Matti Pietikäinen
Matti Pietikäinen 
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| birthday | October 29, 1927 | ||||||||
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Kuopio , Finland
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| date of death | 5th November 1967 | ||||||||
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Finland
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| society | Puijon Hiihtoseura | ||||||||
| National squad | since 1948 | ||||||||
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Matti Pietikäinen (born October 29, 1927 in Kuopio , † November 5, 1967 ) was a Finnish ski jumper .
Career
Pietikäinen, who started for the club in his hometown of Kuopio , the Puijon Hiihtoseura, was the youngest of the three Pietikäinen brothers who dominated ski jumping in Finland in the 1940s , after Lauri and Aatto . He was also one of the first ski jumpers who, instead of jumping with arms outstretched, put his arms on the sides of his body.
At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , he came fourth, his brother Aatto eighth. Four years later in Oslo, he was not on the Finnish line-up as punishment for a bar fight. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lake Placid in 1950 , he jumped from the normal hill to ninth place.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in 1954 , Pietikänen secured the gold medal in front of his compatriot Veikko Heinonen and the Swede Bror Östman, making him the first Finnish world champion in ski jumping.
Pietikänen held the hill record of 39 meters on the hill in Kotka until it was demolished.
Matti Pietikäinen died in a traffic accident in 1967 a few days after his 40th birthday.
successes
Hill records
| place | country | Expanse | set up on | Record up |
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| Iron Mountain |
 United States
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89.0 m ( HS : 130 m) |
1949 | 1949 |
| Kuopio |
Finland
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86.0 m ( HS : 127 m) |
1951 | March 3, 1998 |
literature
- Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
Web links
- Matti Pietikäinen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Matti Pietikäinen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Matti Pietikäinen on The-Sports.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 156
- ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 157
- ↑ Kotka on Skisprungschanzen.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pietikäinen, Matti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuopio , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1967 |