Olli-Pekka Peltola

Olli-Pekka Peltola
Association	Finland
birthday	September 8, 1969
place of birth	Nurmo
Career
job	soldier
society	Säkylän Urheilijat
status	resigned
End of career	2002
World Cup balance
last change: January 22, 2009

Olli-Pekka Peltola (born September 8, 1969 in Nurmo ) is a former Finnish biathlete .

Olli-Pekka Peltola serves as a staff sergeant in the Finnish armed forces. He started for Säkylän Urheilijat . He started biathlon at the age of six. At the same time he was an active cross-country skier. In this sport, he contested his first races when he was ten. In biathlon, he made his first race at the age of 14. As early as 1991 he took part in the Biathlon World Championships in Lahti and was seventh in the relay alongside Vesa Hietelahti , Harri Eloranta and Ismo Mäkinen . He achieved the same result with Mäkinen, Antero Lähde and Eloranta in the team competition. At the 1998 Olympic Winter Games of Nagano , he joined together with Ville Raikkonen , Eloranta and Paavo Puurunen in the season and finished eighth. Shortly afterwards, Peltola managed to score his first World Cup points in the Pokljuka singles in 24th. The Finn achieved his best World Cup result only a little later as 17th of a sprint in Hochfilzen . Between the two results he competed in a pursuit race at Pokljuka, which was a world championship race based on the sprint race of the Olympic sprint . The Finn came in 44th. In addition, he narrowly missed a medal in the also non-Olympic team competition as fourth in the line-up of the Olympic relay. The following season he was sixth with the relay in Ruhpolding . The last highlight in Peltola's career was the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City . At the competitions in Soldier Hollow , the Finn started in the sprint and was 73rd After the games, he ended his active career.

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					2	4th	6th
Points	1	1			2	4th	8th
Starts	8th	15th	5	2		4th	34

(Data not complete)

Web links

• Olli-Pekka Peltola in the IBU database (English)
• Olli-Pekka Peltola in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )