Aimo Tepsell

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Aimo Allan Tepsell (born May 8, 1932 in Sodankylä ) is a former Finnish orienteer . Tepsell was runner-up in the singles and with the Finnish relay in 1966. With this he had already become European champion two years earlier.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Tepsell was one of the best orienteers in Finland for a long time. In 1954 he became Finnish champion for the first time. Four more Finnish individual championship titles should follow in his career. In 1962 he took part in the first European Championships in Løten, Norway, and was 14th. With the team, he won the relay competition, which was not part of the official competition program of the European Championships. Two years later in the now official relay competition, the Finnish relay with Juhani Salmenkylä , Rolf Koskinen and Erkki Kohvakka was able to win again. In the individual competition Tepsell was third behind Kohvakka and the Swiss Alex Schwager . In the Jukola relay race in 1965, he brought his club Gamlakarleby IF from Kokkola as the final runner in second place behind the top Swedish team IFK Hedemora . In 1966 Tepsell was runner-up behind Åge Hadler from Norway at the first world championship in Fiskars, Finland . With the Finnish team - the same as in the European Championship triumph in 1964 - Tepsell won silver again as the final runner. The runners from Sweden won gold. For the second world championships in 1968 Tepsell was no longer nominated.

Successes in orienteering

World Championships:

  • 1966 : 2nd place long distance, 2nd place relay

European Championships:

  • 1964 : 3rd place long distance, 1st place relay

Nordic Championships:

  • 1964: 1st place in the relay

Finnish Championships:

  • 1954: 1st place normal distance
  • 1955: 1st place normal distance
  • 1956: 1st place normal distance
  • 1958: 1st place in the relay
  • 1962: 1st place normal distance
  • 1965: 1st place long distance, 1st place relay

Success in ski orienteering

Finnish Championships:

  • 1962: 1st place in the relay
  • 1965: 1st place in the relay
  • 1967: 1st place individual
  • 1968: 1st place individual, 1st place relay

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jukola.com: Jukola 1965, Jukolan Viesti
personal data
SURNAME Tepsell, Aimo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tepsell, Aimo Allan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish orienteer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sodankylä , Finland