Tapio Piipponen

Tapio Piipponen
Full name	Ville Juha Tapio Piipponen
Association	Finland
birthday	June 21, 1957
place of birth	Sotkamo
Career
society	Sotkamon Jymy
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 3 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 1985 Ruhpolding singles  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 1977 Lillehammer singles bronze 1977 Lillehammer Season bronze 1978 Hochfilzen singles bronze 1978 Hochfilzen Season
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Ville Juha Tapio Piipponen (born June 21, 1957 in Sotkamo ) is a former Finnish biathlete . Between 1981 and 1989 he took part in all major events at the highest level in biathlon, including two Winter Olympics.

Tapio Piipponen was active for Sotkamon Jymy . He was already successful as a junior athlete. At the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 1977 in Lillehammer , he won the silver medal in the individual and bronze in the relay race behind Frank Ullrich . A year later he repeated his success with the relay in Hochfilzen and also won another medal in the individual with bronze behind Andreas Heß and Mathias Jung . He contested his first international men's championship at the Biathlon World Championships in Lahti in 1981 , where he reached the top 15 twice in individual races. In 1983 the Finn missed the relay ranks by just two places in Antholz with Erkki Antila , Risto Punkka and Toivo Mäkykyro as fifth in the relay race. Piipponen also achieved good results at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . In the individual he was 12th, in the sprint 15th and with Keijo Tiitola , Toivo Mäkykyro and Arto Jääskeläinen as the final runner of the Finnish season seventh. He achieved his greatest success the following year at the World Championships in Ruhpolding , where he won the individual silver medal behind Juri Kaschkarow and Frank-Peter Roetsch . It was the last time a Finnish medal was won at a major event, until 16 years later Paavo Puurunen won the World Cup gold in the same discipline in Pokljuka . A year later , with Juha Tella , Antero Lähde and Arto Jääskeläinen, he just missed a medal in the relay race in fourth place and achieved further good results with ranks eleven in the individual and nine in the sprint. Also in 1987 in Lake Placid Piipponen was able to reach the top ten in sixth place. Good results also followed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . He was eighth in the individual, seventh in the sprint and only missed the ranks of the top ten with the relay as 12th. The last major international event was the Biathlon World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz , where he narrowly missed a final place in eleventh in the individual. Piipponen also regularly reached the points in the Biathlon World Cup .

Results at international championships

event	singles	sprint	Season	team
World Cup 1981 in Lahti	15th	11	06th
World Cup 1982 in Minsk		23
World Cup 1983 in Antholz	32		05
OS 1984 in Sarajevo	12	15th	07th
1985 World Cup in Ruhpolding	03	17th	07th
World Cup 1986 in Oslo	11	09	04th
World Cup 1987 in Lake Placid	06th	12
OS 1988 in Calgary	08th	07th	12
1989 World Cup in Feistritz	11	21st		05

World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place	1						1
Top 10	4th	2			1	5	12
Scoring	8th	10			1	6th	25th
Starts	9	10			1	6th	26th
Status : End of career, including World Cup and Olympics, data not complete

Web links

• Tapio Piipponen in the IBU database (English)
• Tapio Piipponen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results at the-sports.org