Matti Hautamäki

Medal record
Matti Hautamäki
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Silver	2002 Salt Lake City	Team large hill
Silver	2006 Turin	Individual normal hill
Silver	2006 Turin	Team large hill
Bronze	2002 Salt Lake City	Individual large hill
World Championships
Gold	2003 Val di Fiemme	Team large hill
Silver	2001 Lahti	Team normal hill
Silver	2003 Val di Fiemme	Individual large hill
Silver	2005 Oberstdorf	Team large hill
Men's ski flying
World Championships
Silver	2004 Planica	Team
Silver	2006 Bad Mitterndorf	Team
Silver	2008 Oberstdorf	Team
Bronze	2002 Harrachov	Individual
Bronze	2010 Planica	Team

Matti Antero Hautamäki (born July 14, 1981 in Oulu) is a Finnish ski jumper.

Biography

Matti made his first ski-jumping attempts at the age of seven near his home town of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and his friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti followed them. At first it was quite difficult to be independent at the age of 16, but he got 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 quickly helped him advance. In the same year Matti had his first real successes and won medals at 1997 and 1999 Junior World Cups.

Successes to date

At the Four Hills Tournament in 2001–02 Hautamäki finished second, and in 2005 he won the Nordic Tournament for the second time after 2002, with four back-to-back victories. In the 2004–05 season he won six jumps in a row (including the pre-Olympic rehearsal in Pragelato, the four Nordic Tournament jumps, and the first jump in Planica) and thus matched the record for the most consecutive victories. (Janne Ahonen had six consecutive victories in the same season.) His jumps have been judged with the maximum score of 20 multiple times, and he is considered the best ski flier. From 2003 to 2005 he maintained the world record in ski flying of 231 meters. In March 2005 in Planica he even reached 235.5 m, but lost the world record in the same competition to Bjørn Einar Romøren, who achieved 239 m.

Medals

Ski jumping World Cup

• 16 victories in competition
• 2005 ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival.
• became the only one who won all four competitions of the Nordic Tournament (Lahti, Kuopio, Lillehammer and Oslo) in the 2004/2005 season
• holds the record of 6 consecutive wins in 2004/2005 season together with Janne Ahonen and Austrians Thomas Morgenstern (in 2007/2008 season) and Gregor Schlierenzauer (in 2008/2009 season)

References

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

This article includes material translated from the German and French Wikipedias.

Persondata
Name	Hautamäki, Matti Antero
Alternative names
Short description	Finnish ski jumper
Date of birth	1981-07-14
Place of birth	Oulu
Date of death
Place of death