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Tapio Mäkelä

1926 - 2016

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Tapio Valfrid Mäkelä (12 October 1926 – 12 May 2016) was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. He won the 4 × 10 km relay gold and the 18 km silver at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Mäkelä also won a gold in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tapio Mäkelä has received more than 13,250 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Tapio Mäkelä is the 99th most popular skier (up from 103rd in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Finland (down from 310th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Finnish Skier.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 99 out of 817. Before him are Franco Nones, Yvonne Rüegg, Elis Wiklund, Jan Boklöv, Anders Haugen, and Christine Goitschel. After him are Anja Pärson, Heini Hemmi, Pavel Kolchin, Phil Mahre, Erika Mahringer, and Nils Östensson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 398. Before him are Chuck Cooper, Georgi Yumatov, Mustafa Ertan, Ernest Mühlen, Helen Gallagher, and Stafford Beer. After him are Giovanni Invernizzi, Wolfgang Seidel, Efraín Sánchez, Beatriz Segall, Astrid Ivask, and Jacques Swaters. Among people deceased in 2016, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 390. Before him are Douglas Slocombe, Fritz Herkenrath, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, Anton Pronk, Michel Rousseau, and Bob Baetens. After him are Alexis Arquette, Rune Larsson, Alberto Sainz, Malick Sidibé, José Luis Artetxe, and Erol Keskin.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 326 out of 751. Before him are Jalmari Eskola (1886), Miina Sillanpää (1866), Adolf Lindfors (1879), Kirka (1950), Teemu Selänne (1970), and Tauno Palo (1908). After him are Vilho Väisälä (1889), Mirja Hietamies (1931), Timo Soini (1962), Claes Andersson (1937), Veli Saarinen (1902), and Paavo Yrjölä (1902).

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Among SKIERS In Finland

Among skiers born in Finland, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 9. Before him are Juha Mieto (1949), Janne Ahonen (1977), Toini Gustafsson (1938), Aulis Kallakorpi (1929), Heikki Hasu (1926), and Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (1955). After him are Jouko Törmänen (1954), Paavo Lonkila (1923), Aki Karvonen (1957), Matti Lähde (1911), Helena Takalo (1947), and Klaes Karppinen (1907).

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