Ski Jumping

Event	Rank
Ladies' Normal Hill Individual	23

Julia KYKKANEN - Schedule

Schedule
Start Time	My Time	Location	Event	Status
Thu, 8 Feb 16:30	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 1 Jump 1	Finished
Thu, 8 Feb 17:00	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 1 Jump 2	Finished
Thu, 8 Feb 17:42	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 1 Jump 3	Finished
Sat, 10 Feb 16:30	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 2 Jump 1	Finished
Sat, 10 Feb 17:00	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 2 Jump 2	Finished
Sat, 10 Feb 17:30	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 2 Jump 3	Finished
Sun, 11 Feb 20:00	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 3 Jump 1	Finished
Sun, 11 Feb 20:30	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 3 Jump 2	Finished
Sun, 11 Feb 21:30	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Official Training 3 Jump 3	Finished
Mon, 12 Feb 20:35	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Mon, 12 Feb 21:50	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Competition - 1st Round	Finished
Mon, 12 Feb 23:03	-	Alpensia Ski Jumping - Normal	Ladies' Normal Hill Individual Final Round	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Winter Games

Year	Location	NH-Individual
2014	Sochi, RUS	17

World Championships

Year	Location	NH-Individual	NH-Team X
2017	Lahti, FIN	19	11
2015	Falun, SWE	23	10
2013	Val di Fiemme, ITA	10	-
2011	Oslo, NOR	17	-
2009	Liberec, CZE	26	-

World Cup Rankings overview - All rankings from 2014/2015, top three for earlier seasons

Year	Overall
2017/2018	28
2016/2017	20
2015/2016	21
2014/2015	24

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2014/2015

Year	NH-Individual	LH-Individual
2017/2018	1 x 18th	1 x 27th
2016/2017	2 x 7th	2 x 14th
2015/2016	1 x 6th	1 x 28th
2014/2015	1 x 15th	1 x 9th

World Cup - Ten best performances in current season

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
18	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Zao, JPN	183.6
19	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Sapporo, JPN	175.8
22	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Ljubno ob Savinji, SLO	196.5
22	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Lillehammer, NOR	209.1
24	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Sapporo, JPN	181.4
24	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Hinterzarten, GER	187.4
26	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Zao, JPN	159.6
27	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Lillehammer, NOR	199.3
27	2017/2018	Large Hill Individual	Lillehammer, NOR	159.9
31	2017/2018	Normal Hill Individual	Ljubno ob Savinji, SLO	96.2

Legend
NH - Normal Hill, LH - Large Hill, SF - Ski Flying, X - Mixed, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Hobbies

Playing football. (visitlahtimedia.fi, 19 Oct 2016)

Education

Physical Education - Sport Institute of Finland, Vierumaki, FIN

Languages spoken

English, Finnish

Club name

KL SkiJumping Team [Finland]

Coach

Kimmo Kykkanen [national, personal, father], FIN (epressi.com, 02 Dec 2017)

Famous relatives

Her older brothers Jere and Jesse have both competed in ski jumping at international level. Her father Kimmo has coached the Finland women's ski jumping team, and has participated in the sport at national level in Finland. (visitlahtimedia.fi, 19 Oct 2016; fis-ski.com, 08 Feb 2014)

Other sports

She has played football in the Kortteliliiga in Finland. (visitlahtimedia.fi, 19 Oct 2016)

Debut

World Cup Debut - 2011 in Lillehammer, Norway

Injuries

During her career she has suffered a sprain to the medial collateral ligament in her knee and has broken her collarbone five times. (visitlahtimedia.fi, 19 Oct 2016)

Start

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

Reason

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. I just fell in love immediately with the ski jumping, so then I just continued and I knew pretty soon after I started that this is what I wanted to do." (ski-jumping-italy.com, 01 Jan 2013)

Hero

Finnish ski jumpers Harri Olli and Jere Kykkanen [her older brother]. (menaiset.fi, 24 Jul 2012)

Rituals

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

Additional information

General
NATIONAL FIRST
In February 2014 she became the first female ski jumper representing Finland 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)

Social Media

Athlete Profile - Julia KYKKANEN

Events and Medals

Julia KYKKANEN - Schedule

Biographical Information

Legend