Kari Härkönen star of the moment hit Seefeld previous MM-hiihtoihin in 1985.Kari Härkönen hear of the 1980s, the first half of Finland skiing in first chain. The picture since 1980. AL-archives

– If the Rocks would have been more motivation, he would have won no matter how many medals, said the skier Kari Härkönen the national team-time coach Immo Kuutsa .

Härkönen disappeared ski map very quickly in the 1985 world championship after his.

Kari went on to study. At that time it was customary that on the other were the sports heroes in some suitable job. Kari said, too, that the better to read forester as a work on field nurses, Kuutsa tell.

MM-gold its time Härkönen was only 25 years old.

– So I think I said, like Immo tell, Härkönen, 59, says with a laugh.

I’m from kainuu types of pientilalta, which had a few cows. I saw that it business support. That’s why I think it is important that you obtain a good profession. I had a forestry student places at the university of Helsinki, so I went to the world cup season after the capital.

Härkönen head according to the 1987 Oberstdorf world championships, when the skating style and traditional was separated from my own progress. Success did not come.

Kari was studying for the sake of practicing, about half the previous. The weight had risen to seven pounds, Kuutsa remember.

Kari Härkönen ski still prefer the traditional than free. The picture since 1980. Raimo Iso-Ettala / AL

a Skier trying, according to the Calgary 1988 olympic games, but the selection did not come.

– Since I already had the world cup, the world championships are no longer motivated. Olympics, I had wanted to get, but since the following was a period of four years, I didn’t want to wait, but I moved to a career, Härkönen says.

Partner and two sons in Helsinki resident Härkönen works as a researcher at the natural resource center.

Skiing he is actively monitoring tv and sometimes in Finland, cross-country trails along the way.

I exercise the mind I play bandy. Ski 50-100 miles a year in a traditional style. My hobbies. I have mushroom picking, fishing and hunting – and specifically in that order. Even in nature the movement is my favorite.