Paavo Lukkariniemi (born April 14, 1941 in
Ylitornio
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) is a
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former
ski jumper
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who competed in the mid-1960s. He won a bronze medal in the individual normal hill at the
1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in
Oslo
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.
Lukkariniemi's lone victory was in the normal hill event at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...
in 1966.
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1941 births
Living people
People from Ylitornio
Finnish male ski jumpers
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
Sportspeople from Lapland (Finland)
20th-century Finnish people
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