Matti Nykänen
Matti Ensio Nykänen was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. Known as "The Flying Finn", he is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won five Winter Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals, and 22 Finnish Championship medals. Most notably, he won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands, the most medaled athlete that winter.
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- Educated at
- University of Helsinki
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Esko Ukkonen🎓 Gösta Kristoffer Grahne
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1963
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