Jesse Väänänen

Jesse Väänänen
nation	Finland
birthday	January 6, 1984
place of birth	Lahti,  Finland
Career
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura
status	not active
End of career	2012
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup March 5, 2004  Overall World Cup 73rd ( 2007/08 )  Sprint World Cup 43rd ( 2007/08 , 2009/10 )
last change: September 4, 2019

Jesse Väänänen (born January 6, 1984 in Lahti ) is a Finnish cross-country skier .

Career

Väänänen competed in competitions of the Fédération Internationale de Ski from 2003 to 2012 . He took part in the Scandinavian Cup and the Cross-Country World Cup. At the Junior World Championships in 2003 in Sollefteå , Sweden , he was tenth over ten kilometers in the classic technique and 16th in the sprint. At the 2004 Junior World Championships in Stryn, Norway, finishing fourth with the Finnish relay barely won a medal. He was 20th in the sprint and 55th in the mass start race over 30 kilometers. He ran his first World Cup race in March 2004 in Lahti, which he finished with 52nd place in the sprint. At the Winter Universiade 2005 in Innsbruck and Seefeld in Tyrol he was 16th in the sprint and 64th over ten kilometers in free technique. He got his first World Cup points at the beginning of December 2007 in Kuusamo with tenth place in the sprint. In January 2010 he reached in Otepää with fourth place in the sprint, his best placement in a World Cup race. At the following Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 , he finished 22nd in the sprint. From the 2010/11 season he mainly competed in FIS races and in the Scandinavian Cup . Only at the World Cups in his hometown of Lahti was sprinting again in 2011 (15th) and 2012 (63rd). After he did not start at the Finnish championships in Imatra in 2012 despite a report, he ended his career.

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10							3		3	1
Scoring						1	8th		9	3
Starts			5			1	23		29	3
Status: end of career

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

Web links

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