Ristomatti HAKOLA

Finland

Cross-Country Skiing

Date of Birth: 15 Apr 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: KANKAANPAA

Birth Country:

Finland

Residence: KAUNIAINEN

Residence Country:

Finland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Cross-Country Skiing	Men's 15km Classic	28
	Men's 4 x 10km Relay FIN Finland	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre	Men's 15km Classic	Finished
	Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre	Men's 4 x 10km Relay	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Men's Sprint, Classical	2018	PyeongChang, KOR
9	Men's Team Sprint, Freestyle	2018	PyeongChang, KOR
40	Men's 50 kilometres Mass Start, Classical	2018	PyeongChang, KOR

World Championship
Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Team Sprint Finals Men	2021	Oberstdorf, GER
4	Rel 4x10 km M Men	2019	Seefeld, AUT
6	Rel 4x10 km M Men	2021	Oberstdorf, GER
6	Teamsprint C Final Men	2019	Seefeld, AUT
6	SP F Final Men	2017	Lathi, FIN
9	SP C Final Men	2015	Falun, SWE
15	SP F Final Men	2019	Seefeld, AUT
16	SP C Final Men	2021	Oberstdorf, GER
29	15 km C Men	2019	Seefeld, AUT
38	50 km C Mst Men	2015	Falun, SWE

World Cup Rankings
Season	Sprint	All	Distance
2021/2022	55	103
2020/2021	32	32	30
2019/2020	26	41	41
2018/2019	20	28	29
2017/2018	5	19	48

Best performances per season in World Cup events from 2018/2019 - Individual events until 15km
Season	SP C	SP F	15 km C Mst	15 km F Mst	15 km C	15 km C Pursuit	15 km F
2021/2022	1 x 21st
2020/2021	1 x 14th		1 x 14th
2019/2020	1 x 7th			1 x 11th	1 x 14th	1 x 15th	1 x 18th
2018/2019	1 x 11th	1 x 13th			1 x 9th		1 x 59th

Best performances per season in World Cup events from 2018/2019 - Individual events longer than 15km
Season	15/15 km C/F	50 km F Pursuit
2020/2021	1 x 26th	1 x 43rd
2019/2020	1 x 21st

Best performances in World Cup races from 2018/2019 - Team events
Season	TSP C	TSP F	4x7.5 km Mst R
2020/2021			1 x 2nd
2019/2020		1 x 3rd	1 x 6th
2018/2019	1 x 3rd

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location
21	SP C	2021/2022	Ruka, FIN

Nickname:

Rise

Hobbies:

Orienteering, ball games, good food, the sauna, and relaxing. (halti.com, 21 Feb 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Finnish Army (Pori Brigade) as Physical Education Officer

Education:

Enrolled in the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland. (Rovaniemi, FIN)

Family:

Father, Tuomo. Mother, Anneli. Brother, Mikko.

Languages spoken:

Finnish, English

Club name:

Jamin Janne (Jami, FIN)

Coach:

Personal: Teemu Pasanen (FIN)

Sporting relatives:

Brother Mikko Hakola (Finnish baseball): Played at the elite level.

Other sports:

Biathlon: Competed at the CISM Championships, IBU Junior World Championships and IBU Open European Biathlon Championships. (Biathlonworld.com)

Debut:

2012 World Cup in Lahti (Sprint - 74th)

Injuries:

Season 2020/21: Back problems that especially impacted his free technique skiing. (Iltalehti.fi, Feb 2021)

National team:

2015

Start:

Played Finnish baseball as a child. Started competing in skiing and biathlon in elementary school, finally switched to cross-country skiing after having difficulties with shooting at the Biathlon Junior World Championships. (Aamulehti.fi, Nov 2018)

Ambition:

The goals for Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games are the gold medal in team sprint, an Olympic medal in distance relay, and top-six in 15km classic race. (Athlete, May 2021)

Memorable:

Winning a silver medal in the sprint relay at the 2021 Oberstdorf World Championships. (Athlete, May 2021)

Ritual:

Eating porridge for breakfast. (Athlete, May 2021)

General Interest

MULTI-TALENTED ATHLETE
Has won Finnish national championship medals in seven different sports: cross-country skiing, biathlon, orienteering, Finnish baseball, biathlon cross running, a military biathlon discipline called assault rifle biathlon, and military pentathlon. (is.fi, Nov 2015)

LAND IN HIS HONOUR
Received a plot of forest from his home town Kankaanpaa in recognition of winning a silver medal at the 2021 World Championships and the city named a newly-built sport park after him. The neighbouring municipality Jami, whose ski club he represents, gave him a plot of land to build a summer cabin in the immediate vicinity of the cross-country ski area. (Facebook, 21 May 2021)

Milestones

In his Olympic Winter Games debut, he had two top-10 finishes at PyeongChang 2018 (sixth in the sprint, ninth in team sprint).

Won his first career World Championships medal in 2021 in Oberstdorf, with silver in the men's sprint relay (with Joni Maki). Member of the relay team that finished fourth in 2019, just 1.8 seconds from the podium.

Has yet to score a World Cup podium finish in the individual sprint despite four fourth places and two team sprint podium finishes. Finished fifth in the season sprint standings in the 2017/18 season.

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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