Matti Nykänen
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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.
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The longest jump at the ski jumping stadium in Laajavuori, Jyväskylä is called Matti Nykänen Hill (previously called Laajavuori Ski Jump Hill)
Nykänen on a postage stamp
Matti Nykänen in Finnish military service, 1984
Matti Nykänen's Olympic, World Championship and Finnish Medals at the Sports Museum. The collection is owned by the Finnish Sports Museum Foundation
Matti Nykänen performs in Jyväskylä after JYP won the 2009 Finnish ice hockey championship
Nykänen performing in 2010
Matti Nykänen at the Kiuruvesi music event in 2013Listen
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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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