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Finnish ski jumper

Matti Antero Hautamäki (; born 14 July 1981) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1997 to 2012. He is one of Finland's most successful ski jumpers, having won sixteen individual World Cup competitions; multiple medals at the Winter Olympics, Ski Jumping World Championships and Ski Flying World Championships; the Nordic Tournament twice; and four ski flying world records.

Hautamäki started ski jumping at the age of seven near his hometown of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti joined them. At first he found it difficult to be independent at the age of sixteen, but he received much help and support from his brother, with whom he was living at the time. The help of his new coach Pekka Niemelä, whom he met at the sports school in Kuopio, also helped him advance quickly. In the same year Matti had his first real successes and won medals at the 1997 and 1999 FIS Junior World Ski Jumping Championships. At the Four Hills Tournament in 2001/02, Hautamäki finished second, his highest ever place in that tournament. In 2002 and 2005 he won the Nordic Tournament, with a clean sweep of all four events in the latter. It was during the 2004–05 season that he won six individual events in a row, including the pre Winter Olympics rehearsal in Pragelato, and the first ski flying event in Planica; this matched the record for the most consecutive victories set by countryman Janne Ahonen in the same season. Hautamäki also won the ski jumping event at the 2005 Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Oslo.

Hautamäki was regarded as a specialist at ski flying, with the majority of his personal best distances being achieved in Planica. An early sign of things to come was showcased on 23 March 2002 when he jumped 224.5 metres, nearly equalling the then world record of 225 m set two years prior by Andreas Goldberger. At the 20–23 March 2003 event, Hautamäki set three consecutive world records of , , and ; the latter making him the first to ever officially land a jump over 230 m. His record stood until 20 March 2005, a day on which it was equalled once by Tommy Ingebrigtsen and later broken a further three times in spectacular fashion: Bjørn Einar Romøren first jumped during the morning training round, followed by Hautamäki momentarily reclaiming the record with in the afternoon event. This was then shattered again by Romøren only minutes later, who jumped Some minutes after that, Janne Ahonen jumped , but this was rendered invalid due to him falling hard upon landing.

No. Season Date Location Hill Size1 2000/01 2 December 2000   Kuopio Puijo K120 (night) LH (Large hill)2 2001/02 19 January 2002   Zakopane Wielka Krokiew K116 LH3 13 March 2002   Falun Lugnet K115 (night) LH4 15 March 2002   Trondheim Granåsen K120 (night) LH5 2002/03 22 March 2003   Planica Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185 FH (Flying hill)6 23 March 2003   Planica Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185 FH7 2003/04 28 November 2003   Kuusamo Rukatunturi K120 (night) LH8 23 January 2004   Hakuba Hakuba K120 (night) LH9 2004/05 11 February 2005   Pragelato Stadio del Trampolino HS140 LH10 6 March 2005   Lahti Salpausselkä HS130 LH11 9 March 2005   Kuopio Puijo HS127 (night) LH12 11 March 2005   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS138 (night) LH13 13 March 2005   Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS128 LH14 19 March 2005   Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215 FH15 2005/06 28 January 2006   Zakopane Wielka Krokiew HS134 (night) LH16 29 January 2006   Zakopane Wielka Krokiew HS134 LH

DateHillLocationMetresFeet20 March 2003   Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185 Planica, Slovenia227.574622 March 2003   Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185 Planica, Slovenia228.575023 March 2003   Velikanka bratov Gorišek K185 Planica, Slovenia23175820 March 2005   Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215 Planica, Slovenia235.5773