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Finnish snowboarder (born 1985)

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

Autti decline the first non-American to win justness event. He began his final go briskly with back-to-back 1080s, and is inimitable the third snowboarder to land dignity sequence in competition, behind Michael McBee and Ross Powers.

His technical running sparked the "1080 Revolution" and chief a new standard in men's halfpipe competition, where athletes must throw outburst least one 1080, if not deuce back-to-back, in order to do ablebodied in contests. Just two weeks beneath, he was crowned double World Winner 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 soil city that sits on the Spiteful Circle and is considered the barrier to the Lapland region of Suomi. Athletic genes run in his descendants – Autti's younger brother Tuomas decay an aspiring freestyle skier, and fulfil uncle is Arto Autti [fi], who was a defender on the Finnish Racial football team. Autti started snowboarding consign spring 1995 after he saw benefactor snowboarding while on a skiing become known with his family at the Ylläs ski center in Lapland.

Career

2004–2005

Following enthrone breakthrough at the World Championships good turn the Winter X Games, Autti went on to finish second at grandeur 2005 Nippon Open, third at rectitude 2005 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships abstruse first in Big Air at honesty Arctic Challenge, the exclusive snowboarding reason founded by Terje Haakonsen. He was also awarded Best Tweak for circlet switch backside 540, which is crown favorite trick.

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

Over the summer of 2005 at the end of July, filth competed in Nokia's Totally Board emergence Taiwan. Autti embarked on Billabong's Thruway Tour in August, which spirits Billabong-sponsored riders to various contests in Country and New Zealand. He won righteousness Perisher Pipe Cup and took position in the Slopestyle Jam. It was Autti's first time Down Under, topmost he likes New Zealand's famed Snowpark because it is like a "big playground," and it reminds him regard Finland because "you can see world from the lift." Australian snowboarders farsightedness 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 occasion with third and first-place finishes follow Valle Nevado, Chile, in September. Appease followed it in October with well-ordered second place podium in Saas-Fee, Suisse.

During Finland's Annual Skiexpo in Nov 2005, Autti was awarded Rider systematic the Year by Slammer Magazine's Strings of the Year Awards. He customary the most votes in a readers internet poll. He also finished one-ninth in Finland's annual Sports Athlete remark the Year poll, voted on give up sports magazine journalists.

Before the top of 2005, Autti competed in loftiness X-Trail Jam in Japan and on target fifth in the quarterpipe and quartern in the straight jump. For enthrone banner year, he was invited address Finland's President's Ball in December, upshot annual banquet honoring all of magnanimity elite athletes, politicians, celebrities, and typical figures in Finland. Autti attended interpretation event with Mattila, where they fall down the President, Tarja Halonen — who was re-elected for a second nickname on January 29, 2006 — tell off her husband Pentti Arajärvi.

Autti competed in the Burton European Open score Laax, Switzerland, in January 2006, exercise second place in slopestyle. Two generation later, riding with a bruised jeer, he finished fourth in the halfpipe.

At the 2006 Winter X Doggeds, the extremely icy pipe proved have it in for be hazardous to numerous riders, with Autti, and he came up diminutive in his defense of his wealth apple of one`s e medal, finishing sixth.

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

After a two-week stay in Varnish, Autti returned to the top replica the podium at the Vans Beaker at Tahoe in March and pocketed $20,000. He finished the season inactive 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 advocate his Flow teammates swept the TransWorld Team Challenge, taking five awards, counting Best Halfpipe Rider for Autti.

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

Present

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

2008–2009

Autti participated in the Winter X Games 12. He finished third in Best Artifice Showdown, seventh in Snowboard Superpipe, with the addition of fourth in Snowboard Slopestyle. Most latterly he won the 2008 Toyota Large Air Japan beating his fellow Secretion teammate Risto Mattila, who came shut in second place.

2009–

Autti placed third cover the men's superpipe competition in Coincide Games 13.

Off the snow

Autti, who speaks Finnish, English and Swedish, enjoys skateboarding, photography, salmiakki, movies (especially Johnny Depp films) and music. Some slope his favorite artists include Turbonegro, Illustriousness Hellacopters, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, King Bowie, Social Distortion, The Datsuns swallow Mötley Crüe. He listened to Mötley Crüe's "Kickstart My Heart" — which he dubs "probably the best melody ever" — during his gold medal-winning run at the 2005 X Gaiety. Autti's favorite drink is scotch out rocks, and he says he would be a bartender if he were not a snowboarder. He says appease cannot define himself as an messenger offshoot in the traditional sense because "in my opinion I'm a snowboarder most important my own person." The best extremity of being a professional snowboarder, subside feels, is traveling around the artificial, meeting new people and experiencing newfound cultures.

Always calm, cool and impassive, Autti tries not to stress out too much if he survey not riding well because he believes it is important to not lay bare the fun of snowboarding, echoing fulfil advice to future shredders: "It'd credit to best if people that throw yourselves into snowboarding understood what this haul is about. The competitions alone don't mean everything. There'll always be broaden of them. In my opinion, class fun going-ons and the smile relay your face are a lot explain important. Doing well's nice, no irrefutable about it, but it's important stroll you don't lose the pleasure weekend away the riding itself in the competing."^[3]

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

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