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Jan Mauritz Boklöv (born 14 April 1966) is a Swedish former
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who won the 1988–89 World Cup season. He also dominated the Swedish national championships during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is best known for popularising the now-ubiquitous V-style in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Kurt Elimä was one of Boklöv's trainers. Boklöv competed in two
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, finishing seventh in the team large hill event in
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in 1988 and 47th in the individual normal hill in
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in
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. At the 1989 Ski Jumping World Championships in
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, he finished fifth in the team large hill and tenth in the individual normal hill events. At the 1990 Ski Flying World Championships in
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, Boklöv finished 27th. In 1989 he was the recipient of the '' Jerringpriset'', a prize for the best sports performance of the year by a Swedish athlete, as voted for by the radio audience of Radiosporten. During the early 2000s he lived in
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., and as of 2016, he is living in
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together with his family.


World Cup competition victories


Swedish national champion

*Normal hill (K70): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 *Large hill (K90): 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boklov, Jan 1966 births Living people People from Gällivare Municipality Swedish male ski jumpers Ski jumpers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic ski jumpers for Sweden Skiers from Norrbotten County 20th-century Swedish sportsmen