| Ari-Pekka Nikkola | |
| Birth Date: | 16 May 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Kuopio, Finland |
| Height: | 1.72 m |
| Personalbest: | 183 m (600 ft) Kulm, 9-11 February 1996 |
| Seasons: | 1986–1998 |
| Wins: | 9 |
| Teamwins: | 4 |
| Totalpodiums: | 42 |
| Teampodiums: | 6 |
| Events In Yellow: | 22 |
| Individual Starts: | 192 |
| Team Starts: | 7 |
| Wcoveralls: | 1 (1990) |
| Jptitles: | 1 (1996) |
| Updated: | 10 February 2016 |
Ari-Pekka Nikkola (born 16 May 1969) is a Finnish former ski jumper.
He won two gold medals in the Team large hill competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.[1] His best individual finish was a 15th place in the Individual normal hill at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won seven medals. This included four golds (Team large hill: 1987, 1989, 1995, and 1997), two silver (Individual normal hill: 1989, Team large hill: 1991), and one bronze (Individual normal hill: 1991).
| Season | Overall | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row align=center | 47 | 18 | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 10 | 31 | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 19 | — | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 5 | 30 | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37 | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 5 | 6 | 8 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 12 | 8 | — | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | — | — | — | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 16 | 30 | — | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 8 | 4 | 10 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| scope=row align=center | align=center bgcolor=silver | align=center bgcolor=silver | 5 | N/A | align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37 | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 12 | 6 | — | 22 | 11 | ||||
| scope=row align=center | 29 | 20 | — | 59 | 23 |
| No. | Season | Date | Location | Hill | Size | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 1 | align=center rowspan=2 | 28 February 1987 | Salpausselkä K88 | NH | ||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 2 | 4 March 1987 | Paradiskullen K82 | NH | |||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 3 | align=center rowspan=4 | 10 December 1989 | MacKenzie Intervale K86 | NH | ||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 4 | 4 January 1990 | Bergiselschanze K109 | LH | |||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 5 | 11 February 1990 | Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120 | LH | |||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 6 | 25 March 1990 | Bloudkova velikanka K120 | LH | |||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 7 | 4 January 1991 | Bergiselschanze K109 | LH | |||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 8 | align=center rowspan=2 | 16 December 1995 | Le Mont K95 | NH | ||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 9 | 21 January 1996 | Ōkurayama K115 | LH |