Ville Larinto

Ville Andreas Larinto ( born April 11, 1990 in Lahti ) is a Finnish ski jumper. He starts for the club Lahti Hiihtoseura, where he is coached by his father, the former ski jumper Jari Larinto. This was also the approach led the then four- year-old Ville at ski jumping.

Career

His debut in the World Cup he had on December 1, 2007 in Kuusamo, in which he reached the 36th. In Engelberg, he was 48 and 41 in Oberstdorf, he reached his first World Cup as 29 points.

In the Summer Grand Prix in Hinterzarten 26 July 2008 Larinto reached the fifth rank with the Finnish team. His best summer single placement was a sixth place in Liberec.

The World Cup season 2008/ 09 was the first season in which the Finn was set in the A-Team. This season he also took both the Junior World Championships in Štrbské Pleso in part, in which he reached the bronze medal in the individual, and at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, where he joined the in single seventh of the normal and twelfth of large hill was. With the Finnish team he reached sixth place.

Even before the season the Finn had drawn attention to himself when he won the Finnish Championship on the normal hill in Rovaniemi, as he had left Springer as Matti Hautamäki and Harri Olli far behind.

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

His first victory in a World Cup competition took the Finn 29 November 2008 with the team in Kuusamo.

At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season showed Larinto a weaker form than in the previous winter, which meant that he was taken to the Four Hills Tournament in the World Cup team. However, in the Finnish championships on the normal hill on 27 March 2010 in Rovaniemi, he could win the title.

His first World Cup victory in a singles competition won the Finn on December 1, 2010 in Kuopio. When New Year's 2011, he came in first jump to the absolute peak width of 140.5 meters, but fell and suffered a torn ACL, which he turned out for the rest of the season. At this time, Larinto was the overall World Cup among the top fifth In the summer of 2011, Larinto injured only a short time after he started again with the jump training, again at the knee, making further surgery necessary. In the World Cup Larinto returned as part of the team competition at the Salpausselän kisat in March 2012, back in his hometown of Lahti, with him no longer reach top rankings in the short rest of the season. On December 8, 2012, he was able to win in 24th for the first time after his injury World Cup points in Sochi, Russia.

Private

Larinto laid in 2009, graduating from the Salpausselän lukio in Lahti from. In the same year he became engaged to Kia Rantalainen.

Achievements

Individual World Cup victories

World Cup victories with the team

World Cup rankings

Summer Grand Prix rankings

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