Ville Larinto

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Full name Ville Andreas Larinto
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday 11th April 1990 (age 30)
place of birth Lahti , Finland
size 174 cm
Weight 59 kg
job soldier
Career
society Lahden Hiihtoseura
Trainer Jari Larinto
National squad since 2008
Pers. Best 214.0 m ( Planica 2017)
status resigned
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 6 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Ski jumping junior world championship
bronze 2009 Štrbské Pleso singles
Finnish Ski Association logo Finnish championships
gold 2008 Rovaniemi Normal hill
gold 2009 Lahti team
gold 2010 Rovaniemi Normal hill
gold 2010 Lahti team
silver 2012 Lahti team
gold 2017 Lahti Single normal hill
gold 2017 Lahti Large hill team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Debut in the World Cup December 1, 2007
 World Cup victories (individual) 01 ( details )
 World Cup victories (team) 01 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 14th ( 2008/09 )
 Ski flying world cup 17th (2008/09)
 Four Hills Tournament 14th ( 2008/09 )
 Nordic Tournament 22. (2009)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 1 2 2
 Team jumping 1 2 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
 Overall Grand Prix 24. ( 2008 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
 Overall ranking COC 54th ( 2007/08 )
last change: March 24, 2017

Ville Andreas Larinto (born April 11, 1990 in Lahti ) is a former Finnish ski jumper .

Career

Larinto, who competes for the Lahden Hiihtoseura club , came to ski jumping at the age of four through his father, the formerly successful Jari Larinto . This subsequently also became his trainer. He made his debut in the World Cup on December 1, 2007 in Kuusamo , where he reached 36th place. In Engelberg he was 48th and 41st. In Oberstdorf he reached his first World Cup points in 29th place. At the Summer Grand Prix in Hinterzarten on July 26, 2008, Larinto and the Finnish team came in fifth. His best summer single placement was a sixth place in Liberec .

The 2008/09 World Cup season was the first season in which the Finn was part of the A-Team. This season he also took part in both the Junior World Championships in Štrbské Pleso , where he won the bronze medal in the individual, as well as the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, where he was seventh from the normal and twelfth from the individual Large hill was. With the Finnish team he reached sixth place. Even before the season started, the Finn had drawn attention to himself when he won the Finnish championship on the normal hill in Rovaniemi , when he clearly left jumpers like Matti Hautamäki and Harri Olli behind.

His best individual placings in the World Cup are two second places, which he achieved on December 6, 2008 in Trondheim, Norway and on January 25, 2009 on the large Olympic hill at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. When jumping in Vancouver he jumped like Gregor Schlierenzauer to the hill record distance of 149 meters, but could not stand the jump - in contrast to the Austrian.

The Finn won his first World Cup victory on November 29, 2008 with the team in Kuusamo.

At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season Larinto showed a weaker form than in the pre-winter, which led to the fact that he was removed from the World Cup team after the Four Hills Tournament. At the Finnish championships on the normal hill on March 27, 2010 in Rovaniemi , however, he was able to win the title.

The Finn won his first World Cup victory in an individual competition on December 1, 2010 in Kuopio. At the New Year's competition in 2011, he reached the absolute top distance of 140.5 meters in the first jump, but fell and tore a cruciate ligament, which meant that he was out for the rest of the season. At this point, Larinto was in the top five in the overall World Cup.

In the summer of 2011, Larinto injured his knee again just a short time after he had started jumping again, which required another operation. Larinto returned to the World Cup as part of the team competition at the Salpausselän kisat in March 2012 in his hometown of Lahti, although he did not get any top placements in the short remaining season. On December 8, 2012, he was 24th in Sochi, Russia , for the first time after his injury to win World Cup points. However, it remained the only points of the season.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , Larinto failed in both individual competitions in round one. In the end, he finished 42nd on the normal hill and 47th on the large hill. In the team competition it was enough for him and his teammates to finish eleventh. At the beginning of the following winter 2013/14 Larinto only started in the Continental Cup . After he reached the points in Lahti , he clearly missed them in Engelberg . In January he came back to the World Cup squad for two competitions, but got stuck again in Sapporo in the first round. Larinto could not qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . In February he collected points again in the Continental Cup in Brotterode . In March he started again at the World Cups in Scandinavia and in Planica for the season finale . He made it into the points several times. He collected a total of 27 points, making him 65th overall in the World Cup. In the 2014/15 season Larinto started with two good finishes in on the Rukatunturi hill in Ruka ( Kuusamo ). In Nizhny Tagil he reached the 15th for the first time in many years the top 20. In February, he started at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Swedish Falun . Larinto jumped from the normal hill to 47th place. After he did not start from the large hill, he and the team achieved ninth place in the team competition.

