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Veikko Kankkonen

1940 - Today

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Veikko Kankkonen (born 5 January 1940) is a retired Finnish ski jumper who competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics. He won two medals in 1964 with a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill event. That same year he won the jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival, which also earned him the Holmenkollen medal (shared with Eero Mäntyranta, Georg Thoma, and Halvor Næs). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Veikko Kankkonen has received more than 22,810 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Veikko Kankkonen is the 210th most popular athlete (up from 282nd in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Finland (up from 187th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Veikko Kankkonen ranks 210 out of 3,059. Before him are Meriones, Charley Paddock, František Pospíšil, Gisela Mauermayer, Sergey Litvinov, and Imre Földi. After him are Gyula Zsivótzky, Adhemar da Silva, Platt Adams, Harald Tammer, Ken McArthur, and Valeriy Pidluzhnyy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Veikko Kankkonen ranks 252. Before him are Kipchoge Keino, Larry Hankin, Bruce Beresford, Hiroshi Katayama, Jesús López Cobos, and Marcelino Martínez. After him are Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Gheorghe Gruia, Valie Export, Tommy Lawrence, Reinhard Bonnke, and Fleur Jaeggy.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Veikko Kankkonen ranks 145 out of 642. Before him are Elias Katz (1901), Lydia Wideman (1920), Sami Hyypiä (1973), Leo Kinnunen (1943), Hertta Kuusinen (1904), and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870). After him are Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955), Tuomas Holopainen (1976), Petter Adolf Karsten (1834), Magnus Enckell (1870), Juha Sipilä (1961), and Harald Öhquist (1891).

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Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Veikko Kankkonen ranks 12. Before him are Albin Stenroos (1889), Lauri Lehtinen (1908), Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Gunnar Höckert (1910), Lauri Virtanen (1904), and Elias Katz (1901). After him are Armas Taipale (1890), Ilmari Salminen (1902), Julius Skutnabb (1889), Julius Saaristo (1891), Elmer Niklander (1890), and Harri Larva (1906).

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