Risto Mattila
Risto Mattila 
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| birthday | 4th February 1981 (age 39) | ||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Kannus , Finland | ||||||||||||||
| size | 177 cm | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||
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| society | Snowboard junkies, Sievi | ||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| status | not active | ||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2012 | ||||||||||||||
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 TTR World Snowboard Tour
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Risto Mattila (born February 4, 1981 in Kannus ) is a former Finnish snowboarder .
Career
Mattila, who for the snowboard junkies in Sievi starts, began his international career with 18 years on 27 November 1999 in Ruka in FIS races on the halfpipe . Three months later he reached 14th place in the same discipline at the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2000 in Berchtesgaden . A year later he was able to improve to seventh place at the 2001 Snowboard Junior World Championships in Hermagor-Pressegger See . Thereupon he made his debut in the Snowboard World Cup on March 16, 2001 and immediately reached tenth place on the halfpipe in Ruka.
On November 19, 2001 Mattila made it onto the podium for the first time with third place in Tignes . After this success in the halfpipe, he was able to celebrate his first podium in Big Air four weeks later in Whistler with second place. After another podium place in L'Alpe d'Huez in January and a fourth place at Big Air in Kreischberg, Mattila started at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . He reached 16th place in the victory of Ross Powers on the halfpipe. After the games he started the World Cup with a good fifth place in Big Air in Sapporo, Japan . At the end of the season he shone again in Tandådalen with a third place on the halfpipe, before finishing the season in second place in the overall halfpipe World Cup ranking. In the Big Air World Cup he was in 19th place in the end.
Since Mattila couldn't convince with 11th place at the Big Air in Berlin on October 26th, 2002, he started for the first time in November for a competition in the European Snowboard Cup . He clearly won the competition on the halfpipe in Laax . A week later he started again in the same place in the World Cup and in the end just narrowly missed the podium in fourth. On December 21, 2002, he won his first World Cup victory in Big Air in Stoneham, Canada . Just four weeks later at the 2003 Snowboard World Championship in Kreischberg , he won the world championship in the same discipline. In the halfpipe he clearly missed a medal in seventh place. After the world championship, he did not manage to achieve top positions in Munich and Arosa until the end of the season. Nonetheless, Mattila was able to fight for eighth place in the overall Big Air World Cup.
In September 2003 he was on the podium again at the Halfpipe World Cup in the Chilean Valle Nevado and repeated this second place in Tandådalen, before he won again in Big Air. On January 23, 2004 Mattila also achieved a World Cup victory in the halfpipe for the first time, which he was able to repeat the following day. At the end of the season in Bardonecchia he was once again at the top of the podium, which in the end brought him the overall World Cup victory on the halfpipe.
In the 2004/05 season he started after a 10th place in Saas-Fee with a win at the Big Air in Klagenfurt . At the 2005 World Snowboard Championships in Whistler there was no defense of the 2003 world championship. In the end, Mattila only finished fifth in Big Air and 17th in the halfpipe. Only three weeks later he was able to fight his way back to the top of the world in Bardonecchia and, after finishing second, achieved another victory in the halfpipe. At his last World Cup of the season in Turin , he also won the Big Air competition, which ultimately made him fifth in the Big Air World Cup overall ranking.
At the end of the season Mattila also started for the first time at Rannen as part of the TTR World Snowboard Tour . At the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships in March 2005, he won the slopestyle competition . In September 2005 he reached second place in Big Air at Freestyle.ch .
At the beginning of the 2005/06 Olympic World Cup season , Mattila was able to win another World Cup in Rotterdam after two rather poor results in Chile . In the TTR-Tour he got two second places at the Nissan X-Trail Jam and the O'Neill SB-Jam , before he reached eighth place in the halfpipe and 14th place in the Big Air at the 2006 Winter X-Games . However, he was unable to maintain the level of performance achieved in the World Cups and the Tour until the 2006 Winter Olympics . There, too, it was again only 10th place in the halfpipe. He finished the World Cup season as his most successful season in first place in the overall World Cup standings. In the TTR tour he could not reach any top ranks by the end of the season. It wasn't until August at the Billabong Slopestyle Jam that he reached a podium again with third place.
In the World Cup season 2006/07 started Mattila with a third place in Stockholm but had difficulties to tie in this success at the next competition in Saas-Fee. At the 2007 Snowboard World Championships in Arosa, he finished fifth in Big Air. After the world championship, Mattila no longer started in the world cup, but exclusively in the TTR tour. After a 13th place at the Winter X Games 2007 in the halfpipe, he reached positions 16 and 18 at the Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open. In September 2007 Mattila started again at the FIS World Cup and was 18th in the end New Zealand Cardrona .
At the beginning of the 2007/08 World Cup season , Mattila reached his last World Cup podium to date in Stockholm. It was also the only World Cup he participated in that season. In January 2008 he achieved two second places in the halfpipe and the quarterpipe at the O'Neill Evolution . After further rather mixed results he was fourth in the overall ranking at the end of the TTR World Snowboard Tour 2007/08.
In October and November 2008 he started again in two World Cup competitions in London and Stockholm, but only reached places 18 and eight in Big Air. At the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in the Korean province of Gangwon-do , he was unable to build on the successes of previous years and was only 47th in the big air and 15th in the halfpipe. Two weeks later he finished second in slopestyle at the Crans-Montana Champs Open . On February 16, 2009, he narrowly missed the podium at the Oakley Arctic Challenge and finished fourth. He finished the TTR season after further changeable results in fifth place overall.
In the 2009/10 season Mattila was unable to prevail in either the TTR Tour or the FIS World Cup and usually only achieved mediocre or even lower placements. It wasn't until the 2010/11 season that he got better performances. In February 2011 he was on the podium again for the first time at the Nescafé Champs Leysin with second place in the slopestyle.
After injuring himself while training on February 21, 2011, he had to take a long break. It was not until the end of 2011 that he was able to take part in international competitions again. After he was able to win the World Cup qualification in Ruka, he ended up in twelfth place in the competition. At the TTR Stars of the Stadium he reached 25th place in February 2012. In March Mattila started again at an FIS race in Ruka and reached fourth place in his last international appearance to date.
successes
- 2003 World Champion Big Air Kreischberg
- 2003/04 overall world cup winner on the halfpipe
- 2005 US Open, Slopestyle
- 2005 Best Overall Rider (best driver of the season)
- 2006 European Open, Superpipe Champion
- 2007 X-Trail Jam , Straight Jump , Japan
Web links
- Risto Mattila in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Risto Mattila in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile at the TTR World Snowboard Tour
Individual evidence
- ^ Snowboarding at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's Halfpipe . Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
- ↑ Medal table of the FIS World Championships ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Snowboarding at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's Halfpipe . Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
2003 : Risto Mattila | 2005 : Antti Autti | 2007 : Mathieu Crepel | 2009 : Markku Koski | 2011 : Petja Piiroinen | 2013 : Roope Tonteri | 2015 : Roope Tonteri | 2017 : Ståle Sandbech
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| SURNAME | Mattila, Risto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kannus , Finland |