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Toni Nieminen
Toni Markus Nieminen (born 31 May 1975) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1991 to 2004, with a brief comeback in 2016. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers from Finland, having won both the World Cup overall title and the Four Hills Tournament in 1992, and three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics. He remains the youngest ever Winter Olympic gold medalist, at 16 years and 261 days. . Retrieved 19 June 2017. Additionally, he is known for being the first male ski jumper to land a jump surpassing , which he achieved in 1994 with a |
Lahti
Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital city Helsinki, south-west of the Heinola town and east of Hämeenlinna, the capital of the region of Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme). It is also situated at the intersection of Highway 4 (between Helsinki and Jyväskylä) and Highway 12 (between Tampere and Kouvola), which are the most significant main roads of Lahti. In English, the Finnish word Lahti literally means ''bay''. Lahti is also dubbed the "Chicago of Finland" due to the early industries of both cities, when they were known as " slaughterhouse cities".Lahti on Suomen Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Longest Ski Jumps
Ski jumping is a winter sport in which athletes compete on distance and style in a jump from a ski jumping hill. The sport has traditionally focused on a combination of style and distance, and it was therefore early seen as unimportant in many milieus to have the longest jump. The International Ski Federation (Fédération Internationale de Ski; FIS) has largely been opposed to the inflation in hill sizes and setting of distance records, and no world records have been set at Olympic, World Championship, Holmenkollen Ski Festival or Four Hills Tournament events, as these have never been among the largest hills in the world. Since 1936, when the first jump beyond was made, all world records in the sport have been made in the discipline of ski flying, an offshoot of ski jumping using larger hills where distance is explicitly emphasised. As of March 2017, the official world record for the longest ski jump is , set by Stefan Kraft at Vikersundbakken in Vikersund, Norway. Two years pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997–98 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 1997–98 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 19th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 8th official World Cup season in ski flying. It began in Lillehammer, Norway on 29 November 1997 and finished in Planica, Slovenia on 22 March 1998. The individual World Cup was won by Primož Peterka and Nations Cup by Japan. Lower competitive circuits this season included the Grand Prix and Continental Cup. Map of world cup hosts All 20 locations which have been hosting world cup events for men this season. Oberstdorf hosted world cup/ski flying world championships event and four hills tournament. ''Four Hills Tournament'' ''Nordic Tournament'' Calendar Men Standings Overall Ski Jumping (JP) Cup Ski Flying Nations Cup Four Hills Tournament Nordic Tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:1997-98 Fis Ski Jumping World Cup World cup World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996–97 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 1996–97 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 18th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 7th official World Cup season in ski flying. It began in Lillehammer, Norway on 30 November 1996 and finished in Planica, Slovenia on 23 March 1997. The individual World Cup was won by Primož Peterka and Nations Cup by Japan. Lower competitive circuits this season included the Grand Prix and Continental Cup. Map of world cup hosts All 17 locations which have been hosting world cup events for men this season. ''Four Hills Tournament'' ''Nordic Tournament'' Calendar Men Men's team Standings Overall Ski Jumping (JP) Cup Ski Flying Nations Cup Four Hills Tournament Nordic Tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:1996-97 Fis Ski Jumping World Cup World cup World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995–96 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 1995–96 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 17th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 6th official World Cup season in ski flying. It began in Lillehammer, Norway on 2 December 1995 and finished in Oslo, Norway on 16 March 1996. The individual World Cup was won by Andreas Goldberger and Nations Cup by Finland. Lower competitive circuits this season included the Grand Prix and Continental Cup. Map of world cup hosts All 21 locations which have been hosting world cup events for men this season. ''Four Hills Tournament'' ''World Cup & Ski Flying World Championships'' Calendar Men Men's team Standings Overall Ski Jumping (JP) Cup Ski Flying Nations Cup Four Hills Tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:1995-96 Fis Ski Jumping World Cup World cup World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994–95 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 1994–95 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 16th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 5th official World Cup season in ski flying. It began in Planica, Slovenia on 10 December 1994 and finished in Oberstdorf, Germany on 25 February 1995. The individual World Cup was won by Andreas Goldberger and Nations Cup by Finland. Lower competitive circuits this season included the Grand Prix and Continental Cup. Map of world cup hosts All 15 locations which have been hosting world cup events for men this season. Events in Predazzo and