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September in Germany, October in Finland, November in Canada, and in France, December in Finland, January ... Kiira's calendar is fully booked up to the end of December A freshman economics and administration student at the University of Tampere, Kiira Korpi, the 2007 Europeans bronze medallist, has returned to her hometown Tampere after an intensive summer training tour in Estonia, and Sweden.
- I have enjoyed the summer training this year really much. I have trained in my home town Tampere, at the Finnish High Performance Training Centre in Kuortane, then in Tartu, Estonia, wherefrom I continued to Luleå, Sweden. All the other venues, except that of Luleå, were familiar to me from my earlier summers. At Tartu, I had Viktor Kudriatsev as coach, and at Luleå the 1994 Olympic Champion Aleksei Urmanov. It was fun to skate with the world's all top figure skaters in Tartu and Luleå.
- I had a short summer break between the training camps in Estonia and Sweden. I went to our summer cottage, visited my grandparents, and saw my friends.
Now, at the beginning of September, Kiira is back in Tampere.
- I'm training 12 hours weekly on the ice and 7-8 hours off the ice which includes speed, power, and endurance training, and ballet lessions. I start having a feeling that I'm in a good physical and mental condition for the tough coming season.
Kiira's competition calendar is fully booked until Christmas. She will launch her season with the 2008 Nebelhorn Trophy in September at Oberstdorf whereafter she will compete at home in the 2008 Finlandia Trophy in Vantaa.
- From Finlandia Trophy I will fly to Canada to compete in the Skate Canada Grand Prix, and then to France to participate in the ISU Grand Prix event in Paris, and then end the year at the Finnish national championships just before Christmas.
- The coming season looks exciting! To have so many top women figure skaters in Finland makes us all fight hard to be in the top three and qualify for the Finnish Figure Skating Team to the 2009 European Championships. Anu Kytölä Member of the EC2009 pressteam Translation, Anna Salmi
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