Olli Muotka

Olli Muotka
Olli Muotka at Holmenkollen 2010
nation	Finland
birthday	July 14, 1988
place of birth	Rovaniemi ,  Finland
job	college student
Career
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura (since 2011)
National squad	since 2005
Pers. Best	226 m ( Vikersund 2011)
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × SFWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × FM medals 3 × 3 × 1 ×
Ski jumping junior world championship bronze 2007 Planica team  Ski flying world championships bronze 2010 Planica team Finnish championships silver 2009 Lahti team bronze 2010 Lahti team gold 2011 Kuopio Large hill gold 2011 Rovaniemi Normal hill gold 2011 Jyväskylä team silver 2012 Kuusamo Large hill silver 2012 Lahti team silver 2013 Jyväskylä Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 16, 2010
Overall World Cup	43rd ( 2010/11 )
Ski flying world cup	25th (2010/11)
Four Hills Tournament	52nd (2010/11)
Nordic Tournament	31st (2010)
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	34th (2013)
last change: January 9, 2015

Olli Muotka (born July 14, 1988 in Rovaniemi ) is a Finnish ski jumper .

Career

Muotka, who has competed for the Lahden Hiihtoseura club since the 2011/2012 season and previously for Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura , the club in his hometown Rovaniemi, was active as a Nordic combined skier before his career as a ski jumper and started there in the World Cup B. Muotka had his first international appearances in the third-class FIS Cup in Kuopio in December 2005, where he scored straight away with a 24th place. Also in the Continental Cup , where he made his debut on December 1, 2007 in Pragelato , Italy , he was able to score points in his first competition and finished the competition in 21st place. He achieved his first victory in the Continental Cup on December 27, 2010 in Switzerland Engelberg .

In March 2007, the student won the bronze medal in the team competition at the Junior World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy, alongside Sami Niemi , Mika Kauhanen and Lauri Asikainen . On March 9, 2009, Muotka was used as a member of the national group in Kuopio for the first time in a qualification for a World Cup competition, but missed the qualification with 59th place.

He got his first World Cup points on January 16, 2010 when jumping in Sapporo , Japan , which he finished in 14th place. A result that he has only been able to repeat once, on February 13, 2011 in Vikersund . Almost two months later, he and Janne Happonen , Matti Hautamäki and Harri Olli won the bronze medal in the team competition of the 2010 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica as a replacement for the missing Janne Ahonen .

At the Finnish Ski Jumping Championships 2011 in Kuopio , Muotka won the title on the large hill ahead of Jarkko Määttä and Juha-Matti Ruuskanen . A week later he followed up with the normal hill title in his hometown of Rovaniemi.

successes

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2009/10	55.	41
2010/11	43.	76
2011/12	59.	21st
2012/13	58.	21st
2013/14	63.	31

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2010	51.	18th
2012	61.	13
2013	34.	85

Web links

Commons : Olli Muotka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Olli Muotka in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Ski jumping
• Olli Muotka in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Olli Muotka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “COC-M First Victory for Olli Muotka” on www.berkutschi.com , accessed on March 14, 2012.
2. ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on January 15, 2012.
3. ↑ Olli Muotka Finnish champion on the large hill . In: skispringen-news.de . March 26, 2011. Accessed on June 19, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ "Next victory for Muotka - Koivuranta continues" at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on March 14, 2012.