In the summer of 2015, Larinto started with good results in the Ski Jumping Grand Prix , but was unable to develop consistency and in the end only finished 53rd in the overall ranking. Larinto also got off to a weak start in the new 2015/16 season . Until the Four Hills Tournament he could not even place in the points. During the tour, he even missed qualification in Bischofshofen . It was not until a few days later in Willingen that Larinto managed to reach the points again for the first time. After he achieved a rather poor result in team jumping with the team in seventh place, he managed to jump into the top 20 again with 17th place in individual jumping. At the following ski flying world championship in 2016 , Larinto flew to 34th place. He also took seventh place in team flying with the Finnish team. In the other World Cups until the end of the season, Larinto again remained without points. At the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2016 he only started one competition and won four points in Courchevel in 27th place.

In the 2016/17 season , Larinto did not start at all World Cups again. Although he also skipped the Four Hills Tournament in 2016/17 , he had already qualified for the 2017 World Championships in his home town of Lahti with two places in the points . After he was able to convince as tenth in the qualification for jumping on the normal hill, Larinto clearly missed an illustration of this performance with 26th place. Also from the large hill he finished in a strong seventh place in the qualification, but only ended up in 26th place in the competition. In the meantime, Larinto managed to achieve eleventh place in the mixed team jumping together with Susanna Forsström , Julia Kykkänen and Janne Ahonen . In the subsequent men's jump on the large hill, Larinto jumped to sixth place together with Jarkko Määttä , Antti Aalto and Janne Ahonen.

At the Finnish Summer Ski Jumping Championships 2017 in Lahti, Larinto won the title ahead of Janne Ahonen and Eetu Nousiainen .

Larinto sustained a knee injury (overextension of the cruciate ligament) in official training before the opening competition of the 2017/18 season in Wisła and will be absent for at least six weeks. After the 2017/18 season he ended his career as a ski jumper.

Private

Larinto graduated from Salpausselän lukio in Lahti in 2009 . In the same year he got engaged to Kia Rantalainen.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place Type
1. December 1, 2010 FinlandFinland Kuopio Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No. date place Type
1. November 29, 2008 FinlandFinland Kuusamo Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season space Points
2007/08 82. 002
2008/09 14th 541
2009/10 67. 016
2010/11 20th 342
2012/13 73. 007th
2013/14 65. 027
2014/15 53. 035
2015/16 60. 014th
2016/17 56. 016

Grand Prix placements

season space Points
2007 63. 018th
2008 24. 091
2010 43. 026th
2015 53. 044
2016 73. 004th
2017 54. 026th

Web links

Commons : Ville Larinto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ville Larinto Finnish master. In: berkutschi.com. March 28, 2010, accessed November 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ World Cup Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011-01-01 - Men's HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  3. ↑ Four Hills Tournament: Schmitt missed jumping in Innsbruck. In: Spiegel Online . January 2, 2011, accessed November 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Larinnon Kausi on ohi. In: mtv3.fi. January 2, 2011, accessed November 24, 2017 (Finnish).
  5. ↑ Anna Koch: Ville Larinto's World Cup season in danger after another operation. In: skispringen-news.de. August 2, 2011, accessed November 24, 2017 .
  6. ↑ World Ski Championships 2013 - Men's HS106 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  7. ↑ World Ski Championships 2013 - Men's HS134 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  8. ↑ World Ski Championships 2013 - Men's Team HS134 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  9. ↑ World Ski Championships 2015 - Men's HS100 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  10. ↑ World Ski Championships 2015 - Men's HS134 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  11. ↑ World Ski Championships 2017 - Men's HS100 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  12. ↑ World Ski Championships 2017 - Men's HS134 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  13. ↑ World Ski Championships 2017 - Mixed Team HS100 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 24, 2017
  14. ↑ Ville Larinto becomes Finnish champion in Lahti. In: skispringen.com. November 13, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Ville Larinto: Several weeks of forced break after knee injury. In: skispringen.com. November 22, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Larinto, Ville
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larinto, Ville Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahti , Finland