Antti Hyvärinen
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| Gold | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | Individual large hill | |
Antti Abram Hyvärinen (Jun 21, 1932, Rovaniemi - Jan 13, 2000) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed in the 1950's.
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.
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| Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill |
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| 1924: Jacob Tullin Thams | 1928: Alf Andersen | 1932: Birger Ruud | 1936: Birger Ruud | 1948: Petter Hugsted | 1952: Arnfinn Bergmann | 1956: Antti Hyvärinen | 1960: Helmut Recknagel | 1964: Toralf Engan | 1968: Vladimir Belussov | 1972: Wojciech Fortuna | 1976: Karl Schnabl | 1980: Jouko Törmänen | 1984: Matti Nykänen | 1988: Matti Nykänen | 1992: Toni Nieminen | 1994: Jens Weissflog | 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki | 2002: Simon Ammann | 2006: Thomas Morgenstern |
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