Finally a big success in World Cup skiing! Finnish ski jumping team to a historically strong result

The Finnish team finished sixth in the mixed team competition of the World Championships in Planica.

The Finnish national ski jumping team finished sixth in the mixed team competition at the World Championships in Planica. This is Finland’s best performance in competition format all the time. The mixed team competition has been in the WC program since the 2013 Val di Fiemme WC.

The performance also eclipsed Finland’s best in Planica on Sunday. In the traditionally successful sport of pair sprint, the Finnish skiers finished sixth at their best Jasmi to Joensuu and Krista Pärmäkoski with force. Joni Mäki and Niilo Moilanen were only in 11th place in the men’s pair sprint.

Finland’s combined team was also sixth in the mixed team competition organized in the sport for the first time at the World Championships. There were only eight teams in the combined team. 15 teams participated in the hill jump.

Now we saw the first big overall success of the Finnish team in World Skiing.

Previously, Finland had been at best ninth in the ski jumping mixed team competition.

– Yes, it feels good. Especially when you saw on the board that we went ahead of Switzerland. The jump was probably among the top three from me here on the normal hill. There have been problems with racing. Now I was able to do a basic good jump, the last person to jump from Finland Niko Kytösaho set the mood.

According to Kytösaho, Finland could not have been given a tougher investment.

– This was the maximum on paper. The goal was eighth place. We got a much better placement. Everyone jumped well, Kytösaho stated.

Sports expert Tommi Nikunen was particularly happy with Finland’s performance Jenny Rautionahon and Julia Kykkänen after performance.

– This is definitely a good result. This indicates that the level of women has risen. Good work has been done there. I hope it continues, Nikunen incensed at Puhe.

Kykkänen qualified from the women’s normal hill race in Planica, but succeeded in the mixed team hill, especially in the second round. He improved 3.5 meters from the opening round.

– Of course, it must be a good feeling when you got two good jumps in the competition. Let’s hope that Suurmäki won’t freeze as badly as Pekkumäki, Kykkänen stated.

In the second round, Kykkänen was sixth best in his jumping group. In the opening round, he was eighth best.

Jenny Rautionaho was the best in her jumping group. Rautionaho fell violently at the World Cup in Willingen at the beginning of February and only nine days ago was allowed to jump from the hill again. Rautionaho was already in a strong mood in the normal mountain race when he was 16. It was Rautionaho’s best adult ranking in the career.

– Now we made it to the second round of the value competition, the right things have been done, Rautionaho said and added that he was very much looking forward to getting to Planica’s suurmaki.

Finland’s fourth representative was Antti Aalto. He also improved his performance in the second round.

– I am very pleased that we are moving to a big hill. I don’t like that little hill that much, said Aalto, who was upset about his own jumping.

Planica, the favorite of the home crowd, was left in third place. Germany was number one before Norway.

Hill jumping continues at the World Championships in Planica on Tuesday with the women’s suurmäki qualification. The race is scheduled for Wednesday.