Matti Hautamäki

Matti Hautamäki
Hautamäki in 2011
Country	Finland
Full name	Matti Antero Hautamäki
Born	14 July 1981 Oulu, Finland
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)
Personal best	235.5 m (773 ft) Planica, 20 Mar 2005
World Cup career
Seasons	1998–2012
Individual wins	16
Team wins	7
Indiv. podiums	38
Team podiums	24
Yellow bibs	2
Indiv. starts	289
Team starts	37
Nordic titles	2 (2002, 2005)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City Team LH 2006 Turin Individual NH 2006 Turin Team LH 2002 Salt Lake City Individual LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 Val di Fiemme Team LH 2001 Lahti Team NH 2003 Val di Fiemme Individual LH 2005 Oberstdorf Team LH Men's ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2004 Planica Team 2006 Tauplitz Team 2008 Oberstdorf Team 2002 Harrachov Individual 2010 Planica Team
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Matti Antero Hautamäki (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmɑtːɪ ˈɑnʈɛɾɔ ˈhɑwʈɑmækɪ]; born 14 July 1981) is a Finnish former ski jumper. He is one of Finland's most successful ski jumpers, having won sixteen individual World Cup competitions, multiple medals at the World Championships and Winter Olympics, the Nordic Tournament twice, as well as four world record distances set in ski flying. Together with Thomas Morgenstern, Hautamäki currently holds the hill record in Harrachov with a distance of 214.5 metres (704 ft), set on 9 March 2002.

Career

Ski jumping

Hautamäki started ski jumping at the age of seven near his hometown of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti joined them. At first he found it difficult to be independent at the age of sixteen, but he received much help and support from his brother, with whom he was living at the time. The help of his new coach Pekka Niemelä, whom he met at the sports school in Kuopio, also helped him advance quickly. In the same year Matti had his first real successes and won medals at the 1997 and 1999 FIS Junior World Ski Jumping Championships.

At the Four Hills Tournament in 2001/02, Hautamäki finished second, his highest ever place in that tournament. In 2002 and 2005 he won the Nordic Tournament, with a clean sweep of all four events in the latter. It was during the 2004–05 season that he won six individual events in a row, including the pre-Winter Olympics rehearsal in Pragelato, and the first ski flying event in Planica; this matched the record for the most consecutive victories set by countryman Janne Ahonen in the same season. Hautamäki also won the ski jumping event at the 2005 Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Oslo.

Ski flying

Hautamäki was regarded as a specialist at ski flying, with the majority of his personal best distances being achieved in Planica. An early sign of things to come was showcased on 23 March 2002 when he jumped 224.5 metres, nearly equalling the then-world record of 225 m set two years prior by Andreas Goldberger. At the 20–23 March 2003 event, Hautamäki set three consecutive world records of 227.5 m, 228.5 m and 231 m; the latter making him the first to ever officially land a jump over 230 m.^[1] His record stood until 20 March 2005, a day on which it was equalled once by Tommy Ingebrigtsen and later broken a further three times in spectacular fashion: Bjørn Einar Romøren first jumped 234.5 m during the morning training round, followed by Hautamäki momentarily reclaiming the record with 235.5 m in the afternoon event. This was then shattered again by Romøren only minutes later, who jumped 239 m. Some minutes after that, Janne Ahonen jumped 240 m, but this was rendered invalid due to him falling hard upon landing.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	SF	JP	4H	NT
1997/98	39	–	37	44	33
1998/99	101	–	99	–	–
1999/00	17	27	16	15	16
2000/01	6	4	N/A	6	11
2001/02		N/A	N/A
2002/03	8	N/A	N/A	17
2003/04	7	N/A	N/A	23	11
2004/05		N/A	N/A	10
2005/06	11	N/A	N/A	5	11
2006/07	9	N/A	N/A	20	7
2007/08	19	N/A	N/A	13	14
2008/09	12	9	N/A	9	10
2009/10	27	15	N/A	37	22
2010/11	8	10	N/A	7	N/A
2011/12	49	–	N/A	35	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2000/01	2 December 2000	Kuopio	Puijo K120 (night)	LH
2	2001/02	19 January 2002	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew K116	LH
3		13 March 2002	Falun	Lugnet K115 (night)	LH
4		15 March 2002	Trondheim	Granåsen K120 (night)	LH
5	2002/03	22 March 2003	Planica	Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185	FH
6		23 March 2003	Planica	Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185	FH
7	2003/04	28 November 2003	Kuusamo	Rukatunturi K120 (night)	LH
8		23 January 2004	Hakuba	Hakuba K120 (night)	LH
9	2004/05	11 February 2005	Pragelato	Stadio del Trampolino HS140	LH
10		6 March 2005	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130	LH
11		9 March 2005	Kuopio	Puijo HS127 (night)	LH
12		11 March 2005	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS138 (night)	LH
13		13 March 2005	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS128	LH
14		19 March 2005	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215	FH
15	2005/06	28 January 2006	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134 (night)	LH
16		29 January 2006	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134	LH

References

1. "Finn breaks ski jump record". BBC Sport. BBC. 2003-03-23. Retrieved 2015-05-21.

• Official website
• Matti Hautamaeki at the International Ski Federation
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)