Jan Mauritz Boklöv (born 14 April 1966) is a Swedish former
ski jumper
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who won the
1988–89 World Cup season. He also dominated the Swedish national championships during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He is best known for popularising the now-ubiquitous
V-style The sport of ski jumping has seen the use of numerous different techniques, or "styles", over the course of its more than two-hundred-year history. Depending on how the skis are positioned by an athlete, distances have increased by as much as withi ...
in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Kurt Elimä
Kurt Elimä (born 24 August 1939) is a Swedish former ski jumper who competed internationally from 1963 to 1968. He finished seventh in the individual normal hill event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
Elimä's best career finish intern ...
was one of Boklöv's trainers. Boklöv competed in two
Winter Olympics
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, finishing seventh in the team large hill event in
Calgary
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in
1988
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and 47th in the individual normal hill in
Albertville
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in
1992
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. At the
1989 Ski Jumping World Championships in
Lahti
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, he finished fifth in the team large hill and tenth in the individual normal hill events. At the
1990 Ski Flying World Championships in
Vikersund
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, Boklöv finished 27th.
In 1989 he was the recipient of the ''
Jerringpriset'', a prize for the best sports performance of the year by a Swedish athlete, as voted for by the radio audience of Radiosporten.
During the early 2000s he lived in
Luxembourg
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.,
and as of 2016, he is living in
Brussels
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together with his family.
World Cup competition victories
Swedish national champion
*Normal hill (K70): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989
*Large hill (K90): 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
People from Gällivare Municipality
Swedish male ski jumpers
Ski jumpers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Ski jumpers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Olympic ski jumpers of Sweden
Sportspeople from Norrbotten County