Katri Lylynperä

Katri Lylynperä
nation	Finland
birthday	3rd January 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Finland
Career
society	Vuokatti Ski Team
status	active
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup March 9, 2013  Overall World Cup 55th ( 2019/20 )  Sprint World Cup 30. (2019/20)  Distance World Cup 86th (2019/20)  U23 World Cup 23. ( 2015/16 , 2016/17 )
last change: March 21, 2020

Katri Lylynperä (born January 3, 1994 ) is a Finnish cross-country skier .

Career

Lylynperä mainly participated in junior races until 2013. She became Finnish junior sprint champion in Kemi in 2012 and Pyhäjärvi in 2013 . At the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck , she took 19th place in the mixed relay, 14th place over 5 km classic and fifth place in the sprint. In February 2012 she came in 24th place in the skiathlon and 23rd place in the sprint at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Erzurum . At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2013 in Liberec , she achieved 25th place in the skiathlon, tenth place in the sprint and eighth place in the relay. She ran her first World Cup race in March 2013 in Lahti , which he finished in 51st place in the sprint. In November 2013 she reached the 78th place at the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo . Since the 2013/14 season she has mainly started in the Scandinavian Cup . So far she has been in the top ten three times. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2014 in Val di Fiemme , 17th place over 5 km was classic and sixth place with the relay was her best results. In February 2015 she came in at the U23 World Championships in Almaty on the 28th place over 10 km freestyle, 19th place in the skiathlon and 18th place in the sprint. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , she came 48th at the Nordic Opening in Ruka . With the 21st place in the sprint stage she got her first World Cup points. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2016 in Râşnov , she finished 18th over 10 km classic and 11th over 10 km freestyle and sprint. In March 2016 she became the Finnish junior champion over 15 km classic. At the 2017 U23 World Championships in Soldier Hollow , she finished 42nd in sprint and 18th in skiathlon. In February 2017 she came 32nd in the sprint at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. In February 2019 she became Finnish sprint champion in Imatra and achieved 45th place in sprint at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld in Tyrol . At the Winter Universiade 2019 in Krasnoyarsk , she won the bronze medal in the team sprint together with Joonas Sarkkinen .

Placements in the World Cup

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											1
Scoring		1					8th		9	4th	1
Starts	2	10				4th	26th	3	45	4th	1
Status: end of season 2019/20

^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

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2015/16	10	88	-	-	10	57.
2016/17	4th	108.	-	-	4th	79.
2017/18	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	13	89.	-	-	13	57.
2019/20	67	55.	2	86.	65	30th

Web links

• Katri Lylynperä in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)