Pekka Yli-Niemi

Pekka Yli-Niemi
Full name	Pekka Uolevi Yli-Niemi
nation	Finland
birthday	July 8, 1937
place of birth	Turku ,  Finland
date of death	November 8, 1963
Place of death	Mariehamn , Åland ,  Finland
Career
National squad	since 1961
End of career	1963
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	9. ( 1962/63 )

Pekka Uolevi Yli-Niemi (born July 8, 1937 in Turku , † November 8, 1963 in Mariehamn , Åland ) was a Finnish ski jumper .

Career

Yli-Niemi played his first and only international tournament with the Four Hills Tournament in 1962/63 . He achieved a good 25th place in the opening competition on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf . On the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck he landed in the top 20 for the first time and was twelfth. A few days later on the Great Olympic Hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Yliniemi achieved his best individual result in seventh place. In the fourth and final tournament jumping on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen he landed on the 26th place. In the overall tour ranking, Yli-Niemi came in ninth with 746.8 points.

Yli-Niemi set the first hill record with 87 meters at the inauguration of the Ounasvaara ski jump in Rovaniemi as early as 1962 , which lasted until 1965.

On November 8, 1963, Yli-Niemi died in a plane crash in Mariehamn .

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1962/63	09.	746.8

literature

• Arponen, Antti O .; Hannus, Matti; Honkavaara, Aarne; Leinonen, Kimmo; Mäki-Kuutti, Tarmo; Raatikainen, Voitto; & Raevuori, Antero: Talviurheilun tähdet . WSOY, 1986, ISBN 951-0-13095-8 , pp. 255 .

Web links

• Pekka Yli-Niemi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Pekka Yli-Niemi on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ounasvaara-Schanze on Skisprungschanzen.com