Jorma Kortelainen

	Jorma Kortelainen
Full name	Jorma Aksel Kortelainen
nation	Finland
birthday	December 17, 1932
place of birth	Pyhäselkä , Finland
date of death	December 27, 2012
Place of death	Jyväskylä
Career
Medal table
winter Olympics

Jorma Aksel Kortelainen (born December 17, 1932 in Pyhäselkä , † December 27, 2012 in Jyväskylä ) was a Finnish cross-country skier and rower .

Kortelainen won the silver medal with the relay in cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . At Finnish championships he won four times with the relay (1956, 1960, 1963, 1966) and once over 15 km (1963).

He started as a rower at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome . There he was eliminated in the semi-finals in one . At the Rowing World Championships in Lucerne in 1962 , he was eighth in the single and at the European Rowing Championships in 1963 in Copenhagen, tenth in the single. At Finnish championships he triumphed seven times in singles (1960–1963, 1965, 1967, 1968) and five times in doubles (1961–1963, 1971, 1973).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jorma Kortelainen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on October 3, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Kortelainen, Jorma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kortelainen, Jorma Aksel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish cross-country skier and rower
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pyhäselkä
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 2012
Place of death	Jyväskylä

[sref-1] Jorma Kortelainen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on October 3, 2018.