Juha Valkama | |
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Huot & Valkama in 2003.
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Finland |
Born |
Turku, Finland |
September 26, 1979
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) |
Former partner | Jessica Huot |
Former coach | Dmitri Kazarlyga, G. Irving, Natalia Linichuk, Gennadi Karponosov |
Former choreographer | Dmitri Kazarlyga |
Skating club | HSK Helsinki |
Retired | 2004 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 114.25 2003 NHK Trophy |
Comp. dance | 23.92 2003 NHK Trophy |
Original dance | 31.32 2003 NHK Trophy |
Free dance | 59.01 2003 NHK Trophy |
Juha S. Valkama (born September 26, 1979 in Turku) is a Finnish former competitive ice dancer. He teamed up with Jessica Huot in 1999. They are the 2002–04 Finnish national champions. Their highest placement at an ISU Championship was 18th at the 2004 Europeans in Budapest, Hungary.
Valkama graduated from high school in Finland and then moved to Delaware in the United States. He later graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With Huot
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Huot