Risto Jussilainen

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Risto Jussilainen 2006

Risto Jussilainen 2006

Full name Risto Kalevi Jussilainen
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday June 10, 1975
place of birth Jyväskylä ,  Finland
Career
society Jyväskylän Hiihtoseura
Trainer Anssi Nieminen
Pers. Best 224.5 m ( Planica 2005)
status resigned
End of career 2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 2002 Salt Lake City team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver 2001 Lahti Team
normal hill
silver 2001 Lahti Team
large hill
silver 2005 Oberstdorf Team
large hill
FIS Ski jumping junior world championship
gold 1993 Harrachov team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Debut in the World Cup 5th December 1992
 World Cup victories (individual) 2 ( details )
 World Cup victories (team) 7 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 3. ( 2000/01 )
 Ski flying world cup 3. (2000/01)
 Jump World Cup 8. (1999/00)
 Four Hills Tournament 7th ( 2000/01 )
 Nordic Tournament 8. (2002)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 1 5 5
 Ski flying 1 1 3
 Team jumping 7th 4th 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
 Overall Grand Prix 5th ( 2001 )
 

Risto Kalevi Jussilainen (born June 10, 1975 in Jyväskylä ) is a former Finnish ski jumper . He started for the club in his hometown, the Jyväskylän Hiihtoseura .

Career

Outside of the World Cup season, he trained at the Jyväskylä Ski Club in Finland. He competed in his first ski jumping competitions in 1985, but went to a state school until 1992. During his school days he worked in the afternoons at an Intersport , his current sponsor , in his hometown, where he still sometimes works today.

Risto Jussilainen won silver with the team from the normal hill and the large hill at the 2001 World Championships in Lahti, silver with the team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and silver with the team from the large hill at the 2005 World Cup . In the 2000/01 season he was third in the overall World Cup and in the Ski Flying World Cup, and by February 2006 he won two World Cups.

On November 23, 2007, shortly before the start of the new season, Jussilainen announced his retirement from active competitive sport due to poor training results in the summer.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place Type
1. March 4, 2001 GermanyGermany Oberstdorf Ski jump
2. November 24, 2001 FinlandFinland Kuopio Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season space Points
1993/94 84. 005
1994/95 54. 034
1996/97 63. 031
1998/99 43. 072
1999/00 08th. 624
2000/01 03. 938
2001/02 10. 474
2002/03 69. 013
2004/05 12. 526
2005/06 30th 155

Hill records

place country Expanse set up on Record up
Harrachov Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 212.5 m
( HS : 205 m)		 January 14, 2001 March 9, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Risto Jussilainen announces resignation ( Memento from February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Jussilainen, Risto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jussilainen, Risto Kalevi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä , Finland