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Born July 17, 1963 • Jyväskylä • Finland
Died February 3, 2019 (aged 55)
Awards And Honors Winter Olympic Games
Lyubov Yegorova
Russian skier
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen
Finnish skier
Simon Ammann
Swiss ski jumper
Ulrich Wehling
German skier
Nikolay Zimyatov
Soviet skier
Eero Mäntyranta
Finnish skier
Veikko Hakulinen
Finnish skier
The greatest biathlete
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Norwegian biathlete
Yelena Vyalbe
Russian skier
Marit Bjørgen
Marit Bjørgen
Norwegian skier
Bente Skari
Norwegian skier
Manuela Di Centa
Italian skier
Vegard Ulvang
Norwegian athlete
Raisa Smetanina
Russian skier
Birger Ruud
Norwegian ski jumper
Bjørn Daehlie
Bjørn Daehlie
Norwegian skier
Galina Kulakova
Russian skier
Sixten Jernberg
Swedish skier
Toini Gustafsson
Swedish skier
Thorleif Haug
Norwegian skier

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