Kimmo Yliriesto
Kimmo Yliriesto ( born January 28, 1983 in Rovaniemi ) is a Finnish ski jumper. He lives in Lahti and starts for the local club Lahti Hiihtoseura.
Career
Yliriesto debuted on December 3, 2000 at the competition in Kuopio in the World Cup, where he was ranked 56th in the same season he was on 1 February 2001 in Poland Karpacz Szklarska Junior World Champion with the team, 2000 Strbske Pleso he had the same won Cup Bronze.
His first World Cup points won the Finn on 24 January 2002 at the competition in Hakuba Japan, where he took a tenth place. A few days earlier, on 27 January of the same year, he also won his only World Cup podium when he finished in third place with the Finnish team in Sapporo. His best individual World Cup result is a seventh place, dated February 5, 2005 in Sapporo.
In Sapporo, he was on 16 January 2005, gaining his first victory in ski jumping Continental Cup, which on 18 February 2006, another in the U.S. Iron Mountain, Michigan, followed. In addition, at podium finishes in the Continental Cup, a second and a third place, which he at the race weekend 15-16. December 2001 in Lahti ersprang.
In the season 2001/2002 and in the 2004/2005 season the Finn has also been used over longer distances in the World Cup, mainly jumped and he jumps, however, in the Continental Cup.