Heikki Hasu

Heikki Hasu
Full name	Heikki Vihtori Hasu
nation	Finland
birthday	21st March 1926 (age 94)
place of birth	Sippola , Finland
size	176 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	Nordic combined cross-country skiing
society	Myllycosken Kilpa-Veikot
Trainer	Veli Saariselta
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1948 St. Moritz NK single gold 1952 Oslo CC relay silver 1952 Oslo NK single  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1950 Lake Placid NK single silver 1950 Lake Placid CC relay gold 1952 Oslo CC relay

Heikki Vihtori Hasu (born March 21, 1926 in Sippola ) is a former Finnish skier who was successful in Nordic combined and cross-country skiing . Later he was active as a politician.

Career

Hasu, who competed for Myllykosken Kilpa-Veikot , made his international debut at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . He won the gold medal in the individual Nordic combined . Over 18 kilometers in cross-country skiing, he finished fourth and narrowly missed another medal. A short time after the games, Hasu celebrated his first success at the Lahti Ski Games in Nordic combined. He was also able to celebrate this success the following year. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lake Placid in 1950 , Hasu won the gold medal in the Nordic Combined and the silver medal in the cross-country skiing relay.

In 1951 he won again at the Lahti Ski Games. In Oslo , Hasu won his second Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics together with Paavo Lonkila , Urpo Korhonen and Tapio Mäkelä in the cross-country relay competition. Since the cross-country skiing competitions were also considered the Nordic World Ski Championships , he was also world champion. In the individual of the Nordic combined he had to admit defeat to the Norwegian Simon Slåttvik and won the silver medal. He just missed a third medal as fourth in 18 km cross-country skiing. He was only four seconds behind his compatriot Paavo Lonkila, who won bronze.

In 1953 he was the first Finn to win the combination competition on Holmenkollen.

politics

After his active career Hasu became involved in politics and sat from 1962 to 1966 and from 1967 to 1970 for two terms as a member of the Finnish Center (until 1965 Landbund ) in the Finnish Parliament .

Awards

In 1948 Hasu was voted Sportsman of the Year for the first time . In 1950 he was named athlete of the year for the second time. After the successful games, he was also the first Finn to be honored with the Holmenkollen Medal in 1952 .

In 2003 a 5.5 meter statue for Hasu was erected in front of the town hall in Anjalankoski . It was designed and designed by the artist Juhani Honkanen .

Web links

Commons : Heikki Hasu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heikki Hasu in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Heikki Hasu in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - cross-country skiing
• Heikki Hasu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Heikki Hasu on the pages of the Finnish Parliament
• Heikki Hasu in the norske leksikon store
• Heikki Hasu on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vuoden urheilija Heikki Hasu veti aikoinaan pitkiä treenejä ( Finnish ) YLE.fi. January 14, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
2. ↑ World Ski Championships 1950 - Men's Individual K90 / 15.0 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
3. ↑ Finland Cross Country Skiing at the 1952 Oslo Winter Games ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
4. ^ Nordic Combined at the 1952 Oslo Winter Games: Men's Individual ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
5. ↑ Cross Country Skiing at the 1952 Oslo Winter Games: Men's 18 kilometers ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
6. ^ Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
7. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
8. ↑ Heikki Hasu ( Finnish ) kouvola.fi. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 26, 2013.  
9. ^ Heikki Hasun monumentti ( Finnish ) Juhani Honkanen. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 26, 2013.