Veikko Hakulinen

Veikko Hakulinen
Veikko hakulinen
Full name	Veikko Johannes Hakulinen
nation	Finland
birthday	January 4, 1925
place of birth	Kurkijoki , Finland
date of death	October 25, 2003
Place of death	Valkeakoski , Finland
Career
job	ranger
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 3 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1952 Oslo 50 km gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 30 km silver 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 50 km silver 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Season gold 1960 Squaw Valley Season silver 1960 Squaw Valley 50 km bronze 1960 Squaw Valley 15 km  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1954 Falun 15 km gold 1954 Falun Season silver 1954 Falun 30 km silver 1954 Falun 50 km gold 1958 Lahti 15 km silver 1958 Lahti 50 km bronze 1958 Lahti Season  Biathlon world championships silver 1963 Seefeld silver

Veikko Johannes Hakulinen (born January 4, 1925 in Kurkijoki , † October 25, 2003 in Valkeakoski ) was a Finnish cross-country skier and biathlete .

place of birth

His birthplace Kurkijoki was on the Karelian isthmus in Finland, but since the end of World War II it belonged to the Soviet Union, then to Russia.

Career

Hakulinen won the 50 km cross-country skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics , with the remarkable time of 3 hours, 33 minutes and 33 seconds. For the ultimately victorious season, he was not called up. He won the gold medal over 30 km in 1956 and gold with the Finnish relay team in 1960 . At the Ski World Cup in 1954 , Hakulinen was world champion over 15 km and with the relay, at the Ski World Cup in 1958 he won the gold medal over 15 km. There are also three silver and one bronze medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships.
At the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 1953 he won over 18 km and 50 km, in 1955 over 50 km and 1957 over 15 km. Between 1952 and 1954 he won the 50 km run at the Lahti Ski Games three times in a row . In March 1956 he took third place in this run. In early January 1956 he won the 50 km cross-country skiing in Kuopio . In the Finnish championships he won three times over 50 km (1954, 1957, 1958) and five times with the relay (1954, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964).

In the 1950s and 1960s, Hakulinen was the most successful medal collector in cross-country skiing , alongside the Swede Sixten Jernberg . The success of the two was only surpassed in the 1980s and 1990s by the Swede Gunde Svan and the Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie . Hakulinen was voted Finnish Sportsman of the Year four times (1952, 1953, 1954, 1960) and received the Holmenkollen Medal in 1955 .

At the beginning of the 1960s he switched to biathlon and won the silver medal with the relay at the 1963 World Cup . Hakulinen was a forester by profession and also took part in competitions in orienteering , ski orienteering , cross-country skiing and rowing at the national level . He died at the age of 78 as a result of a traffic accident.

Success as a cross-country skier

winter Olympics

• 1952 in Oslo : Gold over 50 km
• 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo : gold over 30 km, silver over 50 km, silver with the relay
• 1960 in Squaw Valley : gold with the relay, silver over 50 km, bronze over 15 km

World championships

• 1954 in Falun : Gold over 15 km, gold with the relay, silver over 30 km, silver over 50 km
• 1958 in Lahti : gold over 15 km, silver over 50 km, bronze with the relay

Other successes

• 1953: Victory 18 km and 50 km Holmenkollen, 50 km Lathi
• 1955: Victory 50 km Holmenkollen and Lathi, 2nd place 15 km Cortina
• Victory 15 km cross-country Holmenkollen on March 1, 1957; Finnish master; Second 50 km Holmenkollen, victory 15 km FIS week Garmisch

Body measurements

1.73 m tall, 68 kg heavy

Success as a biathlete

• Biathlon World Cup 1963 in Seefeld : Silver with the relay

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holmenkollenrennet winners list
2. ↑ Results Lahti Ski Games
3. ↑ «Olympic eliminations in the north. Finland »;« Sport Zürich », No. 3 of January 9, 1956, page 4.
4. ^ A duel of the giants: Hakulinen before Jernberg . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 2, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ^ "Portrait of the winner", "Sport Zürich", No. 28 of March 7, 1958, page 2.