Veikko Kankkonen

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Olympic medal record
Ski jumping
Gold 1964 Innsbruck Individual normal hill
Silver 1964 Innsbruck Individual large hill

Veikko Kankkonen (born January 5, 1940) is a Finnish ski jumper who was active in the 1960's.

Kankkonen earned two ski jumping medals at the 1964 Winter Olympics with a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill. That same year he won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival, which also earned him the Holmenkollen medal (Shared with Eero Mäntyranta, Georg Thoma, and Halvor Næs). He also won Four Hills Tournament.

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Olympic champions in ski jumping individual normal hill
1964: Veikko Kankkonen * 1968: Jiří Raška * 1972: Yukio Kasaya * 1976: Hans-Georg Aschenbach * 1980: Toni Innauer * 1984: Jens Weissflog * 1988: Matti Nykänen * 1992: Ernst Vettori * 1994: Espen Bredesen * 1998: Jani Soininen * 2002: Simon Ammann * 2006: Lars Bystøl
Preceded by
Alevtina Kolchina, Pavel Kolchin, Astrid Sandvik, & Torbjørn Yggeseth		 Holmenkollen medal with Eero Mäntyranta, Georg Thoma, & Halvor Næs
1964		 Succeeded by
Arto Tiainen, Bengt Eriksson, & Arne Larsen