Felix Hannelin has traveled a very colorful route for cross -country skier.
Five years ago Felix Hannelin24, had never skied on free skis.
– Towards the end of 2020, I first tried skiing for ten years. Then I have 172 cm Järvinen’s skis and Pertsa monos, Hannelin, 24, laughs.
At the turn of the year 2020-21, he bought the first free -style equipment, encouraged by his then spouse.
– The former father -in -law was trying to attract me to try the right race. Then in football, the dream started to end when the level was not enough.
Hannelin played a winger and a link in the then third diva until he got a crazy idea on his head.
– I decided to try race skiing for fun. The idea was that I would ski exactly one start: 50 kilometers of the Inari Finnish Championships in 2023, Hannelin recalls.
– I had to ski in Janakkala’s Jana ranks when the former father -in -law was chairman of the club’s ski section, he adds.
Chance
Felix Hannelin represents the Vantaa Ski Club. Jussi Saarinen
Coincidentally, it is customary to arrange surprising things.
Hannelin collided with a jog by a long -time background influencer of the Vantaa Ski Club To Eero Hosio.
– He attracted to Vantaa. I went to the club’s test run and it went well. Vantaa head coach Kalmer Tramm Said I would have use.
Hannelin played his ex-app.
-He said he would go to the Vantaa Ski Club and in the spring of 2023 you will be able to ski the Finnish Championship message.
A couple of weeks before the January 2023, Tampere Championships Tramm screamed and urged Hannelin to attend the event.
– It went damn well.
The first -timer was 87/167 in the 15 -kilometer free start. Difference to Finnish champion To Remi Lindholm Accumulated 4.25.0.
– It aroused wishes to Inari, but 50 kilometers were a payment of tuition money when I was a little afraid of the route, the man who ended up in Inari in 100/157 remembers.
Hannelin had been hooked.
– The bad habits were formed, so it was easy to continue the next season.
Sensation
Felix Hannelin advanced in the Taivalkoski Championships in Salomon’s monitors and Fischer skis. The combination of equipment is not very conventional. Jussi Saarinen
Last season, in the 10-kilometer free start of the Äänekoski Championships, Hannelin made a sensation in relation to his training background. He was 45/179 and bent to the Finnish champion Perttu Hyvärinen Only 2.38.2.
The value of the performance is raised by the fact that Hannelin has a pot of shingles during the race.
– Skiing became a way of life. I think that things are important in life to whom it is important.
To Spain
At the beginning of last year, Hannelin’s long -term partnership ended, the employer went bankrupt and Tradenom’s studies were in the package.
– I have always wanted to live abroad for a while.
Hannelin wanted to Spain and put Google in English search words “sweetest cities in Spain”. Granada was the first search.
– Perhaps it went a quarter when I googled if there was a skiing opportunity. I found one Grenadian skier, so I thought I had to have a skiing opportunity there.
In May, Hannelin moved to Andalusia and enjoyed the inland city of southern Spain until last November.
– Great place, I fell in love with it, but Finland is a great country.
Tuft into the pot
Felix Hannelin switched to football in cross -country skiing. Jussi Saarinen
As a shareholder and commercial director, Hannelin is a business analysis company based on artificial intelligence.
In skiing, she is coached by an ex-shooter Marko Mäntt Ähi. There are about 750 workout lessons for this season, with the same number of Lappish singers who have been operating for 14 months Antti Tuisku.
– On Friday, Taivalkoski clicked the best of the season, but the weather ruined the performance. Skiing is a great sport when the year has to wait for the next opportunity.
Hannelin was ranked 80/179 (+3.14.6) in Taivalkoski’s free 10 kilometer departure and Tuisku ranked 170/179 (+7.43,3)
– Let’s go skiing so far when this is still nice, Hannelin says in her slogan.