Mika Kojonkoski

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Mika Kojonkoski Ski jumping
Mika Kojonkoski 2012

Mika Kojonkoski 2012

nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday April 19, 1963
place of birth Rauma ,  FinlandFinlandFinland 
Career
National squad since 1985
status resigned
Medal table
National medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Finnish Ski Association logo Finnish championships
silver 1982 singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Overall World Cup 50th ( 1985/86 )
 

Mika Kojonkoski (born April 19, 1963 in Rauma ) is a former Finnish ski jumper and trainer. Most recently he was in charge of the Norwegian national ski jumping team. He has been chairman of the FIS ski jumping committee since 2015 .

Career

Ski jumper

Kojonkoski was a moderately successful ski jumper in the mid-1980s. His best World Cup result was in 1985 a ninth place on the normal hill in Chamonix , at the ski flying world championship 1985 in Planica he reached the 23rd place in individual flying . At the Finnish championships he had caused a sensation a few years earlier when he surprisingly became runner-up.

Ski jumping coach

Most recently Kojonkoski was considered one of the best ski jumping trainers worldwide. From 1997 to 1999 he was the trainer of the Austrian, from 1999 to 2002 the Finnish and from 2002 to 2011 the Norwegian national ski jumping team .

In Austria , Finland and Norway he always managed to train victory jumpers from previously mediocre athletes.

Under his aegis Sigurd Pettersen won numerous World Cup victories in 2002, as well as winning the Four Hills Tournament 2003/2004. Mention should also be made of Bjørn Einar Romøren's world record flight at 239 meters during ski flying in Planica in 2005. On February 11, 2011, this distance was exceeded by the Norwegian ski jumper Johan Remen Evensen in Vikersund with an initial 243 meters in training and 246.5 meters in qualification.

The Norwegian team won gold at the Ski Flying World Championships on Kulm in 2006; it was the second team title that Kojonkoski could book.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Norway won only one disappointing bronze medal, but with Lars Bystøl and Roar Ljøkelsøy he also looked after two jumpers who won medals in individual competitions: Ljøkelsøy bronze on the normal hill and Bystøl gold on the normal hill and bronze on the Large hill.

Kojonkoski is also one of the discoverers of Anders Jacobsen , who won the Four Hills Tournament in 2006/2007 , and Tom Hilde , who finally established himself at the top of the World Cup in the following season. At the end of the 2010/11 season he finished his work as a trainer for the Norwegian team and left the ski jumping circuit to work for the Finnish Ski Association in the future.

During the 2012/2013 World Cup season , discussions arose that Kojonkoski could replace the criticized Finnish head coach Pekka Niemelä .

Others

In addition to his work as a trainer, Kojonkoski is also politically active. He sat for the national coalition party in the city parliament of Kuopio for eight years and was one of the supporters of Sauli Niinistö in the Finnish presidential elections in 2006 .

Kojonkoski is married and has three children.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 385
  2. ↑ skispringen.com: Double victory: Schlierenzauer and Zyla win in Oslo , accessed on March 17, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kojonkoski, Mika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ski jumper, trainer and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Rauma , Finland