Sirkka Polkunen
Sirkka Tellervo "Telle" Polkunen (later Vilander, born November 6, 1927) is a former cross-country skier from Finland who competed during the 1950s.
She was born in Jyväskylä.
She won a gold medal in the 3 x 5 km at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Polkunen also finished 5th in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.
Polkunen also won a silver medal in the 3 x 5 km at the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and finished 6th in the 10 km event at those same championships.
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1976: Soviet Union ( Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina & Galina Kulakova) * 1980: East Germany ( Marlies Rostock, Carola Anding, Veronika Hesse & Barbara Petzold) * 1984: Norway ( Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Britt Pettersen & Berit Aunli) * 1988: Soviet Union ( Svetlana Nageykina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Tamara Tikhonova & Anfisa Reztsova) * 1992: Unified Team ( Yelena Välbe, Raisa Smetanina, Larisa Lazutina & Lyubov Yegorova) * 1994: Russia ( Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Lyubov Yegorova) * 1998: Russia ( Nina Gavrilyuk, Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe & Larisa Lazutina) * 2002: Germany ( Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel & Evi Sachenbacher) * 2006: Russia ( Natalia Baranova-Masalkina, Larisa Kurkina, Yuliya Chepalova & Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova) * 2010: Norway ( Vibeke Skofterud, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen) |
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Cross-country skier |
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1927 |
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