Olli Happonen

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Full name Olli Happonen
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday February 10, 1976
place of birth JyväskyläFinland
job Musician, mediator
Career
status resigned
End of career 2000
Medal table
JWM medals 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
gold 1992 Vuokatti team
gold 1993 Harrachov team
gold 1994 Breitenwang team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Debut in the World Cup 1992
 Overall World Cup 59th ( 1992/93 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the COC 1993
 COC wins (individual) 03 ( details )
 Overall ranking COC 01. ( 1994/95 )
 

Olli Happonen (born February 10, 1976 in Jyväskylä ) is a former Finnish ski jumper and musician .

Career

Ski jumping

Happonen started ski jumping when he was 11 years old, was a member of the Finnish A-team between 1993 and 1997 and also competed in the World Cup in 1993 . As the best result in the World Cup, he achieved 15th place in the individual in 1993 (March 28, 1993 in Planica ), and 5th place in the team the day before, both on the large hill. When he no longer achieved top results, Happonen was assigned to the Finnish B-squad and started in competitions of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup , where he won the overall ranking ahead of Martin Höllwarth and teammate Risto Jussilainen in the 1994/1995 season and thus celebrated his greatest success could. He was also able to win the Junior World Championship with the Finnish junior team (consisting of: Janne Ahonen , Risto Jussilainen , Janne Väätäinen and Happonen himself) in 1992, 1993 and 1994. From 1995 Happonen lived in Kuopio and moved from his hometown club "Jyväskylän Hiihtoseura" to the club Puijon Hiihtoseura , since he was part of the Finnish national team from 1993 and better training opportunities were offered in Kuopio.

In 2000, Happonen ended his active career to take care of his private life and family. In addition, after retiring from his career, he trained the ski jumping team of the Finnish juniors for 3 years.

Musician

In addition to skiing, Happonen's hobby has always been to play the drums and violin since he was five. Through ski jumping he finally met his colleagues Ville Kantee , Jarkko Saapunki and Jussi Hautamäki , with whom he is now active as a drummer in the band The Kroisos and has released several single CDs.

Happonen now lives with his wife Niina and his two sons Rasmus and Roni and daughter Noora in Jyväskylä , where he and his former teammate Risto Jussilainen have been running an employment agency since the beginning of the year .

successes

Continental Cup wins in singles

No. date place Type
1. December 11, 1993 GermanyGermany Lauscha Normal hill
2. 1995 NorwayNorway Sprova Normal hill
3. 1995 NorwayNorway Sprova Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season Jump World Cup Ski flying world cup total
space Points space Points space Points
1992/93 - - - - 59. 001

Grand Prix placements

season space Points
1995 44. 301

Continental Cup placements

season summer winter total
space Points space Points space Points
1993/94 - - - - 030th 234
1994/95 - - - - 001. 867
1995/96 - - - - 108. 065
1996/97 - - - - 154. 040
1997/98 - - - - 177. 037
1998/99 - - - - 194. 020th

Web links

Commons : Olli Happonen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The Kroisos on palannut huikean singlen kera. (No longer available online.) In: Radio Finlandia . September 8, 2014, archived from the original on January 27, 2017 ; Retrieved January 27, 2017 (Finnish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiofinlandia.net
  2. a b c Winner and winner of international ski jumping competitions. skisprungschanzen.com, accessed on January 27, 2017 .