Five World Championship medals and 28 World Cup prize ranges. In it, the balance of Finnish Olympic Winter Athletes from 2024-2025.
Based on these two meters, the Finnish team’s starting positions for the Olympic Winter 2025-2026 are much better than four years ago.
Iivo Niskanen was the most successful Finnish athlete of the World Cup with his two wins and two in second.
Jasmi Joensuu and Kerttu Niskanen won the World Cup Parisprint competition in Cogna. Admittedly, the race took place in the traditional skiing, while next year’s Olympic Games are free.
Ilkka Herola celebrated the first World Cup personal race win in Oslo.
Severi Vierelä won the World Cup World Cup. The sport will debut at the Olympics next February.
Tero Seppälä and Suvi Minkkinen celebrate the number of biathlon couple in the Oberhof World Cup. In addition, the duo was third in Pokljuka. The sport is not part of the Olympic program.
When comparing the results now seen to the 2020-2021 season, the pre -Beijing Olympics season, two things should be taken into account.
Four years ago, the international competition was mixed with the corona pandemic, which is why all the best were only present at a few competition events. Second, unlike this winter, Russian athletes were in the race.
Eight years ago, the season before the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Finnish athletes achieved a little better success than it is now.
At the 2018 PyeongChang Games, the Finnish team’s balance was six medals. Four years later, it took even better in Beijing, with as many as eight medals.
In Beijing, the medals came from cross -country skiing and hockey. The same species were also in PyeongChang. In addition Enni Rukajärvi achieved silver in snowboarding.
These three species have been responsible for all Finnish winter olympic medals since 2010. During this period, a total of 24 medals have been accumulated, of which 15 have been brought by cross -country skiing, hockey six and snowboarding three.
According to this winter, the trend may change as Milano and Cortina d’Amppezzo organize a five -ring winter race in February next year.
Iivo Niskanen has achieved two personal Olympic wins and one bronze medal. In Parisprint, he has won Olympic gold and silver.
Krista Pärmäkoski’s (right) prize cabinet has five Olympic medals, two of which are silver and three bronze. Kerttu Niskanen (left) has four Olympic medals, three of which are silver and one bronze.
Snowboarder Enni Rukajärvi achieved Slopestyle Olympic silver 2014 and bronze in 2018.
The Lions celebrated the Olympic gold in 2022.
Female lions celebrated the Olympic bronze medal 2010, 2018 and 2022.
With a new sport of success
– A neatly neat situation.
Sports Freesic Specialist Juho Kilk There is a reason for satisfaction – for three reasons.
The top is the Freestyle World Championships in Switzerland last weekend. There were two Freesk Big Air Medals in Finland, which they responded Elias Syrjä and Anni Kärävä.
Elias Syrjä (left) ventilated World Championship silver.
Anni Kärävä (right) smiled as a bronze medalist.
-Of course, it must be remembered that three hard women were missing from the World Cup (China Eileen GuFrench Tess ledux and Estonian Kelly Syldaru). In addition Mathilde Gremaud (Switzerland) Exceptionally failed in Big Air. Ann had a particularly good place to hit, and as a good competitor she used her seam, Kilkki says.
Freeski belongs to a family of freestyle skiing. It also includes a hill invoice where Finns grab Olympic medals at the turn of the millennium and at the beginning.
Freeski has only been part of the Olympic family since 2014.
Another warrior warming thing is the success of the World Cup. This season, Kärävä reached the Big Air World Cup three times for the podium. Syrjä was also ranked three times in the top five before his World Championship silver. In addition to the two Kuura Koivisto placed once in the top six in Big Air.
The result also came in slopestyle, where Kärävänu dropped three times in the top six.
– When the third factor is included Jon Sallinen Possible return to the top, Finland for the first time, has potential success in every freerk sport, Kilkki says.
Sallinen was seriously injured in the United States in March 2024 and has not competed this season. Prior to his injury, he won one race in the World Cup in just over a year and rises to the podium twice.
– I wouldn’t say it would be disappointing if the Olympics did not become a medal. However, freescles are insanely sensitive as a form of competition, and judging is truly subjective.
Ice dance potential
The above quote can also be connected to figure skating, which has returned to a potential medal for the Finnish team.
Ice dancers Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis In February, they were scarcely out of the European Championship medals in February, but in last week’s World Cup, the couple’s success dreams of a couple of successes in the rhythm dance. However, thanks to their successful free dance, the couple rose from 20 to 11th place.
The record points for Turkkila and Versluis are 205.69. In the World Cup, the medal came off with a score of 207.11.
-The World Cup did not see completely clean performances. As a result, for example, bronze points were lower than expected. At the Olympics, the medal requires more than 210 points, Sports Report and Sports Specialist Sara Honkavaara says.
According to Honkavaara, the biggest development of the first couple in Finland is the technical elements. Of these, he specifically mentions the steps that bring the most points.
Honkavaara points out that when assessing the possibilities of Finns, the rights of competitors must be taken into account. In the World Cup, athletes can represent the country where they practice and live. At the Olympics, athletes must be citizens of the country they represent.
– France has flashed a couple, among other things Laurence Fournier Beaudry–Guillaume CizeronHonkavaara says.
Cizeron and Beaudry can participate in the Olympics if the Canadian -born Beaudry receives French citizenship.
– It should also be noted that Russia will get a couple of Olympics. The Russian level is so high that it automatically comes to the top, Honkavaara says.
-If you go to the Olympics with the same group as now in the World Cup, Turkkila-Versluis is currently 5-10. If their development continues as in recent years, they are in the Olympics really good position, says Honkavaara.
The last time the Finnish couple has been caught in the Olympic medal of the Ice Dance in the 1990s. In 1992 Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko They finished sixth at the Albertville Games and fourth in Lillehammer two years later.