Janne Korpi

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Janne Korpi Snowboard
Janne Korpi (2011)
Full name Janne-Juhani Korpi
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday 5th February 1986
place of birth VihtiFinlandFinlandFinland 
size 178 cm
Weight 71 kg
Career
society Vihdin Lumilautailijat
National squad since 2003
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Snowboard world championships
bronze 2007 Arosa Big Air
bronze 2013 Stoneham Slopestyle
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup 00December 5, 2003
 World Cup victories 11
 Freestyle World Cup 001. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2014/15 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 001st ( 2011/12 )
 Big Air World Cup 001st ( 2011/12 )
 Slopestyle World Cup 001. ( 2014/15 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 halfpipe 6th 2 2
 Big Air 5 1 1
 Slopestyle 0 2 0
TTR logo TTR World Snowboard Tour
 TTR debut December 28, 2005
 TTR victories 5
 Overall rating 5th (2009/10)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 TTR 5 3 5
last change: March 20, 2015

Janne-Juhani Korpi (born February 5, 1986 in Vihti ) is a Finnish snowboarder .

Career

Junior area

Korpi made his international debut in the Snowboard World Cup on December 5, 2003 in Tandådalen . He had to join the lower ranks with rank 45. Four weeks later, in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , he achieved a top 20 position for the first time and, with 14th place, his first World Cup points. On January 23, 2004 he just missed the podium in the halfpipe at the competition in Kreischberg as fifth, but I was able to place in the top of the world for the first time. As a result, it took until January 2005 for Korpi to again make it into the top ten and also to finish eighth in Kreischberg. At the Sungwoo Resort in February 2005 he was able to achieve his best individual result in the World Cup with fourth place. Shortly afterwards he finished seventh in the halfpipe at the Finnish Snowboard Championships 2005 in Saariselkä .

At the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2005 in Zermatt , he was junior world champion in the halfpipe and in fourth place narrowly missed the medals in Big Air. At the start of the 2005/06 World Cup season , Korpi was third on the podium for the first time in a World Cup in Rotterdam . In Whistler , too , he was fourth and fifth at the front. At the end of December 2005, Korpi started for the first time as part of the TTR World Snowboard Tour and was at the O'Neill SB-Jam at the end of 31.

World Cup breakthrough

On January 9th, 2006 Korpi won his first World Cup in the halfpipe at the competition in Kreischberg. Shortly afterwards he started at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and was in the halfpipe after a 42nd place in the first qualifying run and 14th place in the second at the end of the 20th in the halfpipe. Just ten days later, he finished fifth in the Xbox Big Day Out . At his last World Cup of the season he reached 10th place again in Saint Petersburg .

He started the 2006/07 season with a 26th place at Big Air in Stockholm . After a 12th place in the Saas-Fee halfpipe , Korpi reached 10th place in the quarter pipe and 13th place in the halfpipe at the O'Neill Evolution in January . As a result, he was not necessarily one of the favorites at the 2007 Snowboard World Cup in Arosa , but surprised the competition in Big Air, where he won the bronze medal behind Mathieu Crepel and his compatriot Antti Autti . In the halfpipe he missed the medal ranks in fourth. Two weeks after the World Cup, he was second on the podium again on the Olympic halfpipe in Bardonecchia and won the Big Air World Cup in Turin . With this result, he finished the season 21st in the overall World Cup ranking. In the Big Air ranking he was in a good eighth place.

In the World Cup season 2007/08 started Korpi with sixth place in the halfpipe in New Zealand Cardrona . He also repeated this placement at Big Air in Rotterdam, before he was on the podium for the first time in Saas-Fee and came second in the halfpipe. Two weeks later he won the Big Air race in Stockholm and subsequently proved that he is rightly one of the world's best. At the O'Neill Evolution on New Year's Day 2008 , he again achieved a podium in the TTR tour with third place. After he finished fifth in the halfpipe of the Fiat Freestyle Team - Rock the Spot , he repeated this placement at the World Cup in Bardonecchia. After further but rather mixed results, he finished the World Cup season seventh in the World Cup and Halfpipe overall rankings and second in the Big Air overall rankings. In the TTR tour he was eighth at the end of the season. Only six days later, however, he found his way back to the top of the world in Saas-Fee and won the halfpipe competition and shortly afterwards the Big Air World Cup in Stockholm. However, it was his last World Cup of the season and Korpi drove exclusively in the TTR Tour for the rest of the season. At the Winter Dew Tour in December he finished third before winning the slopestyle competition at O'Neill Evolution on January 5, 2009. He had previously finished eighth in the quarter pipe there. In May he finished the season 11th in the TTR Tour overall ranking.

In August 2009 Korpi started again at the FIS in the World Cup and after an 11th place in Cardrona in London, he again achieved a placement among the top ten. However, after he found it difficult to find his way back to the top of the world after the break, it took until mid-January 2010 when he was able to win both World Cups again in Stoneham and Québec . At the same time, he found it difficult to achieve consistent results on the TTR tour.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he again failed to make it to the top of the world in the halfpipe as 24th. After showing an increasing performance curve in the following TTR competitions, he finally won his first title at the Finnish snowboarding championships in March. He finished the TTR season in fifth place with his best result of the season to date.

Absolute world class

After starting almost exclusively in the TTR tour in the 2010/11 season, Korpi won another halfpipe World Cup in Cardrona in the third competition of the 2011/12 season in August 2011. Also in October 2011 in London he was successful in Big Air. After he was only placed in the top ten with two exceptions in the other season World Cups, at the end of the season he won the overall snowboard world cup rankings for the first time as well as the overall rankings in Big Air and the halfpipe.

After he finished sixth at the Burton New Zealand Open in July and second at the Boost Mobile Sno Sho , he only achieved a disappointing 29th place at the World Cup opener at Big Air in London on October 25, 2008 . As defending champion and now absolute world class, he also started the 2012/13 season successfully, but without a win. At the Snowboard World Championship 2013 in Stoneham he won bronze in slopestyle and was 11th in the halfpipe after a third place in the qualification. He did not start in big air.

After winning the Nescafé Champs Leysin in March , he also won the World Cup in the Spanish Sierra Nevada . At the end of the season he defended his overall World Cup success, but had to admit defeat in the discipline rankings in fifth and sixth.

Private

In addition to snowboarding, Korpi is also active in harness racing . This goes back to the success of his father, Pekka Korpi .

Web links

Commons : Janne Korpi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Janne Korpi Wins Nescafé Champs 2013 . Methodmag.com. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  2. Janne Korpi wins Freestyle World Cup . KURIER.at. Retrieved May 21, 2013.