Jukka Ylipulli (born 6 February 1963 in

Rovaniemi Rovaniemi ( , ; sme, Roavvenjárga ; smn, Ruávinjargâ; sms, Ruäʹvnjargg) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland, and its southern part Per� ...

) is a

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former

nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first ever 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympic ...

skier who competed during the 1980s and early 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the individual Nordic combined at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

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. Ylipulli also has two

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a biennial nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The World Championships was started in 1925 for men and opened for women's participation in 1954. World Championship e ...

medals both in the team event, a silver in 1984 and a bronze in 1985. He is the brother of ski jumpers

Tuomo Ylipulli Tuomo Sakari Ylipulli (3 March 1965 – 23 July 2021) was a Finnish ski jumper. Career Tuomo Ylipulli won a gold medal in the Team large hill competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. His biggest successes were in the Team large hill ...

and

Raimo Ylipulli Raimo Ylipulli (born 13 June 1970, in Rovaniemi) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1986 to 1994. He won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme and finished 20th in t ...

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* * 1963 births Living people People from Rovaniemi Finnish male Nordic combined skiers Nordic combined skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic Nordic combined skiers of Finland Olympic medalists in Nordic combined FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Sportspeople from Lapland (Finland) 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-skijumping-bio-stub