Martti Lappalainen

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Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
World Championships
Gold 1934 Sollefteå 4 x 10 km
Bronze 1934 Sollefteå 18 km
Military patrol
Olympic Games
Silver 1924 Chamonix ]]Team

Martti Lappalainen (1902-1941) was a Finnish skier who won the 50 km cross-country skiing event at Holmenkollen ski festival in 1928. As a result of this victory, he became the second non-Norwegian winner of any event run up to that point, behind fellow Finn Anton Collin, who won the 50 km event in 1922.

Lappalainen finished 4th in the 18 km event at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. At the 1934 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sollefteå he won a gold in the 4 x 10 km and a bronze in the 18 km.

He also was a part of the Military patrol for Finland that took silver in the 1924 Winter Olympics.

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