Jukka Ylipulli

Jukka Ylipulli
Full name	Jukka Petteri Ylipulli
nation	Finland
birthday	February 6, 1963
place of birth	Rovaniemi ,  Finland
size	176 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
society	Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura
National squad	since 1983
status	resigned
End of career	1991
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1984 Sarajevo singles  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1984 Rovaniemi 3 × 10 km team (NH) bronze 1985 Seefeld in Tirol 3 × 10 km team (NH)
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	17th December 1983
Overall World Cup	15. ( 1985/86 , 1987/88 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 1 0

Jukka Petteri Ylipulli (born February 6, 1963 in Rovaniemi ) is a former Finnish Nordic combined skier .

Career

Ylipulli began his sports career as a swimmer and even won the title of Finnish Junior Champion once before he gave up swimming at the age of 15 and switched to skiing.

Ylipulli, who started for Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura , made his international debut as a Nordic combined athlete on December 17, 1983 as part of the Nordic Combined World Cup in Seefeld in Tyrol . As a 14th, he immediately reached the points. A few weeks later he won the bronze medal in the individual competition of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1984 in his hometown of Rovaniemi , he won the team silver medal together with Rauno Miettinen in Jouko Karjalainen . In the 1984/84 season he was able to land in the points again in St. Moritz . In January 1985 in Schonach in the Black Forest he achieved a top 10 placement for the first time in sixth place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 1985 in Seefeld , he finished third together with Karjalainen and Jyri Pelkonen and thus won bronze.

In the 1985/86 season he only started in February 1986 in Lahti and missed it in fourth his first podium just wide. After he also clearly landed in the points in Oslo , he finished the season in 15th place overall. This place he succeeded in the 1987/88 season , in which he also achieved his first and only World Cup podium with second place in Rovaniemi. As a result, however, Ylipulli was unable to build on this success. With the start at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1991 in Val di Fiemme , he ended his active career. He was able to take sixth place with the team.

After the end of his active career, Ylipulli worked as a combination coach. From 1991 to 1996 he coached the Finnish juniors, before taking over as head coach of the senior squad from 1993. From 2001 to 2002 he was the coach of the US team. In 2004 he returned to the coaching position of the Finnish national team.

In his free time, Ylipulli devotes himself to orienteering . His younger brothers Tuomo and Raimo were successful ski jumpers .

successes

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

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place	1					1
3rd place
Top 10	7th					7th
Scoring	14th					14th
Starts	14th					14th
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Web links

• Jukka Ylipulli in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jukka Ylipulli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jukka Ylipulli in the Munzinger archive
• Jukkia Ylipulli on The-Sports.org