Janne Happonen

Janne Happonen
Janne Happonen at Holmenkollen 2008
Full name	Janne Mikael Happonen
nation	Finland
birthday	June 18, 1984
place of birth	Kuopio ,  Finland
size	178 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
society	Puijon Hiihtoseura
Trainer	Jukka-Pekka Parkkiseniemi Janne Väätäinen
Pers. Best	240.0 m ( Vikersund 2011)
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × SFWM medals 0 × 2 × 1 × JWM medals 3 × 0 × 0 × EYOF medals 2 × 0 × 0 × National medals 1 × 0 × 4 ×
winter Olympics silver 2006 Turin team  Ski flying world championships silver 2006 Bad Mitterndorf / Tauplitz team silver 2008 Oberstdorf team bronze 2010 Planica team  Ski jumping junior world championship gold 2001 Karpacz-Szklarska team gold 2002 Schonach team gold 2002 Schonach singles  European Youth Olympic Festival gold 2001 Vuokatti Normal hill gold 2001 Vuokatti team Finnish championships bronze 2009 Lahti Large hill bronze 2009 Lahti team bronze 2012 Kuusamo Large hill bronze 2012 Rovaniemi Normal hill gold 2012 Lahti Large hill gold 2013 Lahti Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	November 23, 2001
World Cup victories (individual)	03 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	08. ( 2007/08 )
Ski flying world cup	22. ( 2010/11 )
Four Hills Tournament	10th ( 2007/08 )
Nordic Tournament	03rd (2006, 2008)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 2 2 1  Ski flying 1 0 1  Team jumping 1 2 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 10, 2002
Grand Prix victories (individual)	02 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	05th ( 2005 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 2 2 0  Team jumping 0 2 1
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	November 17, 2001
COC wins (individual)	09 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	07th ( 2001/02 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 9 3 3

Janne Mikael Happonen (born June 18, 1984 in Kuopio ) is a former Finnish ski jumper .

Career

Happonen started ski jumping in 1992. He made his debut on November 17, 2001 in Kuusamo in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup and a week later, on November 23 of the same year, in the World Cup jumping on his home hill in Kuopio , where he immediately achieved World Cup points with an eleventh place. Previously, he had already won the Junior World Championships in Karpacz-Szklarska, Poland, on February 1, 2001 with the Finnish team .

He was able to repeat this success at the Junior World Championships in Schonach in 2002, and he also won the gold medal in the individual. In 2003 and 2004 he was the Finnish champion.

Happonen won his first Continental Cup on January 12, 2002 in Sapporo . His first place on the podium when he was on the A team was the Summer Grand Prix event in Einsiedeln , Switzerland , when he finished second.

In the winter of 2005/06 the Finn won several medals in international competitions. On January 15, 2006, he won the silver medal in the team competition at the Ski Flying World Championships in Bad Mitterndorf , while he was ninth in the individual. Even with the Winter Olympics in Turin , where he was in the individual competition on the normal hill 26, he took on the large hill silver with the Finnish team. In addition, he was part of the winning Finnish team in the team competition at the World Cup in Willingen .

In addition, on March 5, 2006, Happonen achieved his first individual victory in the World Cup in Lahti, which he followed up with another in ski flying in Planica on March 19. He finished his first complete World Cup season on a 14th place overall.

In the following season, the Finn was only used in eleven World Cup competitions. At the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo , Japan , he was only used in individual jumping on the large hill and finished 37th there. Only in the 2007/08 season did he jump a full season again, in which he was on his home hill in Kuopio on March 3, 2008 third individual World Cup victory. A few days earlier he had defended the silver medal from Kulm 2006 at the Ski Flying World Championships 2008 on the Heini-Klopfer Ski Flying Hill in Oberstdorf and had achieved fifth place in the individual. At the ski flying team competition in Planica on March 15, 2008, in the second round, he set his personal best of 227.5 meters.

At the end of June 2008 he suffered a broken thigh while training in Klingenthal , Germany. After he started jumping again in February 2009, the coaches hoped to be able to use him again at the 2009 Nordic Tournament . Happonen, who at this point had only completed just over twenty snow jumps, did not yet feel ready and announced his comeback for the 2009 summer competitions.

On July 19, 2009 the Finn celebrated his comeback with a win in a competition of the national Finlandia Veikkaus Tour on the normal hill in Lahti. Due to his overall good performance in this series of competitions, he was also nominated for the four-person Finnish Summer Grand Prix team.

At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he reached 19th place in jumping from the normal hill, tied with Austrian Andreas Kofler . After he was disqualified from the large hill in the individual competition, he finished fourth with the Finnish team on the large hill and barely missed another Olympic precious metal. At the following ski flying world championship in 2010 in Planice , Slovenia , he was able to win a medal again with the Finnish team in third place in the team competition. In the individual, he finished 15th.

Since February 13, 2011, Happonen has held the Finnish national record of 240 meters, which was set for ski flying at Vikersundbakken in Norway . At the Ski Flying World Championships 2012 in Vikersund , Norway , he finished eighth with the Finnish team and, like two years earlier, 15th in the individual.

In the qualification round at the opening weekend of the 2012/13 season in Lillehammer , Happonen suffered the third cruciate ligament tear of his career. The Finn then had to take a break for the rest of the season. At the beginning of July 2013 he completed the first training jumps after his injury. Just a few weeks later, on September 8, 2013, he won the gold medal in the individual competition at the Finnish summer championships. Happonen also won the first national competition before the start of the season in Rovaniemi, Finland. In the summer of 2016, Happonen officially ended his active ski jumping career.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 5, 2006	Lahti	Large hill
2.	March 19, 2006	Planica	Ski jump
3.	March 3, 2008	Kuopio	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 5, 2006	Willingen	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 9, 2006	Hakuba	Large hill
2.	September 10, 2006	Hakuba	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 12, 2002	Sapporo	Large hill
2.	January 13, 2002	Sapporo	Large hill
3.	February 21, 2003	Brotterode	Normal hill
4th	February 22, 2003	Brotterode	Normal hill
5.	January 25, 2014	Braunlage	Normal hill
6th	February 28, 2004	Kuopio	Large hill
7th	February 29, 2004	Kuopio	Large hill
8th.	January 22, 2005	Bischofshofen	Large hill
9.	March 6, 2005	Vikersund	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2001/02	46.	056
2002/03	40.	084
2003/04	50.	039
2004/05	56.	023
2005/06	14th	484
2006/07	41.	068
2007/08	08th.	755
2009/10	49.	054
2010/11	32.	125
2011/12	31.	152
2012/13	66.	009
2013/14	76.	011

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2002	24.	049
2003	24.	036
2004	45.	012
2005	05.	270
2006	07th	252
2007	17th	129
2009	27.	067
2011	70.	011
2012	67.	011

Web links

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

• Janne Happonen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Janne Happonen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
2. ^ Report on the Finnish national record (Finnish) . www.mtv3.fi. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
3. ↑ Saisonaus: Janne Happonen with torn ACL . skispringen.com. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
4. ↑ Janne Happonen returns to the ski jump . skispringen.com. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
5. ↑ Janne Happonen wins title in Finland . skispringen-news.de. Archived from the original on September 12, 2013. Info: The archive link was 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 September 10, 2013. 
6. ↑ Finland: Happonen and Ito win on snow . skispringen.com. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
7. ↑ Everything for ski jumping and ski flying. In: berkutschi.com. May 4, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016 .