Kurt Elimä (born 24 August 1939) is a

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former

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who competed internationally from 1963 to 1968. He finished seventh in the individual normal hill event at the

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. Elimä's best career finish international was fourth in an individual normal hill event in

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in 1966. "Kurre" won five Swedish Championships, participated in two Olympics (1964 and 1968) and one world cup. He finished third in the classic Garmisch-Partenkirchen and won the Swiss ski weeks. He was a Swedish champion in 1963–1965, 1967 and 1969 and received

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in 1969.

Biography

Kurt grew up in Korpilombolo, he has 12 siblings and was the second oldest. Kurt is from a family of ski jumpers, with several brothers who have jumped including Lennart Elimä (who won Swedish Champions 1978) is one of those who also competed at a high level, and in the 1960s their father Lorenz Elimä built a jump on a hill in Malmberget. Kurt started with a ski jumping club in

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AIF; he also competed for the second tusk in his career as IFK Kiruna and

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. In Kaif (Koskullskulle AIF), he has also been active after he stopped competing, he has trained ski jumper

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who is the founder of V style that today is the basic style of ski jumping. Kurt currently lives in

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, and has put in as coach of Kaif.

References

External links

* * https://web.archive.org/web/20110823161758/http://olympicairport.drift.senselogic.se/5.aad0b10833d63e5c800018696.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20100522044516/http://www.skidor.com/sv/SvenskaSkidforbundet/Historikochstatistik/Svenskamastare/Backenordiskkombination/ * http://www.nsd.se/arkiv/2006/02/02/Sport/3467161/Backhoppningen-%E4r-d%F6d.aspx (Swedish text) 1939 births Living people People from Pajala Municipality Ski jumpers at the 1964 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Swedish male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Sweden Sportspeople from Norrbotten County {{Sweden-skijumping-bio-stub