Risto Mattila
Risto Mattila ( born February 4, 1981 in Kannus ) is a retired Finnish snowboarders.
Career
Mattila, who competes for the snowboard junkie in Sievi, began his international career at age 18 on 27 November 1999 in Ruka at the FIS race on the half-pipe. Three months later, he reached the 14th place in the Snowboard Junior World Championship 2000 in Berchtesgaden in the same discipline. A year later he was able to improve on the seventh place at the snowboard Juniuorenweltmeisterschaft 2001 Hermagor- Egger lake. Then he gave on 16 March 2001 his debut in the Snowboard World Cup and reached on the halfpipe in Ruka immediately took tenth place.
On 19 November 2001 Mattila succeeded in Tignes for third place for the first time a trip up the podium. After this success in the halfpipe he could in Whistler celebrate four weeks later in the Big Air second place his first podium. After another podium place in January in L' Alpe d' Huez and a fourth place finish at the Big Air in Kreischberg Mattila launched at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He reached the victory of Ross Powers on the halfpipe the 16th Place. After the games he started in the World Cup with a good fifth place finish at the Big Air in Sapporo, Japan. End of the season he excelled in Tandådalen again with a third place in the halfpipe before he finished the season in second place in the halfpipe World Cup overall standings. In the Big Air World Cup he was at the end on the 19th Place.
Since Mattila Big Air in Berlin with rank 11 could not convince on 26 October 2002 he started in November for the first time for a competition in the Snowboard European Cup. Competition in the halfpipe in Laax he won this clearly. A week later, he started from the same point in the World Cup and missed fourth at the end just under the podium. On 21 December 2002 he succeeded in Canadian Stoneham in Big Air, his first World Cup victory. Just four weeks later at the Snowboard World Cup 2003 in Kreischberg he won the world title in the same discipline. In the halfpipe, he missed a medal as the seventh significantly. After the World Cup, he managed not to achieve top rankings until end of season in Munich and Arosa. Nevertheless, Mattila could fight for eighth place in the Big Air World Cup.
In September 2003, he stood in the Chilean Valle Nevado in the Halfpipe World Cup on the podium again and repeated the second rank in Tandådalen before import again there in the Big Air victory. On January 23, 2004 Mattila succeeded for the first time a World Cup victory in the halfpipe, he was able to repeat this the next day. Also end of the season in Bardonecchia he stood again at the top of the podium, which in the end also earned him the overall World Cup victory on the halfpipe.
In the 2004/ 05 season, he raced after a 10th place in Saas -Fee with a victory at Big Air in Klagenfurt. In the Snowboard World Championships 2005 in Whistler a defense of the world title in 2003 failed to materialize. In the end, it was enough for Mattila only a fifth place in the Big Air and 17th place in the halfpipe. Just three weeks later, he was able to fight in Bardonecchia back into the world top and reached for a second place a new victory in the halfpipe. During his last World Cup of the season in Turin he won as the Big Air competition, which made him at the end reach the fifth of the Big Air World Cup overall standings.
At season's end Mattila also launched for the first time in Rannen him framework of the TTR World Snowboard Tour. In the case of the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships in March 2005 he won the slopestyle competition. In September 2005 he reached the Freestyle.ch second place in Big Air
At the start of the Olympic World Cup season 2005/ 06 Mattila could again win a World Cup after two rather weak results in Chile in Rotterdam. In the TTR tour he scored two second places at the Nissan X- Trail Jam and the O'Neill SB -Jam before 2006 reached eighth place at the Winter X Games in the halfpipe and 14th in the Big Air. However, he could not maintain constant up to the 2006 Olympic Winter Games which reached to the World Cup and the tour performance level. Also there resubmitted only to rank 10 in the halfpipe. The World Cup season, he finished as his most successful season in first place in the World Cup overall standings. In the TTR tour he could not reach the front until end of season rankings more. Only in August at the Billabong Slopestyle Jam he reached third place podium again.
In the World Cup season 2006/ 07 Mattila started with a third place in Stockholm but had the following competition in Saas -Fee to tie problems on this success. In the Snowboard World Cup 2007 in Arosa, he was in the Big Air at the end of fifth. After the World Cup Mattila from starting up in the World Cup, but only in the TTR Tour. After a 13th place at the Winter X Games 2007 in the halfpipe, he reached for the Nissan X-Trail Nippon Open the ranks 16 and 18 In September 2007, Mattila started for the first time at the FIS World Cup and finished 18th in the New Zealand Cardrona.
At the start of the World Cup season 2007/ 08 Mattila reached his last World Cup podium today in Stockholm. It was also the only World Cup in which he took part in the season. In January 2008, he achieved two second places in the halfpipe and quarterpipe at the O'Neill Evolution. After another rather mixed results, he was at the end of the TTR World Snowboard Tour 2007 /08 in fourth place overall.
In October and November 2008, he started in London and Stockholm again in two World Cup competitions, but reached in the Big Air only the positions 18 and eight. In the Snowboard World Cup 2009 in the Korean province of Gangwon -do, he was on the successes of previous years not able to go and lay at the end only on the 47th place in the Big Air and on the 15th place in the halfpipe. Two weeks later, he was second in slopestyle at the Crans -Montana Champs Open. On 16 February 2009, he missed at the Oakley Arctic Challenge the podium scarce and finished fourth. The TTR season he finished more changeable results in fifth place overall.
In the 2009/10 season, Mattila could neither on the TTR Tour still in the FIS World Cup enforce and usually achieved only mediocre or even rear placements. It was not until the 2010/11 season pass him again better performance. So he stood in February 2011 at the Nescafe CHAMPS Leysin with second place in slopestyle for the first time on the podium again.
After he was injured during training on 21 February 2011, he had to pause for a long time. Only at the end of 2011 he was able to participate in international competitions again. After he won the World Cup qualifiers in Ruka, he landed in competition at the end of the twelfth grade. When TTR Stars of the stage, he finished 25th in February 2012. In March Mattila again started at a FIS race in Ruka and reached in his last international appearance until today the fourth.
Achievements
- 2003 World Champion Big Air Kreischberg
- 2003/ 04 World Cup winner on the half-pipe
- 2005 U.S. Open Slopestyle
- 2005 Best Overall Rider (best rider of the year )
- 2006 European Open Superpipe Champion
- 2007 X - Trail Jam, Straight Jump, Japan