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Ville Larinto of Finland earned his first World Cup ski jumping win by edging compatriot Matti Hautamaeki on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Larinto picked up 240.9 points. Hautamaeki scored 240.8. Jumps of 129.5 and 124 meters gave Larinto the tightest of wins. World Cup champion and four-time Olympic gold medalist Simon Ammann of Switzerland was third with 238.3.

Statements of the Top 3:

Ville Larinto (FIN): “It feels amazing. It was a difficult summer for me and had many problems but I worked hard for the winter. I'm a little bit surprised that I'm jumping so well and it gives me a lot of motivation for the next competitions. It’s great that two Finnish guys were the best today. It’s nice that Matti could do so well in his home town.”

Matti Hautamaeki (FIN): “We changed our training before this season. After my last season which was so bad, I was even not sure if I should continue, but when the new coach came and showed me his plans for this season I felt totally motivated again and ready to train at 100%. If I can stay in the Top 10 in next competitions I will be satisfied.”

Simon Ammann (SUI): “I was a bit surprised that I was in the lead after the first jump. This gave me more motivation for the second round. I didn't think that it would be so cold here in the North, so my body needed two days to adjust. I'm extremely happy about the results, but after two such good long jumps, it’s a bit difficult for me to understand that I was "only" third. But that’s how it is with that compensation points.”

Impressions from Kuopio are now online in the Galerie:

World-Cup Kuopio

We also have our new Statistic Service for this Event,

Statistic Kuopio

The third and fourth events of the season will be in Lillehammer, Norway this weekend.

This was the 1st Round:

The swiss 4 Times Olympic Champion Simon Ammann is Leader after the fisrt Round of the second Individual World Cup Competition 2010/11 in Kuopio. He jumped 128,5 metres and leads in Front of the two jumpers from Finnland Ville Larinto (129,5 metres) and Matti Hautamaeki (127 metres).

This was the Qualification:

The Qualification for the second Individual Competition in the Season 2010/11 was won by the Norwegian Anders Bardal who did a jump on 124 metres. Peter Prevc from Slovenis (124,5 metres) and the Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl (123,5 metres) are ranked second and third.

In the Group of the best 11 Athletes of the World Cup Ranking Ville Larinto from Finnland did the best jump - 126 metres, followed by Adam Malysz from Poland (123,5 metres).