Väinö Liikkanen
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | 1932 Lake Placid | 50 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1935 Vysoké Tatry | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1933 Innsbruck | 18 km | |
Väinö Liikkanen was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1920's and 1930's. He won a silver medal in the 50km event at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Liikkanen also won two medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 x 10 km (1935) and a bronze in the 18 km (1933).
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1933 Sweden Per Erik Hedlund, Sven Utterström, Nils-Joel Englund, & Hjalmar Bergström
1934 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Martti Lappalainen, & Veli Saarinen
1935 Finland Mikko Husu, Klaes Karppinen, Väinö Liikkanen, & Sulo Nurmela
1937 Norway Annar Ryen, Oskar Fredriksen, Sigurd Røen, & Lars Bergendahl
1938 Finland Juho 'Jussi' Kurikkala, Martti Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, & Klaes Karppinen
1939 Finland Pauli Pitkänen, Olavi Alakulppi, Eino Olkinuora, & Klaes Karppinen
1950 Sweden Nils Täpp, Karl-Erik Åström, Martin Lundström, & Enar Josefsson
1954 Finland August Kiuru, Tapio Mäkelä, Arvo Viitanen, & Veikko Hakulinen
1958 Sweden Sixten Jernberg, Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn, & Per-Erik Larsson
1962 Sweden Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, & Assar Rönnlund
1966 Norway Odd Martinsen, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter, & Gjermund Eggen
1970 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Valery Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev & Vyacheslav Vedenin
1974 East Germany Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer & Gert-Dietmar Klause
1978 Sweden Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johansson, Tommy Limby & Thomas Magnusson
1982 Norway Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, & Oddvar Brå and
1982 Soviet Union Vladimir Nikitin, Alexander Batyuk, Yuriy Burlakov, & Alexander Zavyalov
1985 Norway Arild Monsen, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Tor Håkon Holte, & Ove Aunli
1987 Sweden Erik Östlund, Gunde Svan, Thomas Wassberg, & Torgny Mogren
1989 Sweden Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, & Torgny Mogren
1991 Norway Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, & Bjørn Dæhlie
1993 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, & Bjørn Dæhlie
1995 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
1997 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
1999 Austria Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, & Christian Hoffmann
2001 Norway Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Thomas Alsgaard, & Tor Arne Hetland
2003 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, & Thomas Alsgaard
2005 Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, & Tore Ruud Hofstad
2007 Norway Eldar Rønning, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Lars Berger, & Petter Northug
