Tapio Olavi Sipilä (born November 26, 1958, in

Kiiminki Kiiminki ( sv, Kiminge) was a municipality of Finland. Along with Haukipudas, Oulunsalo and Yli-Ii municipalities it was merged with the city of Oulu on 1 January 2013. Kiiminki municipality was part of the Oulu province in the Northern Ostrobo ...

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), nicknamed Tapsa, is a former

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from

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, who claimed the silver medal in the Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight Division (– 68 kg) at the

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. He won the bronze medal four years later in the same weight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in

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Results

*1980 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd) *1981 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd) *1981 World Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (2nd) *1983 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd) *1983 World Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (1st) *1986 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (6th) *1986 World Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (2nd) *1987 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (3rd) *1988 European Championship — 68.0 kg Greco-Roman (4th)

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* 1958 births Living people People from Kiiminki Olympic wrestlers for Finland Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Finnish male sport wrestlers Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in wrestling World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from North Ostrobothnia 20th-century Finnish people 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-wrestling-bio-stub