Ari-Pekka Nikkola (born May 16, 1969 in Kuopio) is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1986 to 1998. He won two gold medals in the Team large hill competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. His best individual finish was a 15th place in the Individual normal hill at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won seven medals. This included four golds (Team large hill: 1987, 1989, 1995, and 1997), two silver (Individual normal hill: 1989, Team large hill: 1991), and one bronze (Individual normal hill: 1991).
As of 2007, Nikkola is the coach of Jernej Damjan of Slovenia.
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- FIS Newsflash. Edition 114. February 14, 2007.
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1988: Finland ( Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Matti Nykänen, Tuomo Ylipulli, & Jari Puikkonen) * 1992: Finland ( Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Mika Laitinen, Risto Laakkonen, & Toni Nieminen) * 1994: Germany ( Hansjörg Jäkle, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, & Jens Weißflog) * 1998: Japan ( Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Masahiko Harada, & Kazuyoshi Funaki) * 2002: Germany ( Sven Hannawald, Stephan Hocke, Michael Uhrmann, & Martin Schmitt) * 2006: Austria ( Andreas Widhölzl, Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch, & Thomas Morgenstern) * 2010: Austria ( Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Kofler, Thomas Morgenstern, & Gregor Schlierenzauer) |
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1982: Norway ( Johan Sætre, Per Bergerud, Ole Bremseth & Olav Hansson) * 1984: Finland ( Markku Pusenius, Pentti Kokkonen, Jari Puikkonen & Matti Nykänen) * 1985: Finland ( Tuomo Ylipulli, Pentti Kokkonen, Matti Nykänen & Jari Puikkonen) * 1987: Finland ( Matti Nykänen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Tuomo Ylipulli & Pekka Suorsa) * 1989: Finland ( Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen & Risto Laakkonen) * 1991: Austria ( Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori Stefan Horngacher & Andreas Felder) * 1993: Norway ( Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg & Espen Bredesen) * 1995: Finland ( Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen & Ari-Pekka Nikkola) * 1997: Finland ( Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen & Janne Ahonen) * 1999: Germany ( Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma & Martin Schmitt) * 2001: Germany ( Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann, Alexander Herr & Martin Schmitt) * 2003: Finland ( Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi & Matti Hautamäki) * 2005: Austria ( Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern & Martin Höllwarth) * 2007: Austria ( Wolfgang Loitzl, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern) * 2009: Austria ( Wolfgang Loitzl, Martin Koch, Thomas Morgenstern & Gregor Schlierenzauer) * 2011: Austria ( Gregor Schlierenzauer, Martin Koch, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern) |
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Nikkola, Ari-Pekka |
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Ski jumper |
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May 16, 1969 |
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