In the 1999–2000 season he did not collect a single World Cup point, despite several starts, but in the 2000–2001 season he competed more often and did better. He took a fourteenth place already in December in Kuopio, followed up with a seventeenth place in January in Park City and a fourth place in March in Trondheim. At the 1999 World Ski Championships he finished 46th in the normal hill and 29th in the large hill, and at the 2001 World Ski Championships he finished 18th in the normal hill, 25th in the large hill and tenth in the team competition.