Kalle Keituri

Kalle Keituri
Kalle Keituri at the 2010 Olympics
nation	Finland
birthday	April 25, 1984
place of birth	Lahti ,  Finland
size	170 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
society	Kouvolan Hiihtoseura
Trainer	Kimmo Kykkänen Kai Lahtinen
Pers. Best	205.5 m ( Planica 2005)
status	resigned
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EYOF medals 1 × 0 × 0 × National medals 3 × 0 × 1 ×
Ski jumping junior world championship gold 2002 Schonach team bronze 2002 Schonach singles  European Youth Olympic Festival gold 2001 Vuokatti team Finnish championships gold 2009 Lahti team gold 2010 Lahti Large hill gold 2010 Lahti team bronze 2013 Lahti Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	March 1, 2002
World Cup victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall World Cup	21st ( 2008/09 )
Ski flying world cup	24th (2008/09)
Four Hills Tournament	26th ( 2008/09 )
Nordic Tournament	29th (2004)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Team jumping 2 2 3

Kalle Keituri (born April 25, 1984 in Lahti ) is a former Finnish ski jumper .

Career

Keituri started ski jumping in 1990. He first appeared internationally at the Continental Cup competition on November 17, 2001 in Kuusamo , where he immediately jumped into the points with a 23rd place. His first podium in the Continental Cup followed on January 12, 2002 at the competition in Bischofshofen , two weeks later he won the gold medal with the Finnish team and the bronze medal in the individual at the Junior World Championships in Schonach in the Black Forest .

On March 1st, 2002 he made his debut in the Lahti Ski Games in the World Cup, and in the competition on his home hill, the Salpausselkä-Schanze , he immediately achieved World Cup points with 19th place. Nevertheless, it was not until the 2004/2005 season that he was able to record more than one World Cup appearance per season. This season he also set his personal best when he made a flight of 205.5 meters on March 19, 2005 in Planica, Slovenia . In the following winters, the Finn only made sporadic appearances in the World Cup and even considered retiring after the end of the 2007/2008 season. It was not until the 2008/2009 season that he became a permanent member of the World Cup team, achieved his first two World Cup victories with the team, one of them on "semi-home" soil when the Finnish team took part in the team ski flying on February 15, 2009 Oberstdorf won. Keituri celebrated his first win with the team on November 29, 2008 in Kuusamo. His best individual result was dated January 31, 2009, when he finished fourth at the World Cup in Sapporo, Japan . He finished his first complete World Cup season in 21st place in the overall World Cup. At the 2009 World Championships in Liberec , Czech Republic , he took sixth place with the Finnish team in the team competition on the large hill. In the individual competitions he finished 29th (normal hill) and 31st (large hill). This was his only World Cup participation. On September 25, 2010 he won the Finnish championship title on the large hill in Lahti .

At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he reached 22nd place in jumping from the normal hill and, with the Finnish team, was fourth behind Norway and narrowly missed Olympic gold. In 2011 there were reports of a possible end of career. As Keituri announced shortly afterwards, however, in the future he will concentrate on studying design in addition to ski jumping, but will continue to be active as a ski jumper.

Keituri is married to a German. The couple has lived in Thal in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen since October 2011 . He started with a double club membership, belonged to both the club of his hometown Lahti, the Lahden Hiihtoseura and the SC Oberstdorf . Since 2012 he has started for Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura , who is based in Rovaniemi , but is still a member of SC Oberstdorf , for which he says he is not allowed to compete in international competitions due to his membership of the Finnish Ski Association .

At the beginning of April 2016, Keituri announced the end of his active ski jumping career.

Keituri currently lives in his hometown of Lahti.

successes

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	November 29, 2008	Kuusamo	Large hill
2.	February 15, 2009	Oberstdorf	Ski jump

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2001/02	65.	012
2002/03	81.	003
2004/05	58.	022nd
2006/07	58.	029
2007/08	49.	029
2008/09	21st	293
2009/10	34.	110
2010/11	61.	014th

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2013/14	83.	037

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2006	83.	001
2007	78.	002
2008	16.	137
2009	41.	039
2010	08th.	182

Web links

• Kalle Keituri in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kalle Keituri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ result in www.berkutschi.com
2. ↑ Kalle Keituri: "I will not stop" . www.skijumping.de. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
3. ↑ Dwóch FINOW zakończyło Kariery. On: skijumping.pl, April 5, 2016. Accessed April 6, 2016.