Pekka Korpi (born 11 November 1949 in

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) is a

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trainer and driver. With more than 5 000 wins he is one of the most successful harness drivers in

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. Since 2011 Korpi has been training and driving mostly in Sweden. During the 1980s he also worked several years in the

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and in Belgium. Pekka Korpi's son

Janne Korpi Janne Korpi (born in Vihti on 5 February 1986) is a Finnish snowboarder and harness racing driver. He is a three-time Olympian representing Finland in Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics, the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2018 Winter Olympic ...

is an olympic snowboarder.

Sources

Pekka Korpi at Finnish National Horse Breeding Association's pages
(In Finnish)

External links

Star Racing – Pekka Korpi's homepage
(In Finnish) Sportspeople from Oulu 1949 births Living people Finnish harness racers {{Finland-sport-bio-stub