Antti Tyrväinen
Finnish biathlete
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Full name | Antti Eerkki Tyrväinen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1933-11-05)5 November 1933 Ylöjärvi, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 13 October 2013(2013-10-13) (aged 79) Tampere, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Biathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teams | 2 (1960, 1964) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals | 1 (0 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teams | 6 (1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals | 6 (1 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antti Eerkki Tyrväinen (5 November 1933 – 13 October 2013)[1][2] was a Finnish biathlete and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley,[1] and silver medals in the World Championships in 1962 and 1963 together with a bronze medal in 1965. He was born in Ylöjärvi.
Biathlon results
All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.[3]
Olympic Games
1 medal (1 silver)
Event | Individual |
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1960 Squaw Valley | Silver |
1964 Innsbruck | 13th |
World Championships
6 medals (1 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)
Event | Individual | Team (time) | Relay |
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1959 Courmayeur | 17th | 4th | — |
1961 Umeå | 5th | Gold | — |
1962 Hämeenlinna | Silver | Silver | — |
1963 Seefeld | Silver | Silver | — |
1965 Elverum | Bronze | 5th | — |
1966 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | 17th | — | 5th |
- *During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.
- **The team (time) event was removed in 1965, whilst the relay was added in 1966.
References
- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Antti Tyrväinen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ^ "Antti Tyrväinen kuollut". Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish). 14 October 2013. p. 18.
- ^ "Search results". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
External links
- Antti Tyrväinen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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World champions in men's biathlon – Team event
- 1958: (Adolf Wiklund, Olle Gunneriusson, Sture Ohlin, Sven Nilsson)
- 1959: (Vladimir Melanin, Dmitri Sokolov, Valentin Pzhenitsyn)
- 1961: (Kalevi Huuskonen, Paavo Repo, Antti Tyrväinen)
- 1962: (Vladimir Melanin, Valentin Pzhenitsyn, Nikolay Puzanov)
- 1963: (Vladimir Melanin, Nikolay Mezharyakov, Valentin Pzhenitsyn)
- 1965: (Olav Jordet, Ola Wærhaug, Ivar Nordkild)
- 1989: (Juri Kashkarov, Sergei Bulygin, Alexandr Popov, Sergei Tchepikov)
- 1990: (Raik Dittrich, Mark Kirchner, Birk Anders, Frank Luck)
- 1991: (Hubert Leitgeb, Gottlieb Taschler, Simon Demetz, Wilfried Pallhuber)
- 1992: (Evgeny Redkin, Alexander Tropnikov, Anatoly Zhdanovich, Alexandr Popov)
- 1993: (Fritz Fischer, Frank Luck, Steffen Hoos, Sven Fischer)
- 1994: (Pieralberto Carrara, Hubert Leitgeb, Andreas Zingerle, Wilfried Pallhuber)
- 1995: (Frode Andresen, Dag Bjørndalen, Halvard Hanevold, Jon Åge Tyldum)
- 1996: (Oleg Ryzhenkov, Petr Ivashko, Alexandr Popov, Vadim Sashurin)
- 1997: (Oleg Ryzhenkov, Petr Ivashko, Alexandr Popov, Vadim Sashurin)
- 1998: (Egil Gjelland, Halvard Hanevold, Sylfest Glimsdal, Ole Einar Bjørndalen)
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