Kiira Korpi

**alyosha_87** · 1st February 2007, 13:14

da...da..

**Elphax** · 1st February 2007, 13:41

m-a atras numele threadului, nu stiam ce inseamna

ce nume are fata asta ...

**TaciAcolo** · 2nd February 2007, 15:20

cand se mai da cu patinele?

**alyosha_87** · 2nd February 2007, 18:53

la mondiale in martie

**Cneazul** · 8th February 2007, 11:59

uratii succes Kiirei !

**peirsolgirl** · 8th February 2007, 12:31

abia astept mondialele

mult succes kiirei!

**yagudina** · 8th February 2007, 16:27

run kiira, run!!!

**alyosha_87** · 8th February 2007, 20:16

go kiira!

**whisper** · 8th February 2007, 22:23

De acum!?

**flying_dreamz** · 27th February 2007, 01:13

KIIRA KORPI

Real name: Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi
Date of birth: 26.09.1988
Zodiacal sign: Libra
Place of birth: Tampere, Finland
Height: 1,66 m
Weight: 58kg
Coach: Maaret Siromaa and Susanna Haarala
Coreographer: Nelli Petanen
Club: Tapparan FSC

Sorry nu am gasit mai mult.

**whisper** · 27th February 2007, 06:59

Nu ii nimic,multumim pentru informatii.

**Cneazul** · 9th March 2007, 16:34

cine stie sa-i faca mancare d`aia??

Favorite food: traditional meatballs and mashed potatoes
Favourite drink: milk and water
Idol: Figure skater Michelle Kwan and tennis player Jarkko Nieminen
Hobbies: figure skating, snowboarding, dancing, reading
Favourite singer: Alicia Keys and Whitney Houston
Favorite book: Harry Potter
Favourite band: U2 and 3 Doors Down
Best song ever: Sting: Every breath you take
Best movie ever: Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings and Ice Age
Best cartoon: Donald Duck
Favourite colour: White and turquoise (and also blue and red)
The nicest event ever: The Olympic Games in Torino in 2006 and the closing ceremony there
The best thing in the World is: Family, friends and skating is a top three
What I will be when I'm grown up: Hopefully an even better skater
Motto: Believe in your dreams, and they are likely to come true

**Cneazul** · 9th March 2007, 16:42

Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi (born 26 September 1988 in Tampere, Finland) is a figure skater from Finland. She won the bronze medal 2007 European Championships in Warsaw.

She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics where she finished in 16th place. She competed in the World Junior Championships in 2005 and the European Championships in 2006. Although she finished 3rd at Finnish Nationals, her skating federation used the European Championships to determine the final two spots for the Olympics.

Korpi has two coaches: Maaret Siromaa and Susanna Haarala. Her choreographer is Nelli Petänen.
Kiira Korpi's father, Rauno Korpi, coached the Finnish women's hockey team to a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi was born on September 26, 1988 in Tampere, Finland.

With figure skating considered a minor sport in Finland, Korpi could have gone into hockey instead. In fact, she hails from Tampere, a hotbed of hockey action. Her father, Rauno, has won the national hockey championship in Finland with the hometown club, Tappara Tampere, and coached Finland's women's hockey team to a bronze medal in the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. That would make his daughter a prime candidate for a place in the hockey world, but it wasn't for Kiira. "I'm glad I didn't go into hockey," she said. "My older sister was skating and then some of my friends started so I wanted to skate with them." She began when she was five.

Soon she was mastering the art of figure skating, landing her first triple jump, a salchow when she was only 11 or 12. "I like jumping and performing in competitions," she said. By now, she has all the triples up to the lutz, which she considers her favorite. But she hasn't tried a triple axel or a quad. She has landed triple-triple combinations in practice, including triple toe/triple toe and triple salchow/triple toe, but only uses a triple lutz-double toe, a triple loop-double toe, and a triple flip-double toe in her programs. "Maybe I'll have a triple-triple in my program next year if training goes well this summer," she said.

Kiira has trained with Maaret Siromaa and Susanna Haarala for the last seven or eight years. She practices for about two to three hours a day, six days a week in Tampere for most of the year. In June and July, the ice rink is closed so she must travel to another town to skate. Kiira went to Lake Arrowhead in California to train for a few weeks with Anthony Liu and Igor Pashkevitch. She does about six hours a week of off ice training, including ballet and gym work. In the summer, she also adds running, cycling and rollerblading to her schedule.

Nelli Petanen choreographs all of Kiira's programs. "I like to skate to different styles of music," Kiira stated. "I don't want to be all the time classical. I always want to try something new." Kiira selects her music in consultation with her coach and likes to change only one program each year.

Kiira is a good student. "My favorite subjects are languages and biology," she said. She speaks English, Swedish and German in addition to Finnish. "I plan to go to the university, but I have no idea of a career yet," she stated.

When she is not studying or skating, Kiira enjoys going out with friends to the cinema or to cafes and reading all kinds of books. She isn't involved in any other sports except snowboarding. "I tried gymnastics for a few years," she said, "but I preferred skating. I like to snowboard but I can't go as often as I would like." Since she still lives at home, Kiira can keep all the toys she receives from fans on a shelf in her room. She doesn't have any other collections. Kiira also likes to travel. "My favorite place was Rome," she said. "I went there with my family on holiday in the summer. I also enjoyed Iceland when we went for the Nordics. I saw the volcanoes there."