö as a private trainer in December 2014 .

Third comeback

Ahonen rose to the weekend of 28/29. January 2017 again in the World Cup, when he initially competed as the final jumper of the Finnish team in the team competition on the HS145 in Willingen, with a respectable success with rank 7 before the Japanese team, in the individual competition he came in 21st As a result, he qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics and took part in Olympic competitions for the seventh time as the second ski jumper after Noriaki Kasai (8 competitions). To date, no Finnish athlete has succeeded in this.

Ahonen ended his career for good on October 27, 2018.

Private life

Janne Ahonen in the top fuel dragster

Janne Ahonen lives with his wife and sons (* November 27, 2001 and * June 9, 2008) in Karjusaari near Lahti. In addition to ski jumping, he is also very successful in drag racing . In August 2004 he became Nordic Champion with the Eagle Racing Team.

Ahonen's brother is the former ski jumper Pasi Ahonen .

In the summer of 2009, Ahonen published an autobiography that caused a stir with her insight into the world of ski jumping in Finland. Among other things, Ahonen reports on radical diets and alcohol alcoholism. In March 2005, on the eve of his 240-meter flight in Planica, he and Risto Jussilainen emptied 24 cans of beer and still jumped 240 m the following day, which would have been a world record if he hadn't fallen on landing. For fear of discovering his residual alcohol, he then strictly refused to be taken to the hospital.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
01.	December 19, 1993	Engelberg	Large hill
02.	January 1, 1995	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
03.	3rd December 1995	Lillehammer	Large hill
04th	February 10, 1996	Kulm	Ski jump
05.	March 7, 1998	Lahti	Large hill
06th	December 6, 1998	Chamonix	Normal hill
07th	December 19, 1998	Harrachov	Large hill
08th.	December 20, 1998	Harrachov	Large hill
09.	January 9, 1999	Engelberg	Large hill
10.	January 17, 1999	Zakopane	Large hill
11.	February 7, 1999	Harrachov	Large hill
12.	December 12, 1999	Villach	Normal hill
13.	March 4, 2000	Lahti	Normal hill
14th	December 21, 2002	Engelberg	Large hill
15th	January 4, 2003	innsbruck	Large hill
16.	January 10, 2004	Liberec	Large hill
17th	January 11, 2004	Liberec	Large hill
18th	February 14, 2004	Willingen	Large hill
19th	November 27, 2004	Kuusamo	Large hill
20th	November 28, 2004	Kuusamo	Large hill
21st	4th December 2004	Trondheim	Large hill
22nd	December 5, 2004	Trondheim	Large hill
23.	December 12, 2004	Harrachov	Large hill
24.	December 18, 2004	Engelberg	Large hill
25th	December 19, 2004	Engelberg	Large hill
26th	December 29, 2004	Oberstdorf	Large hill
27.	January 1, 2005	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
28.	January 3, 2005	innsbruck	Large hill
29	January 9, 2005	Willingen	Large hill
30th	January 22, 2005	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
31.	December 29, 2005	Oberstdorf	Large hill
32.	January 6, 2006	Bischofshofen	Large hill
33.	January 5, 2008	Bischofshofen	Large hill
34.	January 6, 2008	Bischofshofen	Large hill
35.	January 20, 2008	Harrachov	Ski jump
36.	March 4, 2008	Kuopio	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
01.	January 28, 1995	Lahti	Large hill
02.	December 9, 1995	Planica	Large hill
03.	February 23, 1996	Trondheim	Large hill
04th	March 8, 1997	Lahti	Large hill
05.	January 25, 2000	Hakuba	Large hill
06th	March 4, 2000	Lahti	Large hill
07th	March 2, 2002	Lahti	Large hill
08th.	March 23, 2002	Planica	Ski jump
09.	March 21, 2003	Planica	Ski jump
10.	February 5, 2006	Willingen	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 9, 2000	Kuopio	Large hill
2.	August 12, 2000	Villach	Normal hill
3.	August 14, 2000	Courchevel	Large hill
4th	August 27, 2000	Hakuba	Large hill
5.	September 3, 2000	Sapporo	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 5, 2000	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 29, 1998	Rovaniemi	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1992/93	50.	0005
1993/94	10.	0388
1994/95	03.	0869
1995/96	03.	1054
1996/97	08th.	0734
1997/98	08th.	0836
1998/99	02.	1695
1999/00	03.	1437
2000/01	05.	0686
2001/02	15th	0356
2002/03	04th	1016
2003/04	01.	1316
2004/05	01.	1715
2005/06	02.	1024
2006/07	08th.	0539
2007/08	03.	1291
2009/10	11.	0494
2010/11	44.	0074
2013/14	31.	0176
2014/15	58.	0029
2016/17	50.	0024

