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Arttu Kiramo
* April 15, 1990 Muurame174 cm, 72 kg
Present residence: Muurame
Club: Jyväskylän Freestyleseura
Coach: Pekka Lehtikallio
Event: Moguls
Arttu Kiramo joined the Finnish senior moguls team in 2007. He made his breakthrough in the 2008/09 season, finishing ninth at the World Championships in Inawashiro, Japan, and winning Finnish championship titles in both moguls and dual moguls. In the World Cup Arttu’s best result so far is fourteenth place from Deer Valley in January 2009. Arttu is a high school student, whose favourite summer hobby is football.
Achievements:
2009 WCh moguls 9th, dual moguls 24th.
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Tapio Luusua
* August 4, 1981 Pelkosenniemi185 cm, 83 kg
Present residence: Rovaniemi
Club: Pyhätunturin Slalom-Seura
Coach: Pekka Lehtikallio
Event: Moguls
Tapio Luusua enjoyed great success at World Junior Championship around the turn of the millennium and made a highly promising Olympic debut at the Salt Lake Games in 2002. Bad luck has hampered his later career, however. Knee injury sidelined Tapio in the 2005 season, and in 2006 he missed the Turin Games due to last-minute illness. In 2009 he came back with a vengeance, winning silver in moguls and bronze in dual moguls at the World Championship at Inawashiro, Japan, which earned him early selection for the Olympic Games in Vancouver. Tapio studies economics at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi. His favourite pastime is golf.
Previous Olympic Games:
2002 moguls 5th.
Other achievements:
2000 WJCh moguls gold.
2001 WCh moguls 40th, dual moguls 9th. WJCh moguls silver.
2003 WCh moguls 36 th, dual moguls 7th.
2007 WCh moguls 17th, dual moguls 16th.
2009 WCh moguls silver, dual moguls bronze.
World Cup: 2 wins.
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Mikko Ronkainen
* November 25, 1978 Muurame166 cm, 64 kg
Present residence: Oulu
Club: Jyväskylän Freestyleseura
Coach: Pekka Lehtikallio
Event: Moguls
Olympic silver medallist from Turin 2006, Mikko Ronkainen retired from the moguls circuit in 2007. After two seasons in the sidelines he decided to make a comeback in search of the Olympic title that eluded him by only 0.15 points four years ago. Save for the Olympic
gold, Mikko has won everything the sport of moguls skiing has to offer, including two World Championship titles and the overall World Cup. He injured his knee in his first competition in December, however, and was able to return to the World Cup circuit only in January. Mikko is studying for a degree in marketing at the University of Oulu. He is married, has two children and enjoys fishing, snowmobile driving and golf.
Previous Olympic Games:
2002 moguls 8th.
2006 moguls silver.
Other achievements:
1999 WCh moguls 15th, dual moguls17th.
2001 WCh moguls gold, dual moguls 4th.
2003 WCh moguls gold, dual moguls 9th.
2005 WCh moguls 9th, dual moguls 4th.
World Cup: 8 wins. Overall moguls champion in 2000/01. 2007 WCh moguls 36 th.
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Juha Haukkala
* June 28, 1978 Seinäjoki188 cm, 108 kg
Present residence: Helsinki
Club: Seinäjoen Hiihtoseura
Event: Ski cross
Juha Haukkala will represent Finland in the inaugural Olympic ski cross competition at the Vancouver Games. Unlike many skiers who changed to ski cross from Alpine events only after it achieved Olympic status, Juha is a veteran to his sport, having begun already in 2002. His greatest prize so far is gold medal from the Winter Universiade in Innsbruck 2005. Juha suffered a serious crash in a World Cup competition in Aspen in January 2008 but has made a full recovery. His best World Cup result in the Olympic season is ninth place at Alpe d’Huez in January. In the summertime Juha works as a radiographer.
Achievements:
2005 WCh ski cross 7th.
2007 WCh ski cross 11th.
2009 WCh ski cross 17th.
