Vesa Hakala (born 5 December 1968, in
Harjavalta
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) is a
Finnish
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former
ski jumper
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who competed from 1986 to 1994. He won a silver medal in the team large hill at the
1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in
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and finished 12th in the individual normal hill at the 1993 championships.
Hakala's best individual career finish was third in the individual large hill in
Sapporo
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in 1990.
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1968 births
Living people
People from Harjavalta
Finnish male ski jumpers
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
Sportspeople from Satakunta
20th-century Finnish people
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