Jorma Kontio

Jorma Kontio in 2012

Erkki Jorma Kontio (born August 7, 1953 in Oulu, Finland) is a Finnish Harness racing driver. With more than 11,000 wins,^[1] he is the most victorious harness driver in Scandinavia.

Kontio started his career in the late 1960s. Since 2000 he has lived in Sweden. Kontio's daughter Anna-Julia Kontio is a successful Finnish equestrian in Show jumping.

Major racing wins[]

Jorma Kontio and Opal Viking in Nice 2008.

• Finnish Trotting Derby: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2009, 2011
• Finnish Trotting Criterium: 1975, 1992, 1993, 2008, 2010
• The Finlandia Race: 1985, 1986, 2007
• Kuninkuusravit: 2015^[2]
• Swedish Trotting Derby: 2008, 2016
• Swedish Trotting Criterium: 2009, 2012, 2015, 2017
• Hugo Åbergs Memorial: 1995
• Åby Stora Pris: 1993, 2001, 2013
• European Trotting Derby: 1992, 2016
• : 2014
• 5-year-old European Championship: 1994, 2017
• Grand critérium de vitesse de la Côte d'Azur: 1995, 2008
• Grand Prix du Sud-Ouest: 1996, 2000
• Critérium Continental: 2004
• Gran Premio Tino Triossi: 2001, 2005
• Gran Premio Orsi Mangelli: 2003
• Gran Premio delle Nazioni: 2008, 2009
• Premio Costa Azurra: 1995, 1999
• Grote Prijs der Giganten: 1985, 1986, 1993
• Graf Kalman Hunyady Memorial: 1998, 2000
• Copenhagen Cup: 1992
• Grosser Preis von Bild Hamburg: 1986, 1995

Sources[]

• Jorma Kontio's homepage (in Swedish and Finnish)

External links[]

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