Antti Hyvärinen

Full name

Antti Abram Hyvärinen

nation

Finland

birthday

June 21, 1932

place of birth

Rovaniemi , Finland

date of death

January 13, 2000

Place of death

Bad Nauheim , Germany

Career

society

Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura

Medal table

Olympic medals	1 ×	0 ×	0 ×
World Cup medals	1 ×	0 ×	0 ×

winter Olympics
gold	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Large hill
Nordic World Ski Championships
gold	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Large hill

Antti Abram Hyvärinen (born June 21, 1932 in Rovaniemi , † January 13, 2000 in Bad Nauheim ) was a Finnish ski jumper and ski jumping hill designer .

Career

Hyvärinen began his career in the same club as Tauno Luiro , who was a few months older, also from Rovaniemi, who had to end his career early because of diabetes mellitus and died in 1955 of pulmonary tuberculosis . Hyvärinen caused a stir at the Finnish Junior Championship in 1951, where he finished second. A year later, at the age of 19, he took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo for the first time, where he was the seventh best athlete in his country. During these games, the then coach Veli Saarinen was optimistic about Hyvärinen's future: “We still have Pietikäinen now . But I think this Hyvärinen will move forward at the next Olympics. ”In the following years, Lasse Johannesen , Saarinen's successor as national coach, set up a young Finnish team that switched to the fish style , a newly developed ski jumping technique, and soon took over the international leadership position from the Norwegians.

While his teammates had great successes from 1954 - Matti Pietikäinen became world champion in Falun in 1954, and Hemmo Silvennoinen won the Four Hills Tournament a year later - Hyvärinen failed to achieve outstanding results; he was often placed in the front midfield. Although he won the trial competition on the Olympic hill in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1955 and the jumping in Kuopio at the beginning of January 1956 , he was only considered "Finland's number three" and was therefore given an earlier starting position than his favorite at the 1956 Winter Olympics Opponents and teammates Eino Kirjonen and Aulis Kallakorpi . It also played a role that Hyvärinen was viewed as rather phlegmatic; Immediately before the Olympics, his coach Johannesen accused him of being “so temperamental, risking little and showing too little commitment in a big fight”. Despite this assessment, the Finn was confident and said after a test jump to the German journalist Paul Laven that he considered himself the most promising jumper at the Winter Olympics.

Hyvärinen actually triumphed in the ski jumping competition on the Trampolino Italia on the final day of the Winter Games. After the first round he was level on points with the German Max Bolkart in third place, in the second attempt he jumped the daily best distance of 84 meters and displaced Harry Glaß and his teammate Aulis Kallakorpi from the leading positions. In retrospect, Hyvärinen's jump in the finals was described as “something unique” or as a “truly Olympic flight”; he himself declared that he had never been “in such good shape”. The Olympic victory was also associated with the world championship, which in Olympic years was always awarded to the winner of the Games. At the end of 1956, Hyvärinen was also named Finland's Sportsman of the Year .

After the end of his career he was first coach of the ski club of his hometown, Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura , 1960–1964 he was the ski jumping hill designer of the Finnish Ski Association.

Web links

Antti Hyvärinen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Antti Hyvärinen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Paul Laven : Antti Hyvärinen . In: German Olympic Society (Hrsg.): Olympic fire . Issue 3, March 1956. Pages 12–13.
↑ «Olympic eliminations in the north. Finland"; “Sport Zürich”, No. 3 of January 9, 1956, page 4.
↑ ^a ^b Antti Abram Hyvärinen . In: Heinz Schöbel (Ed.): VII. Olympic Winter Games Cortina d'Ampezzo . Sportverlag, Berlin 1956, p. 78.
^ ^A ^b Kurt Bernegger : New Springer Great Power - Finland . In: Kurt Jeschko (Ed.): VII. Olympic Winter Games Cortina 1956 . Werner Riekmann Verlag, Baden 1956. pp. 93f.

^ Festival of the ski jumping event of the "Italia-Schanze" . In: Harald Lechenperg (ed.): Olympic Games 1956 - Cortina d'Ampezzo • Stockholm • Melbourne. Copress-Verlag, Munich 1957, p. 93ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Hyvärinen, Antti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hyvärinen, Antti Abram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish ski jumper and ski jumping hill designer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rovaniemi , Finland
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 2000
Place of death	Bad Nauheim , Germany

[OF-1] A ^b Paul Laven : Antti Hyvärinen . In: German Olympic Society (Hrsg.): Olympic fire . Issue 3, March 1956. Pages 12–13.

[2] «Olympic eliminations in the north. Finland"; “Sport Zürich”, No. 3 of January 9, 1956, page 4.

[Sportverlag-3] Antti Abram Hyvärinen . In: Heinz Schöbel (Ed.): VII. Olympic Winter Games Cortina d'Ampezzo . Sportverlag, Berlin 1956, p. 78.

[Bernegger-4] A ^b Kurt Bernegger : New Springer Great Power - Finland . In: Kurt Jeschko (Ed.): VII. Olympic Winter Games Cortina 1956 . Werner Riekmann Verlag, Baden 1956. pp. 93f.

[5] Festival of the ski jumping event of the "Italia-Schanze" . In: Harald Lechenperg (ed.): Olympic Games 1956 - Cortina d'Ampezzo • Stockholm • Melbourne. Copress-Verlag, Munich 1957, p. 93ff.