Additional Information
Highlights
Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
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World Championships |
10 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013 | Val di Fiemme, ITA | 203.2 |
17 | Normal Hill Individual | 2011 | Oslo, NOR | 176.4 |
World Cup Rankings overview - displays all rankings from 2010/11, top three for earlier seasons |
Season | Overall |
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2013/2014 | 9 |
2012/2013 | 37 |
2011/2012 | 29 |
Best performance per season in World Cup events from 2010/2011 |
Season | NH-Individual | NH-Team |
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2013/2014 | 1 x 3rd | 1 x 11th |
2012/2013 | 1 x 17th | 1 x 10th |
2011/2012 | 1 x 14th | - |
Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
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Ten best World Cup performances in current season |
3 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Hinzenbach, AUT | 234.8 |
6 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Zao, JPN | 107.1 |
7 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Sapporo, JPN | 214.9 |
8 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Hinzenbach, AUT | 208.6 |
10 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Zao, JPN | 94.1 |
10 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Chaikovsky, RUS | 222.4 |
11 | Ladies' Normal Hill Team | 2013/2014 | Lillehammer, NOR | 360.4 |
13 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Chaikovsky, RUS | 201.0 |
13 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Hinterzarten, GER | 203.2 |
19 | Normal Hill Individual | 2013/2014 | Sapporo, JPN | 187.9 |
Junior World Championships |
8 | Normal Hill Individual | 2012 | Erzurum, TUR | 239.5 |
LegendNH-Normal Hill, LH-Large Hill, SF-Ski Flying, DNS-Did not start, DNQ-Did not qualify for main competition, DSQ-Disqualified
- Languages Spoken: English, Finnish
- Sporting Relatives: Her father Kimmo is her coach. (iltasanomat.fi, 22 Feb 2013)
- Coach: Kimmo Kykkasen [national], FIN (iltasanomat.fi, 22 Feb 2013; finnjumping.fi, 22 Dec 2013)
- Injuries: She broke her collarbone at the start of the 2013/14 season. (finnjumping.fi, 22 Dec 2013)
Additional Information
Start of sporting careerShe began ski jumping at age three. (ylex.yle.fi, 27 Mar 2013; ski-jumping-italy.com, 01 Jan 2013)
Reason for taking up this sportShe was encouraged to take up the sport by her brothers, father and grandfather. "Both my brothers were also jumping so I wanted to try as well and I probably just fell in love immediately with the ski jumping so then I just continued and I knew it pretty soon after I started that this is what I wanted to do." (ski-jumping-italy.com, 01 Jan 2013)
AmbitionsTo compete at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. (menaiset.fi, 24 Jul 2012)
HeroFinnish ski jumper Harri Olli and her older brother Jere Kykkanen. (menaiset.fi, 24 Jul 2012)
Superstitions / RitualsShe listens to music before she jumps. (ylex.yle.fi, 27 Mar 2013)
GeneralNATIONAL FIRST
In February 2014 she became the first female Finnish ski jumper to finish on the podium at a World Cup event when she finished third in the normal hill in Hinzenbach, Austria. (neveitalia.it, 02 Feb 2014).
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