Kurt Elimä
| Kurt Elimä | |
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| Full name | Kurt Sigvard Elimä |
| Born | 24 August 1939 Korpilombolo, Norrbotten, Sweden |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Ski club | Malmbergets AIF Gällivare IFK Kiruna |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 1964–1968 |
Kurt Elimä (born 24 August 1939) is a Swedish former ski jumper who competed internationally from 1963 to 1968. He finished seventh in the individual normal hill event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.[1][2]
Elimä's best career finish international was fourth in an individual normal hill event in Austria in 1966.
"Kurre" won five Swedish Championships, participated in two Olympics (1964 and 1968)[1] and one world cup. He finished third in the classic Garmisch-Partenkirchen and won the Swiss ski weeks. He was a Swedish champion in 1963–1965, 1967 and 1969 and received Stora Grabbars Märke in 1969.
Biography[]
Kurt grew up in Korpilombolo, he has 12 siblings and was the second oldest.
Kurt is from a family of ski jumpers, with several brothers who have jumped including (who won Swedish Champions 1978) is one of those who also competed at a high level, and in the 1960s their father Lorenz Elimä built a jump on a hill in Malmberget.
Kurt started with a ski jumping club in Koskullskulle AIF; he also competed for the second tusk in his career as IFK Kiruna and .
In Kaif (Koskullskulle AIF), he has also been active after he stopped competing, he has trained ski jumper Jan Boklöv who is the founder of V style that today is the basic style of ski jumping.
Kurt currently lives in Malmberget, and has put in as coach of Kaif.
References[]
- ^ a b Kurt Elimä. sports-reference.com
- ^ Kurt Elimä. Swedish Olympic Committee
External links[]
- Kurt Elimaee at the International Ski Federation
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110823161758/http://olympicairport.drift.senselogic.se/5.aad0b10833d63e5c800018696.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100522044516/http://www.skidor.com/sv/SvenskaSkidforbundet/Historikochstatistik/Svenskamastare/Backenordiskkombination/
- http://www.nsd.se/arkiv/2006/02/02/Sport/3467161/Backhoppningen-%E4r-d%F6d.aspx (Swedish text)
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