Veikko Kankkonen

Veikko Kankkonen
Full name	Esa Veikko Antero Kankkonen
nation	Finland
birthday	January 5, 1940
place of birth	Sotkamo ,  Finland
Career
National squad	since 1958
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1964 Innsbruck Normal hill silver 1964 Innsbruck Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1964 Innsbruck Normal hill silver 1964 Innsbruck Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	1. ( 1963/64 , 1965/66 )

Esa Veikko Antero Kankkonen (born January 5, 1940 in Sotkamo , Finland ) is a former Finnish ski jumper .

Career

He was the overall winner of the Four Hills Tournament in 1963/64 and 1965/66 . At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , he won gold on the normal hill (in Seefeld ) and silver on the large hill (on Bergisel ). Since the Nordic World Ski Championships were held this year as part of the Olympic Games, Kankkonen became world champion and vice world champion at the same time. In the same year he received the Holmenkollen Medal . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1962 he was tenth on the normal hill, in 1963 he won the Holmenkollenspringen.

He was unable to compete in the 1966 World Championships due to an injury.

At the 1968 Winter Olympics he was the flag bearer of Finland, but could not win any medals.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
innsbruck	Austria	95.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	February 9, 1962	4th January 1970

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «Kankkonen the sensation of the day»; «Kurier Wien» of February 1, 1964
2. ^ "Oslo: Start without Sweden's aces" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1966, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).