Kalevi Kärkinen

Kalevi Kärkinen
Full name	Kalevi Antero Kärkinen
nation	Finland
birthday	August 15, 1934
place of birth	Helsinki ,  Finland
date of death	April 8, 2004
Place of death	Lahti ,  Finland
Career
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	3. ( 1960/61 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 0 2

Kalevi Antero Kärkinen (born August 15, 1934 in Helsinki , † April 8, 2004 in Lahti ) was a Finnish ski jumper .

Career

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1958 , he reached ninth place in the individual on the normal hill, tied with Nikolai Schamow and Nikolai Kamenski . In 1959, Kärkinen set a new hill record of 85.5 m on the Papoose Peak Jumps in Squaw Valley , which lasted for a year until the 1960 Winter Olympics . At the Four Hills Tournament 1960/61 , the only one of his career in which he participated, he reached third place in Oberstdorf and Bischofshofen . In Partenkirchen it was only enough for a 22nd place. However, he was able to win in Innsbruck and in the end finished third in the tour's overall ranking.

Kalevi Kärkinen was the older brother of Juhani Kärkinen , who was also successful as a ski jumper.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
innsbruck	Austria	84.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	January 6, 1961	December 30, 1962

Web links

• Kalevi Kärkinen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ski jumping hill archive . www.skisprungschanzen.com. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.