Juhani Järvinen

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Juhani Järvinen Speed ​​skating
Juhani Järvinen - World Champion of Speed ​​Skating, 1959.JPG
Full name Jouko Juhani Järvinen
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday May 9, 1935
place of birth Varkaus
date of death May 31, 1984
Place of death Helsinki
Career
discipline Speed ​​skating
Medal table
M-World Championship medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
M-EM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
ISU All around world championships
gold Oslo 1959 All-around
ISU All-around European Championships
silver Gothenburg 1959 All-around
 

Jouko Juhani Järvinen (born May 9, 1935 in Tuulos , † May 31, 1984 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish speed skater .

Career

Järvinen was all around world champion in Oslo in 1959 . At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 1959 , he won the silver medal. His best result at the Olympic Games was a fourth place in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo .

In 1959 he ran a world record over 1500 meters of 2: 06.3 minutes. That record lasted for seven years.

Järvinen led the nobility calendar between 1959 and 1960 intermittently.

His son Timo works as a trainer and is married to the speed skater Emese Hunyady, who used to start for Austria .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The double home and the eternal longing derstandard.at, May 20, 2013, accessed March 16, 2017.