Tero Heiska is not just a manager of the year, but a manager of decades.
Until 2007, Heiska was the principal of Alajärvi Adult High School, but since then she has not returned to the classrooms. The sport finally took with it.
However, interest in management has already begun In the 1990s, when Heiska was asked to sign athletics contracts at the Kuortane Elite Championships.
“Kuortane will be 30th next summer,” Heiska says.
In the summer of 2022, the traditional Midsummer Games will take place at a new level, as Kuortane rose to the Silver level in the International Athletics Federation.
With the level rising, Kuortane Games is Finland’s second most valuable race. The only one above is the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, which is a gold-level competition
The first individual athletes managed by Heiska were the javelin thrower Mikaela Ingeberg and the 2000 Olympic champion in ball-throwing Arsi Harju. In the meantime and later, Heiska manages many other representative athletes in national matches and value competitions.
Year However, 2007 is important for Heiska. His namesake Tero Pitkämäki then won the Javelin World Championship.
Heiska began to handle all of Pitkämäki’s background work: invitations to tender, advertising contracts, media connections and, if necessary, also healthcare, which was enough for the javelin thrower.
“I didn’t know Tero at all before our first meeting in 2004,” Heiska recalls.
Pitkämäki has already moved on to coaching, but 66-year-old Heiska continues to support and help athletes.
Tero Heiska and pole vaulter Wilma Murto planning tactics for Kuortane’s Midsummer Games 2016.
Although There are several athletes in Heiska’s stable, spear throwers are still in a big role. The best known of them is Johannes Vetter, whose competition manager Heiska has been for a year.
Vetter is this year’s best javelin thrower, although he failed at the Tokyo Olympics.
The surface of the Mondo in Tokyo Stadium was made for runners and could not withstand under throwers like Vetter. It was close that Vetter was not badly injured.
After the Olympics, the German won the Diamond League.
“A year ago, I asked me to be my race manager. At first he wandered and curved, asking all sorts of things, but could not say. Then I asked, what are you chasing? There was a great appreciation that he asked for. It was agreed that summer 2021 will be considered, and if he agrees in the autumn, we will continue, ”Heiska says about her contract with Vetter.
Heiska also treats the Trinidadian winner of the 2012 London Spear Olympics Keshorn Walcottin and an Australian female shooter Kelsey-Lee Barberin foreign games. Cooperation with Walcott began as early as 2013 and with Berber in 2014.
Heiska also trained Antti Ruuskanen overseas competitions before pyavetinen ended his career in August. Likewise a long jumper Kristian Pulli will go to the competition with the contracts signed by Heiska.
Heiska also makes individual javelin throwing competition agreements To Oliver Helander and To Toni Kuusela.
Next season, Heiska will also take care of the runners Reetta Hurskeen and Elmo Lakan games. Stick jumper Wilma Murron and the Seven Miia Sillman Heiska has similar washes with Pitkämäki in his time. It includes all things, not just races.
Heiska made her most recent contract 18 years under Christmas Ilona Monosen with. In the summer, Mononen won the European Youth Championship at 3,000 meters
“Ilona is in my opinion Lasse Virénin after Finland’s most talented runner. In a few years, let’s see how the assessment materializes, ”says Heiska.
Virén won four Olympic golds in the endurance race between 1972 and 1976.
A lot of other athletes would be coming, but Heiska is increasingly having to say no. He wants to take care of athletes properly, not with his left hand.
“It’s an annoying situation. There is too little time. I can’t stretch at all and the borders come against me. There have been so many kilometers so far, ”says Heiska.
On athletics fields, Heiska always has a camera around his neck. She is an avid photography enthusiast and enjoys showing the pictures she takes.
Ilona Mononen won the Finnish 1,500m women’s championship in August 2021.
In Seinäjoki Heiska, who lives, is an athletics manager for athletes, but now a wrestler has joined the team Arvi Savolainen.
“I have categorically said to alien species that I am not leaving. It would require careful learning and knowledge of the rules of other species. I promised Arville when I was asked. We had two long sessions with Arvi in the summer, ”says Heiska.
At the athlete meeting, Heiska finds out the person’s backgrounds and motivation. Often the most important thing is intuition: what kind of first impression the athlete makes.
“Intuition matters a lot and it creates perspective. I feel that I am sensitive to things. I like to dare to talk about them directly. If the chemistry doesn’t collide, I urge the athlete to turn to someone else. It’s not the athlete’s fault, it’s my fault. ”
Tero Heiska reads congratulatory messages to Tero Pitkämäki on his mobile phone at the 2005 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg. Pitkämäki won silver in the race with a spear. Next to Pitkämäki is his partner Niina Kelo.
Salary Heiska receives a pre-agreed commission, which is calculated from the fee paid by the race organizer to the athlete.
“There are a lot of variations on the contracts, but for me, the salary is purely a commission. I have never billed anyone for the hours they worked. ”
International Athletics Managers must have a manager’s degree and a $ 30,000 guarantee or insurance covering the same amount. The deposit secures the Athlete’s salary claim if the Manager is insolvent.
Heiska and another international Finnish manager Jukka Härkönen did not have to complete the degree when it became mandatory about ten years ago. Heiska and Härkönen had been doing their job for much longer.
“The degree is very technical and extensive. Not all entrepreneurs have gotten through it at all, ”says Heiska.
With the Finnish Sports Federation’s top sports coaching manager Tuomo Salosella also has a managerial degree.
According to Heiska, there is a need in Finland for skilled international competition managers.
“Härkönen has retired, and Salonen is in a hurry to join the union. A couple of three managers should get more. ”
Tero Heiska at the Diamond League Games in Oslo in June 2014.
Finland on December 15, the Sports Managers Association turns twelve. The association has about 150 members.
Heiska says he appreciates his election as Manager of the Year. When the executive director of the association Jukka Virtanen asked, Heiska thought at first that she would be asked to share the title.
“Although there hasn’t been much on display, this is a big appreciation when it comes to the toughest crowd. Feels good. At the same time, I would like to express my apologies to the athletes whose wishes I have not been able to fulfill along the way. ”
Tero Heiska in his office at home in Seinäjoki.
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