Sulo Jääskeläinen

Sulo Jääskeläinen
Full name	Sulo Usa Jääskeläinen
nation	Russia Finland
birthday	December 19, 1890
place of birth	Vyborg ,  Russia
date of death	January 12, 1942
Place of death	Kotka
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	Lahden Hiihtoseura

Sulo Usa Jääskeläinen (born December 19, 1890 in Vyborg , Russian Empire , † January 12, 1942 in Kotka , Finland ) was a Finnish ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Jääskeläinen, who started for the Lahden Hiihtoseura club , celebrated his first international success when he won the first Baron von Willibrandt Challenge Cup in Sweden on March 5, 1911 , starting for Russia . In 1923 and 1924 he won the Lahti Ski Games .

At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc , he started in ski jumping as well as in combination. In ski jumping from the normal hill, he reached 11th place. In the Nordic Combined he reached the 16th place in the individual after the 6th place in jumping and 19th place in cross-country skiing . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1926 , Jääskeläinen jumped from the normal hill to 8th place and reached 18th place in the combination.

Web links

• Sulo Jääskeläinen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pekka Honkanon: The Story of Skijumping in Finland 1990 (accessed July 23, 2010).
2. ↑ Alltime Results ( English , PDF; 151 kB) 2010. Archived from the original on September 10, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 18, 201. 
3. ↑ Lahti 1926 . www.lahdenmuseot.fi. Retrieved July 23, 2010.