Ari-Pekka Nikkola

Ari -Pekka Nikkola ( born May 16, 1969 in Kuopio ) is a former Finnish ski jumper and today's ski jumping coach. He started for the club of his birthplace, the Puijon Hiihtoseura.

Career

His first try in the Ski Jumping World Cup he had on December 30, 1985 at the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf. His breakthrough came in the following season. In the Italian Asiago, he was first Junior World Champion, on 28 February 1987, he first won a World Cup competition. Overall, he won nine World Cup events in his career. Only after the End of career Matti Nykänens he could step out of the shadows; in the 1989/90 season he won for the only time and the overall World Cup in the 1995/96 season he was only a close second behind Andreas Goldberger. Among his individual successes also include a silver medal on the normal hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 in Lahti, and a bronze medal at the World Championships in 1991.

The most medals won Nikkola with the Finnish team. 1987, 1989, 1995 and 1997, he was with the team champion, 1991 runner-up. For Olympic Winter Games he won in 1988 in Calgary and 1992 in Albertville with the team the gold medal. After the disappointing verlaufenen 1997/98 season he finished his career. In April 2006, he became coach of the B- squad in Slovenia. In January 2007, he released Vasja Bajc from as coach of the Slovenian - A squad, but was released after the 2007/ 08 season from this position. He is currently part of the coaching staff of the Finnish Ski Association.

Achievements

World Cup wins

World Cup rankings

Summer Grand Prix rankings

Trivia

Singer-songwriters and Christoph Lollo sing in their song " Ari -Pekka Nikkola " about the former ski jumper.

In the Finnish comedy series " Ratkaisijat - the cows ' Studio Julmahuvi is exit-pupil Nikkola sought by the main characters and Dieter Berner. The series is a parody on the German TV crime drama " The Old Man ". The Finnish actors speak it very broken German and subtitled in Finnish, what the series gives a special charm, especially for German speaking viewers. The parody is, inter alia, seen at youtube.com.

Finland Winter Olympic Games Nordic skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics Nordic skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 1996 FIS Grand Prix Ski Jumping Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex Bergiselschanze Gross-Titlis-Schanze Bloudkova Velikanka Le Tremplin Olympique du Mont France The Old Fox Hubert Neuper Armin Kogler Espen Bredesen Martin Schmitt Jakub Janda Thomas Morgenstern Gregor Schlierenzauer Simon Ammann Anders Bardal Kamil Stoch List of Olympic medalists in ski jumping Christof Duffner Dieter Thoma Masahiko Harada Sven Hannawald Stephan Hocke Michael Uhrmann Martin Koch (ski jumper) Wolfgang Loitzl Andreas Wank Marinus Kraus Andreas Wellinger Severin Freund List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Jochen Danneberg Per Bergerud Ole Bremseth Olav Hansson Markku Pusenius Pekka Suorsa Heinz Kuttin Ernst Vettori Stefan Horngacher Jani Soininen Alexander Herr Arttu Lappi Manuel Fettner

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