Kalevi Hämäläinen

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Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold 1960 Squaw Valley 50 km
World Championships
Gold 1958 Lahti 30 km
Bronze 1958 Lahti 4 x 10 km
Bronze 1962 Zakopane 50 km

Kalevi Hämäläinen (born December 13, 1932 in Juva, died January 10, 2005) is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won the 50 km event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

Hämäläinen also won three medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 30 km (1958), and bronzes in the 4 x 10 km (1958) and the 50 km (1962).

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Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross country
1924: Thorleif Haug * 1928: Per Erik Hedlund * 1932: Veli Saarinen * 1936: Elis Wiklund * 1948: Nils Karlsson * 1952: Veikko Hakulinen * 1956: Sixten Jernberg * 1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen * 1964: Sixten Jernberg * 1968: Ole Ellefsæter * 1972: Pål Tyldum * 1976: Ivar Formo * 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov * 1984: Thomas Wassberg * 1988: Gunde Svan * 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie * 1994: Vladimir Smirnov * 1998: Bjørn Dæhlie * 2002: Mikhail Ivanov * 2006: Giorgio Di Centa
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World champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing
1926: Matti Raivio * 1954: Vladimir Kuzin * 1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen * 1962: Eero Mäntyranta * 1966: Eero Mäntyranta * 1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin * 1974: Thomas Magnusson * 1978: Sergey Savelyev * 1982: Thomas Eriksson * 1985: Gunde Svan * 1987: Thomas Wassberg * 1989: Vladimir Smirnov * 1991: Gunde Svan * 1993: Bjørn Dæhlie * 1995: Vladimir Smirnov * 1997: Alexey Prokurorov * 1999: Mika Myllylä * 2001: Andrus Veerpalu * 2003: Thomas Alsgaard
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