Marjo Matikainen-Kallström

Marjo Matikainen-Kallström
Marjo Matikainen-Kallström
nation	Finland
birthday	3rd February 1965 (age 55)
place of birth	Lohja , Finland
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 3 × World Cup medals 3 × 2 × 2 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1984 Sarajevo Season gold 1988 Calgary 5 km classic bronze 1988 Calgary 10 km classic bronze 1988 Calgary Season  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1987 Oberstdorf 5 km classic silver 1987 Oberstdorf 10 km classic gold 1989 Lahti 15 km classic gold 1989 Lahti Season silver 1989 Lahti 10 km freestyle bronze 1989 Lahti 10 km classic bronze 1989 Lahti 30 km freestyle  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1983 Kuopio Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup December 13, 1984  World Cup victories in individual 7 ( details )  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1985/86 , 1986/87 , 1987/88 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 7th 4th 4th

Marjo Tuulevi Matikainen-Kallström (born February 3, 1965 in Lohja ) is a former Finnish cross-country skier . Today she works as a politician.

Sports

At the Junior World Championships in 1983 Matikainen won the gold medal with the Finnish 3x5 kilometer relay. One of her greatest successes was her Olympic victory in the 5 kilometer race in Calgary in 1988. There she also won bronze medals over 10 kilometers and with the Finnish relay. With the relay she won bronze at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984 .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1987 in Oberstdorf , she became world champion over 5 kilometers and vice world champion over 10 kilometers. Both distances were run in the classic style at the time. Two years later in Lahti she became world champion over 15 kilometers in the classic style and in the 4x5 km relay as well as vice world champion over 10 kilometers in free style . She was also able to win two bronze medals: in the race over 10 km in classic style and in the race over 30 km in freestyle.

In the cross-country world cup , Matikainen-Kallström won seven races. In 1986, 1987 and 1988 she won the overall World Cup ranking.

In 1986 she became the Finnish triathlon champion before Joan Guetschow .

successes

winter Olympics

• 1984 in Sarajevo : bronze with the relay
• 1988 in Calgary : gold over 5 km, bronze over 10 km, bronze with the relay

World championships

• 1987 in Oberstdorf : Gold over 5 km, silver over 10 km
• 1989 in Lahti : Gold over 15 km, gold with the relay, silver over 10 km freestyle, bronze over 10 km classic, bronze over 30 km

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	7th December 1985	Labrador City	5 km freestyle
2.	March 2, 1986	Lahti	5 km classic
3.	February 16, 1987	Oberstdorf	5 km classic 1
4th	February 28, 1987	Lahti	5 km freestyle
5.	March 15, 1987	Kavgolovo	10 km classic
6th	17th February 1988	Calgary	5 km classic 2
7th	March 17, 1988	Oslo	30 km classic

¹ Nordic World Ski Championships 1987

² 1988 Winter Olympics

World Cup overall placements

season	space	Points
1984/85	36.	16
1985/86	1.	107
1986/87	1.	127
1987/88	1.	107
1988/89	11.	54

Profession and Politics

After her sporting career, which she ended at the age of 24, she first devoted herself to studying engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology . After graduating in 1992, she worked in this profession for several years.

Marjo Matikainen-Kallström was a member of the European Parliament from 1996 to 2004 , she belonged to the Group of the European People's Party . She has been a member of the Finnish Parliament since 2003 and is also vice-chairman of Kokoomus , the liberal-conservative party in Finland. Since 2000 she has been a member of the Presidium of the Finnish Olympic Committee.

Web links

• Marjo Matikainen-Kallström in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Marjo Matikainen-Kallström in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Entry on Marjo Matikainen-Kallström in the database of Members of the European Parliament
• Portrait on the side of the Finnish Parliament ( English ) Archived from the original on May 13, 2014.