Ville Simola
Ville Simola 
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 Finland
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| birthday | September 21, 1987 |
| Career | |
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| society | Kymin Koskenpojat |
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2008 |
| Debut in the World Cup | 2008 |
| status | active |
| World Cup balance | |
| last change: October 8, 2011 | |
Ville Simola (born September 21, 1987 ) is a Finnish biathlete .
Ville Simola is a sports soldier and started for Kymin Koskenpojat . He made his international debut at the Biathlon Junior World Championships in 2005 in Kontiolahti, where he was 51st in the individual and 34th in the sprint, improved to 12th in the pursuit race and came in seventh with the relay. A year later he was 43rd of the individual, 32nd of the sprint and pursuit and fifth with the Finnish relay at Presque Isle . Simola ran his third Junior World Championships in 2007 in Martell . In Italy he finished 43rd in the individual, 44th in the sprint, 52nd in the pursuit and 14th in the relay. In the following year he took part in a Junior World Championship in Ruhpolding for the last time and reached places 60 in the individual, 64 in the sprint and six in the relay.
Simola made his debut with the men in 2008 as part of the IBU Cup races in Obertilliach , where he was 21st of an individual and immediately won points. It is also the Finn's best finish in the series to date. Shortly afterwards , the biathlon World Cup debut at races in Hochfilzen . In the individual he was 75th in the sprint 96th and Paavo Puurunen , Marko Juhani Mänttäri and Timo Antila 17 in the relay race first major event in the power range were the Biathlon European Championships 2010 in Otepaa , in which the fin 26 of the function SINGLE was located qualified for the pursuit race as 42nd of the sprint and was 35th in this. With Eppu Väänänen , Matti Hakala and Marko Nieminen he was season 13. In 2010 , two more sprint races followed in the World Cup at Holmenkollen in Oslo and Chanty-Mansiysk. Simola did not finish the first, and the second, with 69th place, was the best result in the World Cup so far. At the European Biathlon Championships in 2011 in Ridanna , he finished 39th in the individual, he did not finish the sprint race and the Finnish relay did not start despite reports.
Between 2006 and 2008, Nieminen also competed several times in lower-class cross-country skiing races of the Scandinavia Cup and in FIS races. He also took part in the 2007 Military World Ski Championships in Haanja , where he was 54th in the 15-kilometer freestyle.
World Cup statistics
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
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | total |
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| Top 10 | ||||||
| Scoring | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Starts | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Status: after the 2010/2011 season | ||||||
Web links
- Ville Simola in the IBU database (English)
- Ville Simola in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Simola, Ville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1987 |