Mika Kojonkoski ( Fin. Mika Kojonkoski ; born April 19, 1963 , Rauma ) is a Finnish ski jumper and coach.
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| Citizenship |  Finland |
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| Place of Birth | Rauma , Finland |
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| World Cup debut | March 10, 1985 , Oslo |
| First World Cup Podium | - |
| Best position at the end of the season | 50 (1985/86) |
Career
Mika Koyonkoski played in the Finnish national team in the mid-1980s, but did not achieve any special results. The best result for him was 9th place at the stage in Chamonix in 1985 .
After completing his sports career, he studied mathematics at the University of Jyväskylä for two years, but then decided to become a coach and began to study biology and psychology at the same university.
The first team that Koyonkoski led as a coach was the youth team of Finland, in which he worked for several years. In 1997, a Finnish specialist led the national team of Austria. For two years, under his leadership, the Austrians won two bronzes at the Nagano Olympics (in the team tournament and on the normal springboard by the efforts of Andreas Widholzl ), and at the 1999 world home championships they became bronze medalists in the team.
After two years in Austria, Mika returned to Finland and led this national team. At the Finnish home world championship in 2001 and at the Salt Lake City Games, they did not remain without medals, but did not win gold. It was under the leadership of Koyonkoski that Janne Ahonen won her first title of winner of the Four Springboard Tours .
In 2002, the Finnish specialist left the post of coach of his native team and led the Norwegians. In the first year, under the leadership of Koyonkoski, the weakly performing Norwegians won the world championship medal in the team, and Sigurd Petterson and Ruar Lökelsöy made it to the top ten of the World Cup.
In 2004, Petterson, who entered the national team only by decision of the head coach, won the Four Springboard Tour , and two years later Koyonkoski's pupil Lars Bustel became the Olympic champion. Also, the wards of the Finnish coach never returned without medals from the world championships.
After the 2010/2011 season, Mika Koyonkoski resigned as coach of the Norwegian national team, where Austrian Alexander Stöckl became his successor. Koyonkoski returned to Finland, where he became involved in politics. He is a deputy of the Kuopio City Council from the National Coalition .
In February 2015, he was appointed head of the FIS Ski Jumping Technical Committee.
Links
- Mika Koyonkoski - statistics on the FIS website