Courchevel canceled. Oberstdorf hosted ski flying event and four hills tournament. ''Four Hills Tournament'' Calendar Men Men's team Standings Overall Ski Flying Nations Cup Four Hills Tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:1994-95 Fis Ski Jumping World Cup World cup World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or indiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993–94 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 1993–94 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 15th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 4th official World Cup season in ski flying. It began in Planica, Slovenia on 11 December 1993 and finished in Thunder Bay, Canada on 27 March 1994. The individual World Cup was won by Espen Bredesen and Nations Cup by Norway. Lower competitive circuit this season included the Continental Cup. Map of world cup hosts All 14 locations which have been hosting world cup events for men this season. Events in Falun and Oslo cancelled. Planica hosted flying, large and normal hill events. ''Four Hills Tournament'' ''World Cup & Ski Flying World Championships'' ''Bohemia Tournament'' Calendar Men Men's team Standings Overall Ski Flying Nations Cup Four Hills Tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:1993-94 Fis Ski Jumping World Cup World cup World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992–93 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 1992–93 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 14th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 3rd official World Cup season in ski flying. It began in Falun, Sweden on 5 December 1992 and finished in Planica, Slovenia on 28 March 1993. The individual World Cup was won by Andreas Goldberger and Nations Cup by Austria. Lower competitive circuit this season included the Europa/Continental Cup. Map of world cup hosts All 13 locations which have been hosting world cup events for men this season. Events in Vikersund and Harrachov were completely canceled. ''Four Hills Tournament'' Calendar Men Men's team Standings Overall Ski Flying Nations Cup Four Hills Tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:1992-93 Fis Ski Jumping World Cup World cup World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harness Racing
Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, or spider, or chariot occupied by a driver. In Europe, and less frequently in Australia and New Zealand, races with jockeys riding directly on saddled trotters ( in French) are also conducted. Breeds In North America, harness races are restricted to Standardbred horses, although European racehorses may also be French Trotters or Russian Trotters, or have mixed ancestry with lineages from multiple breeds. Orlov Trotters race separately in Russia. The light cold-blooded Coldblood trotters and Finnhorses race separately in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Standardbreds are so named because in the early years of the Standardbred stud book, only horses who could trot or pace a mile in a ''standard'' time (or whose progeny could do so) of no more than 2 minutes, 30 seconds were admitted to the book. The horses have proportionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV3
MTV3 ( fi, MTV Kolme, sv, MTV Tre) is a Finnish commercial television station. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Yle TV1 (from Yle) took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV (literally "Advertisement-TV", i.e. "Commercial TV), due to the channel carrying advertising for revenue. Number 3 was added later, when the channel was allocated the third nationwide television channel and it generally became known as "Channel Three"—Finnish Broadcasting Company’s Yle TV1 and Yle TV2 being the first two—and also to distinguish it from the later MTV Finland, which is a Finnish version of Paramount's MTV channel. From 1957 until 2001, the channel's logo was a stylised owl, changed to an owl's eye after an image renewal in 2001, which was then used until 2013. MTV3 has about 500 employees. It is also known as Maikkari (a slang of word "Mainos-TV"). History Early years Oy Mainos-TV-Reklam Ab, or MTV for short, was founded on 29 April 1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Sports Personality Of The Year
The Finnish Athlete of the Year, Sportspersonality of the Year is chosen annually since 1947 by the national sports journalism, sports journalists. In addition, the best female athlete was nominated each year until 2009. Winners Men Women See also * Finnish Footballer of the Year References {{Reflist Sport in Finland National sportsperson-of-the-year trophies and awards Awards established in 1947 1947 establishments in Finland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-style
The sport of ski jumping has seen the use of numerous different techniques, or "styles", over the course of its more than two-hundred-year history. Depending on how the skis are positioned by an athlete, distances have increased by as much as within the past century. Kongsberger The Kongsberger technique (Norwegian: ''Kongsbergknekk'') was created by Jacob Tullin Thams and Sigmund Ruud in Kongsberg, Norway. Developed after World War I, the technique was characterised by the athlete's upper body being bent at the hip, with arms extended at the front in the manner of a "superhero", and skis held parallel to each other. Sometimes the arms would be waved or 'flapped' around vigorously in a bird-like manner. This technique extended jumping lengths from to over , and was used in ski jumping until being superseded by the Windisch and Däscher techniques in the 1950s.MacArthur, Paul J. (March–April 2011)''Skiing Heritage Journal'' pp. 20–25, at Google Books. International Skiing Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
