Kalevi Hämäläinen
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1960 Squaw Valley | 50 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1958 Lahti | 30 km | |
| Bronze | 1958 Lahti | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1962 Zakopane | 50 km | |
Kalevi Hämäläinen (born December 13, 1932 in Juva, died January 10, 2005) is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won the 50km event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.
Hämäläinen also won three medals in the Nordic skiing World Championships with a gold in the 30 km (1958), and bronzes in the 4 x 10 km (1958) and the 50 km (1962).
He was the father of Olympic cross country skiing medalist Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen (now Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi).
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| Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross country |
| 1924: Thorleif Haug | 1928: Per Erik Hedlund | 1932: Veli Saarinen | 1936: Elis Wiklund | 1948: Nils Karlsson | 1952: Veikko Hakulinen | 1956: Sixten Jernberg | 1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1964: Sixten Jernberg | 1968: Ole Ellefsæter | 1972: Pål Tyldum | 1976: Ivar Formo | 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1984: Thomas Wassberg | 1988: Gunde Svan | 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1994: Vladimir Smirnov | 1998: Bjørn Dæhlie | 2002: Mikhail Ivanov | 2006: Giorgio Di Centa |
| World champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing |
| 1926: Matti Raivio | 1954: Vladimir Kuzin | 1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1962: Eero Mäntyranta | 1966: Eero Mäntyranta | 1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1974: Thomas Magnusson | 1978: Sergey Savelyev | 1982: Thomas Eriksson | 1985: Gunde Svan | 1987: Thomas Wassberg | 1989: Vladimir Smirnov | 1991: Gunde Svan | 1993: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1995: Vladimir Smirnov | 1997: Alexey Prokourorov | 1999: Mika Myllylä | 2001: Andrus Veerpalu | 2003: Thomas Alsgaard |
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