Tapio Räisänen
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| Medal record | |||
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| Men's ski jumping | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1978 Lahti | Individual large hill | |
Tapio Räisänen (born May 10, 1949 in Taivalkoski). is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed in the late 1970's. He won a gold medal in the individual large hill competition at the 1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti and finished 6th in the normal hill at those same championships.
Räisänen's best non-world championship career finish was 9th in a normal hill event at Bischofshofen, Austria in 1979.
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| World champions in ski jumping individual large hill |
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| 1925: Willen Dick | 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams | 1927: Tore Edman | 1929: Sigmund Ruud | 1930: Gunnar Andersen | 1931: Birger Ruud | 1933: Marcel Reymond | 1934: Kristian Johansson | 1935: Birger Ruud | 1937: Birger Ruud | 1938: Asbjørn Ruud | 1939: Josef Bradl | 1950: Hans Bjørnstad | 1954: Matti Pietikäinen | 1958: Juhani Kärkinen | 1962: Helmut Recknagel | 1966: Bjørn Wirkola | 1970: Gariy Napalkov | 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach | 1978: Tapio Räisänen | 1982 Matti Nykänen | 1985 Per Bergerud | 1987: Andreas Felder | 1989: Jari Puikkonen | 1991: Franci Petek | 1993: Espen Bredesen | 1995: Tommy Ingebrigtsen | 1997: Masahiko Harada | 1999: Martin Schmitt | 2001: Martin Schmitt | 2003: Adam Małysz | 2005: Janne Ahonen |
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