Pentti Kokkonen
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's ski jumping | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1984 Engelberg | Team large hill | |
| Gold | 1985 Seefeld | Team large hill | |
| Bronze | 1982 Oslo | Team large hill | |
Pentti Kokkonen (born December 15, 1955 in Jämsä). is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1977 to 1986. He won three medals in the team large hill at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with two golds (1984, 1985) and one bronze (1982). Kokkonen's best individual finish at the world championships was 5th in the large hill at Lahti in 1978.
At the Winter Olympics, his best finish was 5th in the individual normal hill at Lake Placid, New York in 1980.
Kokkonen had two individual victories in his career, both in the normal hill in Austria in 1979 as part of the Four Hills Tournament competition for which he emerged as the overall winner.
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1982 Norway Johan Sætre, Per Bergerud, Ole Bremseth & Olav Hansson
1984 Finland Markku Pusenius, Pentti Kokkonen, Jari Puikkonen & Matti Nykänen
1985 Finland Tuomo Ylipulli, Pentti Kokkonen, Matti Nykänen & Jari Puikkonen
1987 Finland Matti Nykänen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Tuomo Ylipulli & Pekka Suorsa
1989 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jari Puikkonen, Matti Nykänen & Risto Laakkonen
1991 Austria Heinz Kuttin, Ernst Vettori Stefan Horngacher & Andreas Felder
1993 Norway Bjørn Myrbakken, Helge Brendryen, Øyvind Berg & Espen Bredesen
1995 Finland Jani Soininen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Laitinen & Ari-Pekka Nikkola
1997 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Jani Soininen, Mika Laitinen & Janne Ahonen
1999 Germany Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma & Martin Schmitt
2001 Germany Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann, Alexander Herr & Martin Schmitt
2003 Finland Janne Ahonen, Tami Kiuru, Arttu Lappi & Matti Hautamäki
2005 Austria Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern & Martin Höllwarth
2007 Austria Wolfgang Loitzl, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Andreas Kofler & Thomas Morgenstern
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