Sami Kallunki

Sami Kallunki
Full name	Sami Olavi Kallunki
nation	Finland
birthday	April 27, 1971
place of birth	Kuusamo ,  Finland
date of death	December 2, 1999
Place of death	Kuusamo ,  Finland
Career
discipline	Nordic combination
society	Kuusamon Erä-Veikot
last change: end of career

Sami Olavi Kallunki (born April 27, 1971 in Kuusamo ; † December 2, 1999 there ) was a Finnish Nordic combined athlete who started for Kuusamon Erä-Veikot when he was active . He took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics for Finland .

Career

In 1991 he was allowed to take part in the Nordic World Ski Championships for Finland in 1991 in Val di Fiemme, Italy , and was allowed to start in individual and team competitions. After taking 37th place in the individual competition, he started the relay together with Pasi Saapunki , Jukka Ylipulli . The race finished the Finnish relay in sixth place.

A year later, he qualified for the 1992 Winter Olympics in the French community of Albertville and was also nominated by the Suomen Olympic Committee for the Winter Games. Although he finished 28th in the individual as the third-best Finn, Jari Mantila was preferred to him in the relay , who did not finish the individual competition. On December 12, 1993 he was able to take third place in the home of Kuopio in World Cup B behind Tsugiharu Ogiwara from Japan and the Norwegian Glenn Skram .

Web links

• Sami Kallunki in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Sami Kallunki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Samppa Lajunen hakee MM-kultaa. mtv.fi, February 21, 2003, accessed February 21, 2018 (Finnish).