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Julia KYKKAENEN

Finland

Gender: Female
Nationality: Finland

Birthday: 17 April 1994
Age: 20

Height: 1.68 m (5' 6'')
Weight: 55 kg / 121 lbs

Place of Birth: Finland, LAHTI
Place of Residence: -

Ski Jumping

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Athlete competitions and results

11 February, 21:30 Ladies' Normal Hill Individual 1st Round
Julia KYKKAENEN
Total Points: 115.1
Rank: 14

11 February, 22:22 Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Final Round
Julia KYKKAENEN
Total Points: 221.5
Rank: 17

Additional Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
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
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
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
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

Legend
NH-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 career
She began ski jumping at age three. (ylex.yle.fi, 27 Mar 2013; ski-jumping-italy.com, 01 Jan 2013)

Reason for taking up this sport
She 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)

Ambitions
To compete at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. (menaiset.fi, 24 Jul 2012)

Hero
Finnish ski jumper Harri Olli and her older brother Jere Kykkanen. (menaiset.fi, 24 Jul 2012)

Superstitions / Rituals
She listens to music before she jumps. (ylex.yle.fi, 27 Mar 2013)

General
NATIONAL 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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