"THE FLYING FINN"ANTTI HYVÄRINEN"WORLDS STAR SKI JUMPER AND OLYMPIC WINNER:FROM FINLAND(SUOMI-FINLAND)

Antti Hyvärinen

Medal record
Men's Ski jumping
Competitor for Finland
Olympic Games
Gold	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Large hill

Antti Abram Hyvärinen (June 21, 1932 – January 13, 2000) was a Finnish ski jumperRovaniemi. who competed in the 1950s. He was born in

His best year as a ski jumper was 1956, when he won a gold medal in the Individual large hill at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo as well as the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival. He became the first non-Norwegian ski jumper to win an Olympic gold medal.

[edit] External links

• FIS-Ski: A. Hyvaerinen – statistics
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)

Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill 1924: Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR) * 1928: Alf Andersen (NOR) * 1932: Birger Ruud (NOR) * 1936: Birger Ruud (NOR) * 1948: Petter Hugsted (NOR) * 1952: Arnfinn BergmannAntti Hyvärinen (FIN) * 1960: Helmut Recknagel (EUA) * 1964: Toralf Engan (NOR) * 1968: Vladimir Belussov (URS) * 1972: Wojciech Fortuna (POL) * 1976: Karl Schnabl (AUT) * 1980: Jouko Törmänen (FIN) * 1984: Matti Nykänen (FIN) * 1988: Matti Nykänen (FIN) * 1992: Toni Nieminen (FIN) * 1994: Jens Weissflog (GER) * 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN) * 2002: Simon Ammann (SUI) * 2006: Thomas Morgenstern (NOR) * 1956: (AUT)

Awards
Preceded by Voitto Hellstén	Finnish Sportspersonality of the year 1956	Succeeded by Olavi Vuorisalo