There are a lot of statistics about Jukola results at:

http://tulos.kalevanrasti.fi/rvanalyysi/rva_jukola.htm

For each runner on 1171 teams, there is an entire page of statistics. Unfortunately, the stats are all in Finnish.

I have managed to learn what some of the Finnish terms are

Sijoitus = place

ldhtiessd = at the start

lopussa, maalissa = at the end, finish

aika = time

rasti = control

vdli = between

So combinations of 'vdli' and 'aika' are split times (between control times). And combinations of 'vdli' and 'rasti' are describing characteristics between controls.

Ihanneaikaan = the ideal time (which might be the sum of the best split times)

kdrkeen = the lead

ero kdrkeen= time behind the lead

ero omaan tasoon= time behind your own capacity (apparently this means "difference to your own level; meaning they calculated your average performance and then compared every control against that not sure how this is calculated")

pisin hajonta osuudella= the longest forking

lyhyin hajonta osuudella= the shortest forking

-- Michale (meglin@juno.com), June 21, 2000

Answers

Wow.

Is Michale the Finnish Michael? ... and how did you get that translation skill so well honed? ... and can you tell us how to prononouce the words, for those of us who are still in the phonics stage of our lives? :)

-- Fritz (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), June 22, 2000.

Finnish pronunciation is generally straightforward, I think, not that different from Scandinavian stuff (to which it is entirely unrelated) with no worries about strange breezy noises made by letter combinations like skjy-. The one unusual thing is that the letter 'd' is pronounced like the 'a' in the English word "fat".

-- J-J (jjcote@juno.com), June 23, 2000.

The Finnish language itself, is generally not straight forward, unfortunately. More accurately, it is close to impossible.

-- Swampfox (wmikell@earthlink.net), June 23, 2000.