# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matti-nykanen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:09:02.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matti-nykanen"
name: "Matti Nykänen"
slug: "matti-nykanen"
description: "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."
tagline: "Finnish ski jumper (1963–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matti_Nyk%C3%A4nen_2014-01-30_001_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1963-07-17"
deathDate: "2019-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4310086800359174
  historical:           24.05092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump