Juhani Tapio Antero Kärkinen (28 October 1935 – 29 August 2019
) was a
Finnish ski jumper who won a gold medal in the large hill at the 1958 World Ski Championships. He placed eighth in the normal hill at the
1960 Winter Olympics
The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Vall ...
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[ His elder brother ]Kalevi Kalevi may refer to
* Kalevi (mythology), an ancient Finnish and Estonian ruler, known from the Finnish epic Kalevala and Estonian epic Kalevipoeg.
* Kalevi, Estonia
Kalevi is a village in Rapla Parish, Rapla County in northwestern Estonia
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was also an international ski jumper.[
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References
1935 births
2019 deaths
Sportspeople from Kotka
Finnish male ski jumpers
Ski jumpers at the 1960 Winter Olympics
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
20th-century Finnish people
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