Mauri Uolevi Röppänen (born 19 January 1946 in

Outokumpu Outokumpu Oyj is a group of international companies headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, employing 10,600 employees in more than 30 countries. Outokumpu is the largest producer of stainless steel in Europe and the second largest producer in the A ...

North Karelia North Karelia ( fi, Pohjois-Karjala; sv, Norra Karelen) is a region in eastern Finland. It borders the regions of Kainuu, North Savo, South Savo and South Karelia, as well as Russia's Republic of Karelia. It is the easternmost region of Fin ...

) is a

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...

and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

with the Finnish team."1972 Winter Olympics – Sapporo, Japan – Biathlon"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 25, 2008)

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* 1946 births Living people People from Outokumpu Finnish male biathletes Finnish male sport shooters Olympic biathletes for Finland Olympic shooters for Finland Biathletes at the 1972 Winter Olympics Shooters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in biathlon Biathlon World Championships medalists Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from North Karelia {{Finland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub