Harri Olli

Juhani Harri Olli ( born January 15, 1985 in Rovaniemi ) is a Finnish ski jumper. He launched until 2011 for the club of his birthplace, the Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura, and since 2012 for Lahti Hiihtoseura.

Career

Harri Olli had his first international appearances in the 2001/2002 season. He made his debut on 15 December 2001 with a 31st place in the Continental Cup in Lahti. In January 2002 he became world champion with the team at the Junior World Cup in Schonach.

On 29 November 2002, the Finn made ​​his debut in the World Cup Ski Jumping at the competition in Kuusamo. Nearly a year later, on 28 November 2003, he took on the same spot with a 25th place his first World Cup points. At the Junior World Championship 2003 in Sweden Sollefteå he was bronze medalist with the team, he finished eleventh in the individual.

From the season 2005/2006 he was regularly used in the World Cup, started in between but also repeatedly in the Continental Cup, where he was able to jump out in the said season three of his four wins this competition category. It was also the season of his first Four Hills Tournament participation, but he could, unlike in the following season, only qualify for two of the four competitions.

In the 2006/2007 season the Finn celebrated his first major success when he was in Sapporo the silver medal in the individual competition on the large hill won at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2007 and was defeated by only 0.2 points the Swiss Simon Ammann. With the team he won the fourth place.

In the Ski Flying World Championships 2008 at the Heini Klopfer ski jump in Oberstdorf, he won the Finnish team the silver medal in the team competition. In the individual competition he came to the sixth place.

For gross misconduct during this event, which also alcohol was involved, he was suspended until the end of the season.

At the Summer Grand Prix 2008 he was the first time start for the Finnish national team. Here he won the jumping in Courchevel and achieve a third place in Pragelato. After this competition but was again suspended after he had previously been noticed again in Einsiedeln.

In consultation with the new head coach Janne Väätäinen Harri Olli trained at home during his suspension in Rovaniemi. In the Finnish Championship 2008, he achieved a third place, which Väätäinen moved to Olli subject to conditions for the start of the season 2008/2009 to nominate.

The season 2008/2009 has been the most successful of the Finns. He took the New Year's competition in Garmisch -Partenkirchen with Rank 3 his first World Cup podium finish in singles. With the team he won the team competition on the large hill in Kuusamo and the ski jump in Oberstdorf. There he won on February 14, 2009, his first individual race in the World Cup, where he with a length of 225.5 meters improved the previous hill record of the Norwegian Roar Ljøkelsøy to eight feet in the first round.

The 2010/2011 season opened the Finn with a gross unsporting conduct. When jumping in Kuusamo, he rose after the failed qualification for jumping the middle finger in the direction of the jury at the ski jump tower, because he was in very bad conditions in his opinion, have to jump. He has been banned from the FIS for a jump. Shortly thereafter, the national coach Pekka Niemelä announced that Harri Olli was excluded until further notice from the Finnish World Cup team. A few days later also ended his long-time personal trainer, Kimmo Kykkänen, cooperation with Olli, because he "could not change the character of the knight as his coach ."

Although he was suspended by the fact he jumped on 27 and 28 December 2010 at the Continental Cup in Engelberg. In the first competition he was disqualified in the second jump he was after a good first jump only Fourteenth. In the competition on 15 and 16 January 2011 in Sapporo, he was allowed to compete in the World Cup team again, but reached only at the first competition to leap into the top 30

After trying to end his career immediately Olli was surprisingly known.

On April 19, 2012, known as surprising that Olli planning a comeback. Thus he train active again and might return in the summer back on the international ski scene. He had won the bronze medal at the Finnish summer championships in September 2012 in Lahti, where he finished in tenth place on the large hill, and with the team of Lahti Hiihotseura in the team competition his first appearance.

End March 2013 announced with Olli, take his comeback attempt again because he wants to start in Sochi at the Olympic Winter Games 2014. A little later it was announced that the ski jumper Matti Nykänen is former Finnish train him. A few months later Olli finished a disappointing 20th place in a national competition in Rovaniemi. On December 21, Olli earned his first competition in over two years in the Continental Cup. When jumping in Lahti but Harri Olli missed the second pass, after he had jumped with 115m on the 36 place.

Achievements

World Cup wins

World Cup victories in team

Hill records

World Cup rankings

Summer Grand Prix victories

Summer Grand Prix rankings

Private

In addition to the sports Harri Olli studied mathematics at the University of Rovaniemi. Since the beginning of 2009 he is engaged to Carolina, with whom he moved to Lahti.

Away from the hill makes the Finn again carefully escapades on what already earned him a reputation in the media of a new Matti Nykänen. After his conspicuous in the Ski Flying World Championships 2008, when he stayed away from the team hotel on the night between the individual and the team competition and on his return in the morning, standing under the influence of alcohol, team manager Janne Marvaila reviled, he was in June 2008, again striking when he was flashed by car in a zone with a speed limit of 80 km / h and 141 km / h and 0.65 milliliters of alcohol. Unlike before, but this was first time any sporting consequences.

Before the start of season 2009/2010 Harri Olli was again conspicuous in connection with alcohol, as there was a palpable confrontation in a bar in Lahti between him and his fiancee.

End of August 2012 Olli was sentenced to a 30-day suspended sentence after he attacked a woman physically. A stir was caused when court date, the occurrence Ollis, of the various people involved confronted with sometimes violent insults.

Beginning in January 2013 Olli was sentenced to a prison sentence of four and a half months for assault and driving under the influence of alcohol, which he also may alternatively be served against a community service of 130 days community service.

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