Janne Ryynänen

Janne Pekka Ryynänen ( born January 1, 1988 in Rovaniemi ) is a Finnish nordic combined.

Career

Ryynänen, who competes for Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura, made ​​his international debut at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2003 in Sollefteå. In team - mass start he reached with the team sixth. In the sprint single he landed on 15th place from March 2003 saw Ryynänen in B- World Cup Nordic Combined. In his first competition in Kuusamo he reached 21 as the points. Also in the 2003/ 04 season, he raced after two poor results in Rovaniemi with a points success in Lillehammer.

After Ryynänen Sprint seventh reached at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2004 Junior in Stryn and ended up with the team in fourth place, he was on 5 March 2004 in the sprint in Lahti his debut in the World Cup Nordic Combined. However, since he remained until the end of the season and at the beginning of the 2004/05 season without a World Cup points, he went back to the B World Cup. In the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2005 in Rovaniemi, he missed again a medal. In individual he reached fifth place. In team - mass start he reached with the team finished seventh. In the sprint, he was again not on rank 15 out.

For the 2005/06 season he returned to the A national team and reached in the first competition in Kuusamo the points. On 17 December 2005, he reached in Ramsau am Dachstein in tenth for the first time a top 10 placement. After another rankings in the World Cup points ranking he received the nomination for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Here, the 18- year old started only in the sprint and reached rank 37 after he was still on rank 29 after the jump. Jaakko Tallus and Hannu Manninen A year later he succeeded at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, together with Anssi Koivuranta, the gold medal in the team competition.

Despite this success Ryynänen started a little later at the Nordic World Ski Championships Junior 2007 in Tarvisio. However, he fell short of expectations and reached rank 60 in the individual with the team in sixth again no medal and finished sixth. In the sprint at the end he Belete Rank 21 In the following World Cups, he landed two exceptions regularly in the points. In the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2008 in Zakopane, he also won his first junior medal and won bronze in singles.

In November 2008, he succeeded in Kuusamo at the beginning of the 2008/ 09 twice a second place and thus his first two podiums. As a result, he could no longer reach that rank first. After a medal -less start at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, he launched the following year to his second Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver. After him succeeded as 26th is not a good result for the single on the normal hill, he surprised the competition with rank 12 on the large hill. With the Finnish team, he finished seventh in the team competition. In August 2010, he started for the first time in the Summer Grand Prix and was third in the individual in Oberstdorf on the podium again.

After invariably reached him from the start of season 2009/10 good ranking in the points, he started at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo. However, he remained again without a medal success. At the start of season 2011/12 he was in Kuusamo on the podium again. The Summer Grand Prix 2012 he finished in all races in the top ten and end up on the ninth overall. The following 2012/13 season began for Ryynänen weak and without much success. Also in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he remained again without a medal. In some of the normal hill, he finished only 29th place before he landed with the team in the team competition only on the eighth. In some of the large hill, he finished 26th place.

Although he still remained in the front row without a single World Cup rankings on, he started in February 2014 at the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi. In his third games Ryynänen reached on the normal hill and 36th on the large hill Rank 40

Achievements

World Cup Stats

The table shows the achieved placings in detail.

• Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
• Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
• Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
• Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline