Jukka Erätuli

Jukka Erätuli
Full name	Jukka Erätuli
nation	Finland
birthday	February 11, 1980
place of birth	Espoo
Career
discipline	Big air, half pipe
society	Pakastin
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Finnish championships gold 1999 Vuokatti halfpipe
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup November 18, 2000  World Cup victories 7th  Big Air World Cup 1. ( 2002/03 , 2004/05 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Big Air 7th 3 2
last change: February 12, 2014

Jukka Erätuli (* 11. February 1980 in Espoo ) is a former Finnish Freestyle - snowboarders and was one of the most dominant athletes in the discipline Big Air in the first half of the 2000s -years.

Career

Initially, Erätuli concentrated on the halfpipe . In this discipline he reached fourth place at the FIS Junior World Championships in 1997 in Lizzano in Belvedere and was Finnish champion in 1999. After making his debut in the Snowboard World Cup in Tignes on November 18, 2000 , he jumped for the first time in the related discipline of Big Air on December 11, 2001 in Whistler and was able to secure victory immediately. In the course of the following years he won the corresponding World Cup twice; In total, he achieved seven World Cup victories in Big Air - a figure that only Austrian Stefan Gimpl has surpassed so far .

Erätuli's participation in the FIS Snowboard World Championships was less successful . Both in 2003 in Kreischberg and in 2005 in Whistler he only finished fourth on the halfpipe.

World Cup victories

No.	Day	place	discipline
1.	December 11, 2001	Whistler	Big Air
2.	March 2, 2002	Sapporo	Big Air
3.	January 3, 2003	Salzburg	Big Air
4th	February 1, 2003	Munich	Big Air
5.	March 15, 2003	Arosa	Big Air
6th	March 13, 2004	Turin	Big Air
7th	January 9, 2005	Moscow	Big Air

Web links

• Jukka Erätuli in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)