Niilo halons

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Niilo halons Ski jumping
Full name Kalle Niilo Ponteva Halons
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday December 25, 1940
place of birth Kouvola ,  FinlandFinlandFinland 
Career
society Asikkalan Raikas
Lahden Hiihtoseura
National squad since 1960
status resigned
End of career January 8, 1967
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 1960 Squaw Valley Large hill
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver 1960 Squaw Valley Large hill
bronze 1962 Zakopane Large hill
 

Kalle Niilo Ponteva Halonen (born December 25, 1940 in Kouvola ) is a former Finnish ski jumper . He jumped for the Asikkalan Raikas club, later for the Lahden Hiihtoseura .

Career

At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , he won the silver medal behind Helmut Recknagel , and the bronze medal at the 1962 Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane . However, he was not able to receive this medal immediately after the competition (on the final day, February 25th), because the referee made a mistake and Peter Lesser was ranked 3rd and he was honored. When the error was discovered, Lesser had already left with the GDR team. Until the end of his active sports career in 1967, he often reached the top ranks, but was never able to win an international jumping. After the end of his career, Halonen worked in Finland as a functionary of the Finnish Ski Association, until 1992 as the coordinator of the FIS for the discipline of ski jumping; at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 in Trondheim, he was a judge.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No ski jumper has won so well . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Halons, Niilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halonen, Kalle Niilo Ponteva (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Kouvola , Finland