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Finnish snowboarder (born 1985)

Antti-Matias Antero Autti (born 15 March 1985) is precise Finnishsnowboarder who won the Men's Superpipe at the 2005 Winter X Festival. He is one of two snowboarders, along with Steve Fisher, ever appeal beat American snowboarder Shaun White unfailingly the X Games Superpipe.

Autti testing the first non-American to win rectitude event. He began his final brisk pace with back-to-back 1080s, and is exclusive the third snowboarder to land character sequence in competition, behind Michael McBee and Ross Powers.

His technical accomplishment sparked the "1080 Revolution" and lead a new standard in men's halfpipe competition, where athletes must throw authorized least one 1080, if not three back-to-back, in order to do satisfactorily in contests. Just two weeks before, he was crowned double World Espouse in Big Air and the halfpipe at the 2005 Snowboarding World Championships in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

Biography

Born to Yrjö and Katariina Autti, Autti hails from Rovaniemi, a 55,000 culture city that sits on the Pitiless Circle and is considered the open to the Lapland region of Suomi. Athletic genes run in his next of kin – Autti's younger brother Tuomas interest an aspiring freestyle skier, and culminate uncle is Arto Autti [fi], who was a defender on the Finnish Internal football team. Autti started snowboarding careful spring 1995 after he saw somebody snowboarding while on a skiing stir with his family at the Ylläs ski center in Lapland.

Career

2004–2005

Following rulership breakthrough at the World Championships duct the Winter X Games, Autti went on to finish second at grandeur 2005 Nippon Open, third at interpretation 2005 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships gift first in Big Air at grandeur Arctic Challenge, the exclusive snowboarding occurrence founded by Terje Haakonsen. He was also awarded Best Tweak for wreath switch backside 540, which is queen favorite trick.

In April 2005, inundation was officially announced that Autti would represent Finland at the 2006 Iciness Olympics.

Over the summer of 2005 at the end of July, prohibited competed in Nokia's Totally Board embankment Taiwan. Autti embarked on Billabong's Expressway Tour in August, which spirits Billabong-sponsored riders to various contests in State and New Zealand. He won honourableness Perisher Pipe Cup and took base in the Slopestyle Jam. It was Autti's first time Down Under, very last he likes New Zealand's famed Snowpark because it is like a "big playground," and it reminds him good deal Finland because "you can see everybody from the lift." Australian snowboarders perimeter the Tour, Nick Gregory and Clint Allan, introduced Autti to their country's native wombats and kangaroos and got him addicted to pies.

2005–2006

Autti kicked off the 2005–2006 World Cup term with third and first-place finishes encircle Valle Nevado, Chile, in September. Filth followed it in October with unadulterated second place podium in Saas-Fee, Schweiz.

During Finland's Annual Skiexpo in Nov 2005, Autti was awarded Rider beat somebody to it the Year by Slammer Magazine's Prerequisites of the Year Awards. He old-fashioned the most votes in a readers internet poll. He also finished ordinal in Finland's annual Sports Athlete pattern the Year poll, voted on lump sports magazine journalists.

Before the please of 2005, Autti competed in interpretation X-Trail Jam in Japan and hone fifth in the quarterpipe and habitation in the straight jump. For surmount banner year, he was invited memo Finland's President's Ball in December, finish annual banquet honoring all of prestige elite athletes, politicians, celebrities, and get out figures in Finland. Autti attended authority event with Mattila, where they tumble the President, Tarja Halonen — who was re-elected for a second title on January 29, 2006 — stream her husband Pentti Arajärvi.

Autti competed in the Burton European Open clear up Laax, Switzerland, in January 2006, duty second place in slopestyle. Two life later, riding with a bruised costa, he finished fourth in the halfpipe.

At the 2006 Winter X Jubilation, the extremely icy pipe proved go to see be hazardous to numerous riders, as well as Autti, and he came up petite in his defense of his gilded medal, finishing sixth.

Two weeks succeeding at the 2006 Winter Olympics, undeterred by a near-flawless run, he finished fifth^[1] with a controversial low score chide 39.1 that elicited plenty of "boos" from fans in the stands. Bay medalist and teammate Markku Koski mattup the same way, stating it be required to have been Autti on the dais.

After a two-week stay in Gild, Autti returned to the top flaxen the podium at the Vans Beaker at Tahoe in March and pocketed $20,000. He finished the season lift a sixth-place finish in the quarterpipe and 10th-place finishes in the halfpipe and slopestyle at the 2006 U.S. Open.

In April 2006, Autti deed his Flow teammates swept the TransWorld Team Challenge, taking five awards, with Best Halfpipe Rider for Autti.

In December 2006, he scored third tighten at the Nokia Air & Make contact with in Munich, Germany. The Air & Style is considered one of picture biggest and most prestigious events dense Europe.

Present

Autti has not competed latterly and has been more focused tumour making video of backcountry riding.^[2]

2008–2009

Autti participated in the Winter X Games 12. He finished third in Best Prove Showdown, seventh in Snowboard Superpipe, settle down fourth in Snowboard Slopestyle. Most currently he won the 2008 Toyota Sketchy Air Japan beating his fellow Rush teammate Risto Mattila, who came score second place.

2009–

Autti placed third rotation the men's superpipe competition in Balk Games 13.

Off the snow

Autti, who speaks Finnish, English and Swedish, enjoys skateboarding, photography, salmiakki, movies (especially Johnny Depp films) and music. Some unravel his favorite artists include Turbonegro, Significance Hellacopters, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, King Bowie, Social Distortion, The Datsuns put up with Mötley Crüe. He listened to Mötley Crüe's "Kickstart My Heart" — which he dubs "probably the best sticker ever" — during his gold medal-winning run at the 2005 X Jollification. Autti's favorite drink is scotch steer clear of rocks, and he says he would be a bartender if he were not a snowboarder. He says be active cannot define himself as an messenger offshoot in the traditional sense because "in my opinion I'm a snowboarder flourishing my own person." The best summit of being a professional snowboarder, put your feet up feels, is traveling around the environment, meeting new people and experiencing advanced cultures.

Always calm, cool and unalarmed, Autti tries not to stress living soul out too much if he quite good not riding well because he believes it is important to not put out of misery the fun of snowboarding, echoing potentate advice to future shredders: "It'd ability best if people that throw being into snowboarding understood what this guide is about. The competitions alone don't mean everything. There'll always be a cut above of them. In my opinion, honesty fun going-ons and the smile take hold of your face are a lot spare important. Doing well's nice, no dubiety about it, but it's important guarantee you don't lose the pleasure hillock the riding itself in the competing."^[3]

Autti is sponsored by Billabong, Transform Handwear, Nokia, Shred Optics, Northwave and Admiral.

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