Janne Lahtela

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Janne Lahtela Freestyle skiing
Janne Lahtela as the Japanese national coach (2010)
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday 28th February 1974 (age 46)
place of birth Kemijärvi , Finland
size 171 cm
Weight 72 kg
job Ski trainer
Career
discipline Moguls, dual moguls
society Avalanche Ski Club
status resigned
End of career March 2006
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Nagano 1998 Moguls
gold Salt Lake City 2002 Moguls
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Meiringen-Hasliberg 1999 Moguls
silver Meiringen-Hasliberg 1999 Dual moguls
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 6, 1990
 World Cup victories 22nd
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1999/00 )
 Mughal World Cup 1. ( 1998/99 , 1999/00, 2003/04 )
 Dual Moguls World Cup 1. (1999/00, 2002/03 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Moguls 18th 7th 8th
 Dual moguls 4th 3 2
 

Janne Lahtela (born February 28, 1974 in Kemijärvi , Lapland ) is a former Finnish freestyle skier . He was on the moguls specialized disciplines, contained moguls and dual moguls. In the Mogul discipline he was world champion in 1999 and Olympic champion in 2002. In addition, he won the overall freestyle World Cup as well as five discipline ratings and 22 individual competitions. This makes him one of the most successful athletes of all time on the moguls.

biography

Athletic career

Janne Lahtela comes from Kemijärvi and is a member of the Avalanche Ski Club. According to his own statements, he felt a strong urge to move around as a child and later suspected it was an undiagnosed ADHD disorder .

Lahtela took part in the International Youth Championships near his home town for the first time in March 1987 and was eleven in the Moguls, three years later he won the competition on Pyhätunturi at the age of 16. On December 6, 1990, he made his debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Tignes . With three top 10 results, he qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville , where he finished 18th before his 18th birthday. At his first world championship in Altenmarkt he finished eleventh, at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer he was ninth. Due to a serious knee injury, he missed much of the 1994/95 season and the entire 1995/96 season.

With two top 10 placements in the new parallel discipline Dual Moguls, he qualified for the World Championship in Nagano . His results remained inconspicuous, but he was also able to qualify for the 1998 Olympic Games , where he surprisingly won the silver medal behind Jonny Moseley and led a strong Finnish team. From then on, his performance improved and he was able to celebrate his first World Cup victory in Blackcomb in January 1999 at the age of 24. With two more victories, he won the Moguls discipline for the first time at the end of the season. In addition, he was crowned Moguls World Champion and dual Moguls Vice World Champion in Hasliberg .

In his strongest season in 1999/00 , he secured seven wins in both the overall freestyle World Cup and both disciplines. In the coming winters he struggled with knee problems again and had to undergo an operation in 2001. After convalescence, he celebrated his greatest career success in February 2002 at the Olympic Games in Deer Valley , when he was crowned Olympic champion. He then won the World Cup discipline rankings in Dual Moguls ( 2002/03 ) and Moguls ( 2003/04 ). In a serious fall in Canada, he suffered a back injury and a hematoma in 2005 , but continued his career with a view to the home World Cup in Ruka and the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin . There he was again considered a promising medal candidate, but ultimately had to be content with rank 16.

In March 2006 he ended his career in the World Cup after a total of 15 winters.

Further career

After his active career, Janne Lahtela took over the post as head coach of the Japanese national team in 2006. He made this decision because he had already worked with Japanese sponsors during his playing days. Until 2014 he looked after successful athletes such as Nobuyuki Nishi , Aiko Uemura and Miki Itō as well as the later double world champion Ikuma Horishima . In March 2011, as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster , he had to relocate to Hakuba, only 60 km away . After finishing his coaching activity in Japan, Lahtela took a break from skiing. While he was training for the Senior World Championships in weightlifting , he suffered a spine injury in a motocross accident in summer 2014. In the spring of 2015 he was hired as the head coach of the Finnish national team.

Lahtela is considered a difficult character, which he demonstrated, for example, in the unfriendly dealings with Japanese journalists. He lives with his dog in Katajanokka , a district of Helsinki .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Moguls Dual moguls
space Points space Points space Points
1991/92 48. 12 15th 92 - -
1992/93 59. 41 20th 368 - -
1993/94 80. 18th 33. 144 - -
1994/95 106. 6th 42. 44 - -
1995/96 No results due to injury
1996/97 72. 29 27. 116 12. 204
1997/98 50. 44 16. 220 19th 84
1998/99 3. 94 1. 376 3. 232
1999/00 1. 100 1. 500 1. 368
2000/01 4th 90 2. 448 - -
2001/02 10. 81 4th 488 6th 136
2002/03 20th 69 9. 484 1. 284
2003/04 4th 64 1. 891 - -
2004/05 29 26th 8th. 289 - -
2005/06 47. 18th 16. 201 - -

World Cup victories

Lahtela achieved 42 podium places in the World Cup, of which 22 wins:

date place country discipline
January 30, 1999 Blackcomb Canada Moguls
February 17, 1999 Inawashiro Japan Moguls
February 20, 1999 Madarao Japan Moguls
5th December 1999 Blackcomb Canada Dual moguls
January 8, 2000 Deer Valley United States Moguls
January 15, 2000 Mont-Tremblant Canada Moguls
January 22, 2000 Heavenly United States Moguls
February 5, 2000 Iwashiro Japan Moguls
March 15, 2000 Livigno Italy Moguls
March 16, 2000 Livigno Italy Dual moguls
December 14, 2000 Tignes France Moguls
January 12, 2001 Mont-Tremblant Canada Moguls
February 3, 2001 Iwashiro Japan Moguls
January 6, 2002 Oberstdorf Germany Moguls
January 25, 2003 Fernie Canada Dual moguls
March 1, 2003 Voss Norway Moguls
December 6, 2003 Ruka Finland Moguls
December 19, 2003 Madonna di Campiglio Italy Moguls
January 17, 2004 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 31, 2004 Deer Valley United States Dual moguls
March 14, 2004 Sauze d'Oulx Italy Moguls
December 16, 2004 Tignes France Moguls

More Achievements

  • 5 Finnish championship titles (Moguls 1992, 1994, 1997 and 2000, Dual Moguls 2000)
  • 2 titles at the International Youth Championships (Moguls 1990 and 1994)
  • 1 win in an FIS race

Awards

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janne Lahtela. Sports Reference LLC, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Pekka Holopainen: Janne Lahtela palasi nostamaan suomalaisia ​​huipulle - kaularanka, välilevyt ja kädet murskaksi, mutta olympiavoittaja ei luovuta. Ilta-Sanomat , December 1, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2020 (Finnish).
  3. ↑ a b Annika Uusikari: Janne Lahtela - kumparekuninkaasta ritariksi. Urheilugaala, December 22, 2017, accessed January 19, 2020 (Finnish).
personal data
SURNAME Lahtela, Janne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemijärvi