Jay Hakkinen

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Jay Hakkinen (born July 19, 1977) is a professional biathlete, a three time U.S. Olympian, and is from Kasilof, Alaska.

Contents 1 Background 2 Performance in Turin 3 Competition Results 3.1 World Championships Results 3.1.1 2005 World Championships 3.1.2 2004 World Championships 3.1.3 2003 World Championships 3.1.4 2001 World Championships 3.1.5 2000 World Championships 3.1.6 1999 World Championships 3.1.7 1998 World Championships 3.1.8 1997 World Championships 3.2 Olympic Results 3.2.1 Torino, 2006 Winter Games 3.2.2 Salt Lake City, 2002 Winter Games 3.2.3 Nagano, 1998 Winter Games 4 World Cup Standings 4.1 2006 World Cup Standings 4.2 2005 World Cup Standings 4.3 2004 World Cup Standings 4.4 2002 World Cup Standings 4.5 2001 World Cup Standings 4.6 2000 World Cup Standings 4.7 1999 World Cup Standings 4.8 1998 World Cup Standings 5 External links

[edit] Background

At the age of three, Hakkinen learned how to skate. Soon after, he picked up cross-country skiing, where he won the Junior 5km freestyle. He got involved in biathlon when in 1994, he went for a year to a Norwegian town in a student exchange program. His host parents were able to arrange for him to trade with a local biathlon club. Within three years of returning home to Alaska, he was the Junior Champion of biathlon.

[edit] Performance in Turin

In Turin at, the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jay Hakkinen got off to a rough start in what was considered his best event, the 10k sprint, where he missed all of five of his targets, and accidentally skiied six penalty laps. He finished 80th in the event.

However, his stardom came at the Olympic men's 4 X 7.5-kilometer relay, an event in which four team members go around the track twice, and shoot from two positions: prone and standing.

The United States has never been a threat in such an event, however, this suddenly changed with Hakkinen in the first leg.

Hakkinen surprisingly took the lead in the first leg (first laps, first biathlete to go), shocking many fans - and finished ahead by 6.3 seconds ahead of Ricco Gross of Germany.

Eventually, the three other members of the U.S. Biathlon failed to hold the lead for the United States, as they eventually dropped to Ninth, despite Hakkinen's amazing performance. The ninth-place showing is the U.S. best since 1972, when the U.S. Biathlon team finished in sixth.

In the first biathlon event of the games, the 20k individual, Hakkinen finished 10th, with 3 penalty minutes for missed shots. One of his misses was a split bullet that hit the target but did not knock the target down. This cost him what would have been a bronze medal. Hakkinen, did however, have the second fastest ski times behind Bjorndalen in the event.

In the 15k mass start, Hakkinen started towards the back of the pack, and with only one miss throughout the four shooting stages, had an outside shot at a medal but all the strength that required him to get to the front cost him, and he faded during the last ski loop.

[edit] Competition Results

For more information on these competitions, see Biathlon

[edit] World Championships Results

For more information on this subject, see Biathlon World Championships

[edit] 2005 World Championships

• Men's 10km Sprint: 18th

• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: 23rd

• Men's 20km Individual: 69th

[edit] 2004 World Championships

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 18th

• Men's 10km Sprint: 47th

• Men's 20km Individual: 70th

• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: Lapped

[edit] 2003 World Championships

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 17th

• Men's 10km Sprint: 47th

• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: 51st

[edit] 2001 World Championships

• Men's 10km Sprint: 31st

• Men's 20km Individual: 39th

• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: 41st

[edit] 2000 World Championships

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 16th

• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: 30th

• Men's 20km Individual: 31st

• Men's 10km Sprint: 32nd

[edit] 1999 World Championships

• Men's 10km Sprint: 16th

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 18th

• Men's 15km Mass Start: 18th

• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: 24th

• Men's 20km Individual: 48th

[edit] 1998 World Championships

• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: 39th

[edit] 1997 World Championships

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 20th

• Men's 20km Individual: 37th

[edit] Olympic Results

For more information on Olympic Medalists in these events, see List of Olympic medalists in biathlon

[edit] Torino, 2006 Winter Games

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 9th
• Men's 20km Individual: 10th
• Men's 15km Mass Start: 13th
• Men's 10km Sprint: 80th

[edit] Salt Lake City, 2002 Winter Games

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 15th
• Men's 12.5km Pursuit: 13th
• Men's 10km Sprint: 26th
• Men's 20km Individual: 26th

[edit] Nagano, 1998 Winter Games

• Men's 4x7.5km Relay (Team Event): 17th
• Men's 20km Individual: 42nd
• Men's 10km Sprint: 60th

[edit] World Cup Standings

For more information on World Cup winners, see Biathlon World Cup

[edit] 2006 World Cup Standings

• Individual: 20th
• Pursuit: 41st
• Sprint: 60th
• All: 48th

[edit] 2005 World Cup Standings

• Sprint: 18th
• Pursuit: 36th
• Mass Start: 40th
• Individual: 61st
• All: 33rd

[edit] 2004 World Cup Standings

• Individual: 29th
• Sprint: 48th
• All: 53rd

[edit] 2002 World Cup Standings

• Pursuit: 39th
• Individual: 61st
• Sprint: 71st
• All: 57th

[edit] 2001 World Cup Standings

• Sprint: 48th
• All: 61st

[edit] 2000 World Cup Standings

• Sprint: 25th
• Pursuit: 37th
• Individual: 47th
• All: 36th

[edit] 1999 World Cup Standings

• Sprint: 28th
• Pursuit: 51st
• All: 39th

[edit] 1998 World Cup Standings

• Sprint: 65th

• All: 74th

[edit] External links

• NBCOlympics.com - Athletes - Jay Hakkinen
• NBCOlympics.com - Athletes - Jay Hakkinen Bio
• Jay Hakkinen's U.S. Olympic Team bio with photos, wallpapers