Jari Mantila

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Jari Mantila Nordic combination
Full name Jari Sakari Mantila
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday 14th July 1971 (age 49)
place of birth Kotka
size 189 cm
Weight 73 kg
Career
discipline Nordic combination
society Lahden Hiihtoseura
National squad since 1992
status resigned
End of career March 2002
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Nagano 1998 team
gold Salt Lake City 2002 team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver Thunder Bay 1995 Gundersen
silver Trondheim 1997 team
gold Ramsau 1999 team
bronze Lahti 2001 team
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup February 28, 1992
 World Cup victories (individual) 02 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 02. ( 1996/97 )
 Sprint World Cup 29th ( 2000/01 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 2 2 4th
 sprint 0 0 1
Placements in the Grand Prix
 Debut in the Grand Prix August 30, 1995
 Overall rating 04. ( 2000 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 0 1 1
last change: April 13, 2019

Jari Sakari Mantila (born July 14, 1971 in Kotka ) is a former Finnish Nordic combined athlete.

Athletic career

Mantila started in 1992 for the first time in a World Cup competition. He finished 12th on his debut in Lahti . In the next competition in Trondheim , he placed ninth in the top ten. In the 1993/94 season he was able to place himself in the top ten several times and finished ninth in the overall World Cup . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 in Thunder Bay , he won the silver medal behind the Norwegian Fred Børre Lundberg .

In December 1995 Mantila celebrated his first World Cup victory in Val di Fiemme . In the season he was able to fight for three more podium finishes and finished third in the overall World Cup 1995/96 behind Knut Tore Apeland and Kenji Ogiwara . He was able to improve this performance a year later. With a World Cup victory and several podium finishes, he finished second in the overall World Cup in 1996/97 behind his compatriot Samppa Lajunen . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 in Trondheim , Norway, he was able to fight for the silver medal behind Norway with the Finnish team. The Finnish team was able to repeat this result at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . In the overall World Cup 1997/98 , Mantila finished fifth.

In 1999 Mantila could only rarely place in the top ten in the World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 , he took 14th place in the sprint and eleventh place in the individual competition. With the Finnish team he was able to fight for the world title. His last place on the podium in a World Cup race was achieved by Mantila in 2000 in the sprint competition in Oberwiesenthal . There he took third place behind Samppa Lajunen and Bjarte Engen Vik . In the overall World Cup 1999/00 could still occupy a tenth place.

In the summer of 2000 he was able to take second place at the Grand Prix in Oberhof / Steinbach-Hallenberg and third place in Klingenthal . In the overall Grand Prix classification, he took fourth place. In the following winter season 2001 he could not repeat the achievements of the last few years and not place in the top ten in World Cup competitions. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 in Ramsau am Dachstein , he won the bronze medal with the Finnish team.

In his last active season in 2002, Mantila could only rarely place in the top twenty in the World Cup, but was still nominated for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Together with Samppa Lajunen, Hannu Manninen and Jaakko Tallus , he won the gold medal in the team competition in front of the German team. In March 2002, Jari Mantila played his last World Cup competition in Oslo .

After the sports career

After his active time as an athlete, Jari Mantila worked as a service man for the Finnish ski jumping world cup team. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , he was arrested for drunk driving and lost his job at the Finnish Ski Association. At the end of 2005, Mantila was hired by Wolfgang Steiert as chief technician for the Russian ski jumping team.

In April 2004, Mantila and his friend Janne Ahonen founded the company Radius AY , which sells snowmobile and motorcycle accessories.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. December 19, 1995 ItalyItaly Val di Fiemme Gundersen large hill
2. November 22, 1996 FinlandFinland Rovaniemi Gundersen large hill

Finnish championships

  • 1 × Finnish champion in singles (1994)
  • 4 × Finnish champion with the team (1990, 1992, 1993, 2000)

statistics

Placements at the Olympic Winter Games Olympic rings without rims.svg

Year and place competition
Gundersen NH Sprint LH team
FranceFrance 1992 Albertville DNF - 07th
NorwayNorway 1994 Lillehammer 14th - 08th.
JapanJapan 1998 Nagano 27. - 02.
United StatesUnited States 2002 Salt Lake City - - 01.

Placements at world championships

Year and place competition
Gundersen NH sprint team
SwedenSweden 1993 Falun 24. - 08th.
CanadaCanada 1995 Thunder Bay 02. - 09.
NorwayNorway 1997 Trondheim 14th - 02.
AustriaAustria 1999 Ramsau 11. 14th 01.
FinlandFinland 2001 Lahti 15th - 03.

World Cup overall placements

season space Points
1991/92 24. 0013
1992/93 19th 0014th
1993/94 09. 0437
1994/95 25th 0223
1995/96 03. 1147
1996/97 02. 0940
1997/98 23. 0427
1998/99 18th 0528
1999/00 10. 0880
2000/01 38. 0227
2001/02 41. 0287

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ schwaebische.de Finnish supervisor sent home on February 21, 2005
  2. ↑ NGZ Online, Mantila chief technician of the Russian ski jumping
  3. ↑ skispringen.com, Janne Ahnonen Interview ( Memento from August 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Radius AY ( Memento from March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mantila, Jari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mantila, Jari Sakari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish Nordic combined
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Kotka