Eero Anselm Ettala (born 17 October 1984) is a Finnish professional
snowboarder
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ...
. Since 2016, Ettala has also worked as a TV host in Finland.
Career
In 2010 Ettala won the
slopestyle gold medal in X Games XIV. In the
Toyota Big Air Toyota Big Air is a Japanese snowboarding (Straight jump) contest. This contest has been held in the Makomanai Open Stadium, Sapporo, Hokkaido since 1997, and from 2012 at the Sapporo Dome. The organizing office of the event announced on September 3 ...
competition he won 1st place in 2005 and 2009, 2nd place in 2004, 2006, and 2010.
Ettala was one of the snowboarding stars featured in the 2014 film, ''Snowboarding: For me''. He is the focus of a 2016 documentary, ''Ender''.
As a TV host
In 2016 Ettala joined Finnish TV channel MTV as host for show ''Ota rahat ja juokse.'' In 2018 he started to host ''Suomen surkein kuski'' for the same channel.
References
X Games athletes
1984 births
Living people
Finnish male snowboarders
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