Mika Myllyl

Mika Myllyl
Mika Myllylä (2001)
Full name	Mika Kristian Myllyl
nation	Finland
birthday	September 12, 1969
place of birth	Haapajärvi , Finland
date of death	July 5, 2011
Place of death	Kokkola , Finland
Career
job	professional athletes
society	Joutsan Pommi
End of career	2004
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 4 × World Cup medals 4 × 3 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 1994 Lillehammer 50 km classic bronze 1994 Lillehammer 30 km freestyle bronze 1994 Lillehammer Season gold 1998 Nagano 30 km classic bronze 1998 Nagano 10 km classic bronze 1998 Nagano Season  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1995 Thunder Bay 10 km classic gold 1997 Trondheim 50 km classic silver 1997 Trondheim persecution bronze 1997 Trondheim 10 km classic silver 1997 Trondheim Season gold 1999 Ramsau 50 km classic gold 1999 Ramsau 30 km freestyle gold 1999 Ramsau 10 km classic silver 1999 Ramsau persecution
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup December 7, 1991  World Cup victories in individual 10 ( details )  Overall World Cup 2. (1996/97)  Distance World Cup 1. (1996/97)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 10 7th 8th
last change: February 23, 2013

Mika Kristian Myllylä [ ˈmikɑ ˈmylːylæ ] (born September 12, 1969 in Haapajärvi , † July 5, 2011 in Kokkola ) was a Finnish cross-country skier . With six Olympic and nine World Cup medals he is one of the most successful skiers in his country.

Life

Mika Myllylä began to practice cross-country skiing on a regular basis in 1981. He made his first international appearance in 1991 at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Fiemme Valley . Soon Myllylä, along with Jari Isometsä and Sami Repo, was part of the young, up-and-coming guard of Finnish long-distance runners.

Myllylä celebrated his breakthrough in the 1996/97 World Cup season, when he won his first World Cup race over 10 km in classic style in Davos , which was followed by further World Cup victories in freestyle races. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim in 1997 , he won gold over 50 km, as well as two silver (pursuit races, relay) and one bronze (10 km).

At the following Olympic Winter Games in 1998 Myllylä won the gold medal over 30 km classic. It was the first Olympic victory by a Finnish individual runner since the successes of Eero Mäntyrantas in 1964. Myllylä also achieved three other world championships at the 1999 Nordic World Ski Championships . In 1997 and 1999, he was voted Sportsman of the Year in Finland .

At the 2001 World Cup in Lahti , Myllylä was convicted of doping . He, Jari Isometsä, Harri Kirvesniemi and other Finnish cross-country skiers had been given an infusion of hydroxyethyl starch , an agent that can be used to enrich blood plasma . The resigned head coach Kari-Pekka Kyrö said that the team had consciously doped with the knowledge of responsible officials.

After a two-year ban, Myllylä tried a comeback, but ended his career in September 2004. After that, he earned his living in the real estate business, among other things.

Myllylä suffered from alcohol addiction after his career. In March 2006, he had to seek medical treatment for a racing heart after years of alcohol abuse. He has also received a number of sentences for assault and other offenses.

In 2010 it became known that he had admitted to EPO abuse during a police interrogation in April 2009 . Myllyla admitted to the Finnish broadcaster Channel Four that she injected herself with the syringes. He was the first Finnish cross-country skier from the 2001 World Cup team to admit the use of doping substances.

Mika Myllylä was married and had three children. The marriage was divorced in 2007. In spring 2009, the couple got back together, but separated again.

On July 5, 2011, Myllylä was found dead in his Kokkola apartment.

successes

winter Olympics

• 1994 in Lillehammer : silver over 50 km, bronze over 30 km, bronze with the relay
• 1998 in Nagano : Gold over 30 km, bronze over 10 km, bronze with the relay

World championships

• 1995 in Thunder Bay : Bronze over 10 km
• 1997 in Trondheim : Gold over 50 km, silver in the pursuit race, bronze over 10 km, silver with the relay
• 1999 in Ramsau : gold over 50 km, gold over 30 km, gold over 10 km, silver in the pursuit race

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 7, 1996	Davos	10 km classic
2.	4th January 1997	Kavgolovo	30 km freestyle
3.	March 2, 1997	Trondheim	50 km classic 1
4th	January 3, 1998	Kavgolovo	30 km freestyle
5.	February 14, 1999	Seefeld	10 km freestyle
6th	February 19, 1999	Ramsau	30 km freestyle 2
7th	February 22, 1999	Ramsau	10 km classic 2
8th.	February 28, 1999	Ramsau	50 km classic 2
9.	February 2, 2000	Trondheim	10 km freestyle
10.	December 20, 2000	Davos	30 km classic

¹ Nordic World Ski Championships 1997.

² Nordic World Ski Championships 1999.

World Cup overall placements

season	total		Long distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1991/92	11	32.	-	-	-	-
1992/93	78	34.	-	-	-	-
1993/94	430	4th	-	-	-	-
1994/95	340	8th.	-	-	-	-
1995/96	238	14th	-	-	-	-
1996/97	580	2.	235	1.	165	7th
1997/98	308	7th	196	2.	112	13.
1998/99	573	3.	312	3.	261	8th.
1999/2000	149	39.	40 109	29. 26. 3	-	-
2000/01	147	33.	-	-	-	-

³ Middle distance world cup.

Web links

Commons : Mika Myllylä  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Mika Myllylä in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Mika Myllylä in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Mika Myllylä . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 36/1998 from August 24, 1998, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 05/2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mika Myllylä on kuollut at hs.fi, July 5, 2011
3. ↑ www.handelsblatt.com
4. ↑ "Ei elämä tähän pääty" at iltalehti.fi, August 31, 2007
5. ↑ Mika ja Suvi Myllylä palasivat yhteen at iltasanomat.fi, February 23, 2009
6. ↑ Perhe jätti ryyppäämään ratkenneen Mika Myllylän at iltasanomat.fi, October 29, 2009
7. ↑ Cross-country Olympic champion Myllylä found dead at zeit.de, July 5, 2011 (accessed on July 5, 2011).