Tami Kiuru

Tami Kiuru
Tami Kiuru at Holmenkollen 2006
nation	Finland
birthday	September 13, 1976
place of birth	Vantaa ,  Finland
size	183 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura
Pers. Best	221.5 m ( Planica 2004)
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 × SFWM medals 0 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2006 Turin team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2003 Val di Fiemme Large hill team silver 2005 Oberstdorf Large hill team  Ski flying world championships silver 2004 Planica team bronze 2004 Planica singles silver 2006 Bad Mitterndorf team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	March 28, 1993
World Cup victories (individual)	01 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	03 ( details )
Overall World Cup	16. ( 2003/04 )
Ski flying world cup	13th ( 2000/01 )
Jump World Cup	36th ( 1999/00 )
Four Hills Tournament	22. ( 2003/04 )
Nordic Tournament	03rd (2003)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 1  Team jumping 3 5 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 19, 1995
Overall Grand Prix	09th ( 2003 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 1  Team jumping 0 3 0

Tami Petri Antero Kiuru (born September 13, 1976 in Vantaa ) is a former Finnish ski jumper . He started for the ski club of the city of Lahti, the Lahden Hiihtoseura .

Career

The Finn started ski jumping at the age of seven. He made his debut in the World Cup on March 28, 1993 in Planica, Slovenia . Then it took until the 1998/1999 season for the Finn to reappear. This was also due to a serious training fall in Lahti in December 1995 , in which he suffered a broken collarbone and a tear in a lung.

This fall and serious injury threw Kiuru back into the Continental Cup from the 1996/1997 to 1998/1999 season. On February 7, 1999 in Harrachov, Czech Republic , he made his comeback in the World Cup with an eighth place. With this result he got his first World Cup points.

In the following years he was constantly used in the World Cup team. He achieved his first podium in the team competition in ski flying in Planica on March 17, 2001, his first podium in the individual, a third place, he took almost exactly two years later, on March 15, 2003, on his home hill in Lahti. On December 14, 2003 he achieved his first and so far only victory in an individual competition when he won the World Cup on the Hochfirstschanze in Titisee-Neustadt , which was canceled after the first round due to difficult conditions .

On February 23, 2003, Tami Kiuru was world champion at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 with the team from the large hill, a year later he won silver with the team at the Ski Flying World Championships in Planica and achieved the bronze medal in the individual after he in the third of four races, he was even in the lead.

Since the 2004/2005 season , the tall and naturally petite jumper has been one of the victims of adapting the ski length to the body mass index . Due to his light figure, he now has to jump with shorter skis than before and than other, heavier-built athletes of his size. Nevertheless, he achieved silver with the team at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf as well as at the Ski Flying World Championships on Kulm 2006. He succeeded in doing this at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .

Kiuru also collected various individual medals at the internal Finnish championships, was once Finnish champion, twice runner-up and was bronze four times, including once during his junior years. There are also various team medals with the team from Lahden Hiihtoseura.

In March 2007 in Planica, Kiuru seriously injured his left knee in a fall after landing and had to undergo an operation because he had completely torn the anterior cruciate ligament and tore the posterior and both menisci and a collateral ligament. After starting jumping again in November 2007 after an eight-month break, it turned out that two more operations were necessary. He is currently still struggling with the consequences of the injuries. After the 2008/09 season, Kiuru ended his career as an active competitive athlete. He then studied photography in Jyväskylä and turned his hobby into a profession: primarily he deals with product photography and supplies u. a. Pictures of the women's ski jumping World Cup for the FIS .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	December 14, 2003	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 17, 2001	Planica	Ski jump
2.	March 21, 2003	Planica	Ski jump
3.	February 5, 2006	Willingen	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1998/99	47.	048
1999/00	37.	093
2000/01	38.	099
2001/02	37.	101
2002/03	21st	380
2003/04	16.	411
2004/05	33.	108
2005/06	20th	265
2006/07	40.	074
2008/09	64	011

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1995	81.	037
2003	09.	117
2004	51.	006th
2005	50.	014th
2006	29	091

Private

In addition to ski jumping, Tami Kiuru works for the Finnish telecommunications company Nordic LAN & WAN Communication Oy . He has been married since April 2004 and his hobbies are alpine skiing , telemarking , golf and photography.

Web links

Commons : Tami Kiuru  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tami Kiuru in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Tami Kiuru in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website of Tami Kiuru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiuru ends his career
2. ↑ Contact . In: Tami Kiuru . November 17, 2013 ( tamikiuru.com [accessed March 24, 2018]).
3. ↑ Record-breaking 54th win for Takanashi in Oberstdorf - FIS-SKI. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .