Raimo Ylipulli

Raimo Ylipulli
nation	Finland
birthday	June 13, 1970
place of birth	Rovaniemi ,  Finland
Career
National squad	since 1986
status	not active
End of career	March 27, 1994
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1991 Val di Fiemme team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	February 16, 1986
Overall World Cup	15. ( 1990/91 )
Jump World Cup	16. (1990/91)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 0 1  Team jumping 0 0 1

Raimo Ylipulli (born June 13, 1970 in Rovaniemi ) is a former Finnish ski jumper .

Career

Ylipulli was accepted into the Finnish national team at the beginning of 1986 at the age of only 16 and competed in his first ski flying World Cup on February 16, 1986 in Vikersund . He finished jumping in 14th place.

His first competitions were without any significant success. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1991 in Val di Fiemme , he was able to reach 21st place in jumping on the normal hill and 20th place on the large hill and won the silver medal behind Austria in team jumping together with Ari-Pekka Nikkola , Vesa Hakala and Risto Laakkonen .

In ski flying on the Kulm he was able to jump into the top 10 for the first time on February 24, 1991 and in the end he reached 5th place. In the 1990/91 season he was able to achieve top 10 placements several times. Including his best individual result, a 3rd place on the large hill at Štrbské Pleso on March 30, 1991. He finished the season in 15th place in the overall World Cup ranking. He could not build on the successes in the following seasons. Only in the team competition on March 28, 1992 in Planica , he was able to achieve a podium again with third place, together with Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Toni Nieminen and Risto Laakkonen.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he achieved 18th place in the individual on the large hill and 5th in team competition together with Janne Ahonen , Jani Soininen and Janne Väätäinen .

After the Olympic Games, he completed four more World Cup competitions and ended his active jumping career after jumping in Thunder Bay, Canada on March 27, 1994.

Web links

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