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1994	12.	599
1995	05.	872
1996	05.	156
1998	04th	290
1999	03.	291
2000	01.	705
2001	16.	119
2002	03.	338
2003	18th	058
2004	29	040
2005	25th	080
2006	31.	084
2007	26th	084
2013	19th	156
2015	74.	011

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1992/93	39.	0417
1994/95	03.	0896
1995/96	06th	0869
1996/97	18th	0641
1997/98	03.	0907
1998/99	01.	0960.6
1999/00	02.	0963.5
2000/01	02.	0941.5
2001/02	26th	0697
2002/03	01.	0999.9
2003/04	05.	1012.6
2004/05	01.	1043.3
2005/06	01.	1081.5
2006/07	08th.	0890.7
2007/08	01.	1085.8
2009/10	02.	1013.9
2010/11	24.	0668.6
2013/14	23.	0736.9

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	114.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 1995	January 1, 1997
Vikersund	Norway	188.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 19, 1995	February 19, 1995
Bad Mitterndorf / Tauplitz	Austria	200.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 8, 1996	February 11, 1996
Oberwiesenthal	Germany	99.0 m ( HS : 106 m)	1996	1996
Harrachov	Czech Republic	206.5 m ( HS : 205 m)	January 13, 2001	January 14, 2001
Liberec	Czech Republic	139.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	January 11, 2004	current
Engelberg	Switzerland	141.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 18, 2004	20th December 2015
Willingen	Germany	152.0 m ( HS : 145 m)	January 9, 2005	current
Lillehammer	Norway	137.0 m ( HS : 138 m)	March 11, 2005	December 2, 2005
Vikersund	Norway	212.5 m ( HS : 225 m)	January 11, 2007	January 12, 2007
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	139.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 2008	January 1, 2008

literature

• Pekka Holopainen: Janne Ahonen: Königsadler - My life as a ski jumper . A – Z Sportmedia Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939978-06-0 .

Web links

Commons : Janne Ahonen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Janne Ahonen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Janne Ahonen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Janne Ahonen. All articles and backgrounds. Spiegel Online , accessed January 15, 2014 (Dossier). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/Moottoriurheilu/
2. ↑ http://www.drdb.eu/pbdrv.asp?drv=10
3. ↑ Ski jumping: Janne Ahonen announces the end of her career ( memento of the original from March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. diepresse.com, March 26, 2008 
4. ↑ Official end result  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file 203 kB)  
5. ↑ Janne Ahonen returns ( Memento from March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Results at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on October 30, 2011.
7. ↑ Janne Ahonen is planning another comeback! skispringen.com, January 10, 2013
8. ↑ Interview with Janne Ahonen about his second comeback on skispringen.com, March 13, 2013
9. ↑ Finland nominates training groups, Ahonen in the A-team on skispringen.com, May 21, 2013
10. ↑ Ahonen and Olli disappoint with Nurmsalu victory on skispringen.com, July 15, 2013
11. ↑ Finlandia Cup: Janne Ahonen celebrates first victory after comeback on skispringen.com, July 17th, 2013
12. ↑ Janne Ahonen wins qualification in Einsiedeln on skispringen.com, August 16, 2013
13. ↑ Grand Prix jumping results overview on fis-ski.com, accessed on January 24, 2014.
14. ↑ Hannu Lepistö becomes the new trainer of Janne Ahonen Skispringen.com, December 22, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2015.
15. ↑ https://www.eurosport.de/skispringen/pyeongchang/2018/skispringen-bei-olympia-2018-janne-ahonen-schreiben-in-pyeongchang-geschichte_sto6587348/story.shtml
16. ↑ Janne Ahonen announces the end of her career , on laola1.at, October 27, 2018, accessed on October 27, 2018.
17. ↑ Ski jumping: Ahonen biography - Confessions of a royal eagle . www.sueddeutsche.de. August 6, 2009. Archived from the original on September 10, 2009. 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 December 25, 2009.