Julia Kykkänen
Julia Kykkänen (* April 17, 1994 in Lahti ) is a Finnish ski jumper.
Career
Kykkänen, which began as a child with ski jumping and starts today for the club Lahti Hiihtoseura, jump since 2007 in Ski Jumping Continental Cup.
Your first jump, she completed on 12 August 2007 in Bishop Green. She finished jumping on the 46th place. On 11 December 2007 she was able to achieve COC points 27th place on the normal hill in Notodden first time. A day later they even reached the 17th place. In Zao she was also 17 were her two best Continental Cup standings this season. In the overall standings with 42 points, she took the 43rd place. At the Junior World Championships 2008 in Zakopane she reached the 32nd place on the normal hill.
In the 2008 /09 season were their best results two 18th places in Sapporo. At the Junior World Championship 2009 in Štrbské Pleso it was on the normal hill 22 Kykkänen took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, making it the first and only ski jumper from Finland, who participated in international championships. She reached despite her only 14 years when jumping from the normal hill a 26th place. In the end they finished with 71 points the 41st place of the COC overall ranking.
In the 2009/10 season Kykkänen jumped for the first time regularly in the Continental Cup. They reached the second pass at about half of the jumping. My best result was a 11th place in Zao. At the Junior World Championships in Hinterzarten, she took the 23rd place. In the COC overall ranking she finished with 86 points to 30th place, what their best finish so far represented.
Kykkänen 2010/11 could regularly reach the second passage and were the best result of the season in Notodden even 6th place for the first time. They also took part in the Junior World Cup in 2011 and finished 17th in Otepaeae The same placement she succeeded at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo. Overall, Kykkänen slightly increased in the overall standings with 171 points, she took the 29th place.
As was held in the 2011/2012 season for the first time a toilet in ski jumping for women ( a Summer Grand Prix there were not ) they could in the summer initially reach the 2nd round regularly. For the winter season opener they finished the COC in Rovaniemi the 6th place - their best result of the season. At the very first World Cup competition for women on December 3, 2011 in Lillehammer, she took the 14th place. The toilet was at the same time her best result of the season and thus to date Kykkänens best ever. At the Junior World Championship 2012 in Erzurum she reached the 8th place. In the WC total score was 80 points with 29
Julia Kykkänen plays alongside their ski jumping career even football with the juniors of FC Reipas. She is the daughter of ski jumping coach Kimmo Kykkänen who looks after in addition to the national ladies and the juniors of Lahti Hiihtoseura.
On February 2, 2014 Kykkänen jumped at the World Cup in the Austrian Hinzenbach for the first time on the podium. Behind Sara Takanashi and Daniela Iraschko Pride was the Finn to third place.
With the Olympic debut of women's ski jumping, she took the only Finnish participant Rank 17