Juhani Ruotsalainen

Juhani Ruotsalainen
Full name	Kari Eemil Juhani Ruotsalainen
nation	Finland
birthday	April 1, 1948
place of birth	Iisalmi
size	172 cm
Weight	64-65 kg
date of death	2015
Career
Pers. Best	162 m (Planica 1972)
End of career	1973
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	13. ( 1968/69 )

Kari Eemil Juhani Ruotsalainen (born April 1, 1948 in Iisalmi ; † 2015 ) was a Finnish ski jumper .

In 1967 Ruotsalainen won the Swiss ski jumping tournament. In 1968 he started for the first time in the Four Hills Tournament . However, he could not achieve a place in the overall ranking with places 29 in Partenkirchen , 51 in Innsbruck and 73 in Bischofshofen . At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , he reached 39th place on the normal hill and 50th place on the large hill, tied with French Maurice Arbez . At the Four Hills Tournament 1968/69 he reached 13th place in the overall tournament ranking after good placements. At the ski flying world championships in Planica in 1972 , he finished fourth and narrowly missed the medal ranks. After the unsuccessful Four Hills Tournament in 1972/73 for Ruotsalainen , he ended his active ski jumping career.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mäkihypyn lentomäen SE-mies kuollut. In: Ilta-Sanomat. November 16, 2015, accessed May 23, 2018 (Finnish). 
2. ↑ All Time Results (PDF) Ski jumping hill archive. March 25, 2014, archived from the original on September 10, 2011 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 . 
3. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's Large Hill, Individual. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .