Asikainen started for the first time on March 12, 2005 in the B-World Cup of the Nordic Combined, but could hardly achieve any successes worth mentioning. At the Junior World Championships 2007 in Tarvisio , Italy , he took part in the Nordic Combined competitions as well as the ski jumping competition held in Planica as a jumper for the Finnish team, and in the end came 3rd on the normal hill . In the Nordic Combined competitions, he was 29th in the Gundersen method and 17th in the sprint and finished 6th with the Finnish team. Participation in the ski jumping competition was the only one he competed with the Finnish team.
On November 29, 2008 Asikainen played his first A World Cup in Kuusamo and finished it in 43rd place. In the combination he mostly only achieved top 40 placements, mostly doing better in ski jumping and later losing places in cross-country skiing.
At the Junior World Championships 2009 he was able to achieve the 26th place in the first competition (HS100 / 5 km) and 23rd place in the second competition (HS100 / 10 km). With the team he came in 10th place. In the same year he was also used at the Nordic World Ski Championships . Here he reached a 47th place in the mass start (HS134 / 10 km) as well as a 33rd place in the Gundersen competition with a jump from the HS100 and an eighth place in the team competition with a jump from the HS134, together with Jaakko Tallus , Jim Härtull and Janne Ryynänen .
In the summer of 2010 Asikainen started for the first time in the Continental Cup competitions of the special jumpers after he had announced the change in his Facebook profile in the spring of the same year. However, he only came 27th in the 2nd round in Wisła . In winter Asikainen started exclusively in the Continental Cup, but never reached the 2nd round. At the Estonian Championships in Ski Jumping 2011 he was allowed to participate as a guest and took third place. At the summer competition on September 22, 2012 in Klingenthal , he was second behind Wolfgang Loitzl and achieved his first podium finish in the Continental Cup for special jumpers. On November 25, 2012, he debuted in the Norwegian Lillehammer in Ski Jumping World Cup , but was eliminated in the first through 39th. The following weekend he was 23rd in his home town of Kuusamo and then achieved his first eight World Cup points.
Asikainen held the hill record of 100 m on Paradiskullen (K90) in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden , from 2007 to 2010 .
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