Antti Autti
Antti - Matias Antero Autti ( born March 15, 1985 in Rovaniemi ) is a Finnish snowboarder. His uncle is Arto Autti, a former Finnish football players.
Career
On 7 December 2001 Autti made his debut in the Snowboard World Cup. In the halfpipe in the third World Cup he achieved third place. After that, three further podiums. In his first snowboard World Junior Championship in 2002 in Rovaniemi, he went into the half-pipe at the start and was up to seventh place. The 2002/03 season began with fairly good results, with two - third and one second place. In the discipline ratings halfpipe, he finished seventh place in the Big Air and the fifth place. The second Snowboard Junior World Championship 2003 in Prato Nevoso went to last year pretty bad. Because he ended up in 11th place in the halfpipe. In Kreischberg 2003 he won in his first snowboard World Cup 2003 bronze medal in the Big Air In the Finnish Championships 2003 Vuokatti he got the silver medal in the Big Air and Halfpipe Competition.
His first World Cup victory he celebrated in the 2003/04 season in Valle Nevado in the halfpipe and the rest of the season he scored three more victories. In 2004, he was WSF halfpipe world champion and also won the Finnish Championships in the halfpipe. In 2005 he won the X-Games Superpipe. He is the first non-American participants, to have managed this. In his second Snowboard World Championships 2005 in Whistler, Canada Autti won two gold medals. In his first and only Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006, he came in the halfpipe on the fifth.
In the season 2006/ 07 he was only in Stockholm, Sweden in the Big Air at the start and finished tenth. The Snowboard World Cup 2007 in Arosa was pretty neat, because he won the silver medal in the Big Air and was fifth in the halfpipe. In the 2007 /08 season he was only two Wetcupstationen here, finished in fifth place in the Cardrona halfpipe and big air in Rotterdam in the third place. In a FIS Race 2008 in Tahkovuori he went for the first time in snowboard cross at the start and was 21 in the 2008/ 09 season he won in Stockholm in Big Air and Halfpipe in La Molina in the ninth place respectively. A season later he came in all four World Cup stations in the top 10 In the World Cups 2010/11 and 2013/14 he was in each case only one World Cup station at the start. In its fourth Snowboard World Cup 2011 in La Molina, he was tenth in the halfpipe.
Achievements
Olympic games
World cup
- Kreischberg 2003: 3 Big Air, Halfpipe 4
- Whistler 2005: 1st Big Air, Halfpipe 1
- Arosa 2007: 2nd Big Air, Halfpipe 5
- La Molina 2011: 10 Halfpipe
Junior World Championship
- Rovaniemi 2002: 7 halfpipe
- Prato Nevoso 2003: 11 Halfpipe
Finnish Championships
World Cup
- World Cup rankings
European Cup
- World Cup rankings